The Childhood Years

Bonding Moment

A father and son sharing their angling time together on their fishing boat. Fishermen in Kuantan, state capital of Pahang, Malaysia sometimes spend close to a week on the sea before returning to coast, making family time like this especially prized.

Camouflage

The tree trunk and building columns playing jokes on each other.

Lone

Singapore, Singapore

This is Singapore's skyline on an evening, as seen from Sheares Bridge. It's the same day where I took this and this picture. As it was a Sunday when this picture was took, the office buildings in the central business district were not as brightly lit as one would expect.

Together with my other panaromic pictures, this picture can be found in my Panaroma Gallery on pbase.

Serendipity

Took this picture on a Sunday afternoon when having coffee alone. Had a mental picture that this picture will express the tranquility of that moment. Sontag's On Photography seems to be my companion for most of these lazy afternoons.

She wrote, I quote: "Unlike the fine-art objects of pre-democratic eras, photographs don't seem deeply beholden to the intentions of an artist. Rather, they owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject - mediated by an ever simpler and more automated machie, which is tireless, and which even when capricious can produce a result that is interesting and never entirely wrong."

But how often are 'good' pictures results of conscious planning? I will be glad if I can say for sure that half of my good pictures are perfect executions of my visualization than mere luck. Serendipity should never be the compensation for inexperience and incompetence, I reckon!

Perfect Compositions

I was savoring a quiet moment on Sheares Bridge, watching sunset and reading. Susan Sontag wrote, in her famous photography essays, On Photography:

"Where as painter, according to (Edward) Weston, has always "tried to improve nature by self-imposition," the photographer has "proved that nature offers an endless number of perfect 'compositions,' - order everywhere." "

What is your philosophy in taking (or making) a photograph?

View in a View

I was waiting for the ‘perfect moment’ of sunset, and then it suddenly strikes me: why don’t I take a picture of my viewfinder. Nothing fancy or technically fantastic, but thought it depicts what I was doing and evinces a somewhat surreal feeling.