A period where everyone will presumes everyone is busy

It’s been a month of not taking pictures. I think I’m having some withdrawals syndromes, but yet, I have no shoot book for this month, and it’s just been a “busy” month for various events. The new year clock just got rebooted to a cool spanking “2″ symbol, and as the mood of the resolutions seems to be shunted, Chinese New Year seems to be around the corner. Everyone seems to either be in a mad dash to clear up whatever outstanding works they have, or are dead bored doing nothing. Either way, it’s not a good time to plan for anything, especially photo-shooting where there would be a one-few-many people involve.

Next after that is the compulsory 15-days I’m not going to bother disturbing people CNY festival period. This will then be followed up by Valentine Day on 14th Feb, which I automatically presume that people will require at least another week of thinking what to do to surprise one loved ones. Next up would be my ROM, which I then presume I will require at least 1 week pre-ROM to prepare for any outstanding issues and another 1 week post-ROM to finally absorb and realised that I’m actually MARRIED!

So where’s to find the time to shoot?? Gosh oh gosh, just like many holidays in-between, I think real work will eventually start after 3rd of March 2012! I’ve got one small shoot just before that, and until then, nothing else can be scheduled, because I would presume everyone would be thinking of the same thought that everyone presumes everyone is busy! So guess I’ll just go with the flow, study up on my next photography project, and when “work” starts again, it’s going to be a hell of a ride!!

Have a great Chinese New Year and a great Valentine’s day! :)

Resolution of ReEvolvelution?

So it’s been 8 days since the New Year has passed. I’m feeling refreshed from all the photo shoots back in 2011, and I’m still trying to figure out how some people can do it for a living. Guess if it pays you well enough, tiredness is just part of the equation. So what have I been doing? I’ve been researching lots on creative lighting, and how to shoot indoor/outdoor portrait, and answer the first simple question. Do I actually need lighting? Is one source of light enough? Maybe one strobe is good enough? Yet, no matter how much I study, I would never be able to come up with the answer, until yes, you get down and dirty and try it for yourself. So the answer to that pondering will have to wait, and so in the mean-time, it’s back to video reviews + clips + you know, all the “boring” learning stuff.

So moving on, while that is set in motion, many people as of late that I’ve been talking to, no guesses for correctness, is that they ask the standard few questions. (1) How was the Christmas / New Year celebration. (2) What is your resolution for 2012. It’s like when the season changes, the common questions needs to change with the time, and if all else fails, just proceed with (3) How are you today?

Resolution, hmmm, I use to have a few. It used to be quite definitive. Like buy a car. Start a business. Start a photography fan page. Travel 4 destinations this year. All which I did follow on btw, because it’s so much easier then just ONE big one like lose weight. So what’s this year’s resolution? For me, this year, it all ends. The world’s coming to an end as well ain’t it? Well, not quite, I tried to think what would be the absolute thing that I want to achieve this year, but seriously it reveals blank.

For me, I would say the foundation of many thing’s have been laid out. Now it’s the journey. The growth of my platform. To grow in each area more then I did last year. This namely is in the sense of (1) Relationship, (2) Work, (3) Passion. Guess there’s no fix target, but more of a ReEvovlelution…what? Repeat. Re – Evolve – Resolution. To revamp my thought process, evolve and to cement my past resolution even further. To continue what I’ve started, rather then make new goals, and to improve one and each segment of my life.

I’ve started a business; then make more

I’ve started a photography page; then learn more

I’ve started to exercise more; then continue being healthy

I’ve started to play StarCraft II; to past the time, useless hobby

I’ve started a relationship; get married and be jolly

So you can see. I don’t have any resolution this year, it’s really a ReEvolvelution of past resolutions :)

So what’s your resolution?

2012 started with a lull

So 2011 came and gone, and we welcome 2012. I would have love to say that 2012 started with a bang! & also lots of bing-bung-bong in the sky (you know fireworks), but it didn’t this time of a year. I was up in the highlands to enjoy the cool weather and usher in the new year, and only to be reminded, that just like my photography year, everything in nature is subjected to the destiny of our mother. Just like how many things in life are really out of our hands, so is our chances in our lives.

Someday’s we have a good day, and someday’s it’s hazy and everything thing’s seems to be shrouded by thick vapor. However, never give up, there’s always some light shining out of the window, and while I have my camera all set up for the big fiesta, you just go to take whatever opportunity that comes your way, and make the best out of it.

So here’s the shot that didn’t end up with a bang for my 2012 celebration, but I guess my moral of the story is, that “not everything goes your way, and sometimes under thick haze, look at the light that is shining through”

Will be back with more new techniques that I hope to pick up for 2012, as I will actively be trying to shoot indoors + some outdoors with some new lighting gears :)

Old is Gold – Final Post for 2011 (final encore)

Everyone loves a part II right, especially if always stated as the final? Finals finals are always a little nice to cap off with, like a nice little rolling credits after the finishing movie filled with trailers and teasers of what is yet to come. Like an encore after the end of the concert.

This is my version as I sign of for the year 2011, and prepare to usher in the year 2012. It has been a fabulous photography year and hopefully many many more shoots to come. For those who follow my blog, TQ and I do hope you can support my efforts by clicking the “like” on my FB photography page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ban-Eu-Photography/128691673847250. It would mean a lot to me!

Happy New Year, god bless, and let’s party!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old is Gold – Final Post for 2011

Old is gold. Remember the past in order to build a stronger future as the roots of the before becomes the seeds of tomorrow. We should always remember what has been given, in order to give. Where we were born, the beginning, the start, a moment of revelation of first sight. Where you are part of history, a speck in the continum of time, a mark in the world, a history, a belonging. You are the now, the before and the tomorrow.

 

 

 

This concludes the last post for the year, which as random as it sounds, I wasn’t expecting to get any shots when I went balik “kampung” to Teluk Intan. Reminiscent lighted up, as I was amazed on how nature actually takes times to craft art of existing living object, making everyday things, looks amazingly extraordinary after a period of time.

Concept 2012

Something new is brewing for 2012 photoshoot.

2011 has been a great year, and I’ve learned a lot as a photograph, an artist, and as a person. Thanks to all those who have volunteered & also contributed to charity. You’ve touched and changed many people’s life forever.

The best benefit of any journey is the knowledge that you gain along the way. 2012 will be new beginning, yet at the same time, the continuation of a lifelong journey of passion. 2012 will challenge a new shooting style, a new technique, a new unique perspective.

My new 2012 photoshoot concept will be unwield soon. Those who are interested to participate, do email me at baneuphotography@gmail.com. It will be something interesting. Stay tuned :)

Year 2011 ~ the ONE that has inspired me.. (part II)

Finally finished most of my backlog pictures, as I was on a travelling, photography, portrait + pre-wedding “volunteer for charity” photo shoot spree. It’s been a great year of learning, of experience, and pursuing my little voice of photography. As they say, it’s always best for a real-life experience of taking pictures, then trying to learn everything from book. Digital memory is “free”, make use of it, the more you shoot, the more your shots shoots. Learn from life lessons. Experience shoots first hand. I’m glad I did.

Here’s to a great 2011 year + hopefully many many more photography journey to venture into. With this I bid a big thank you to 2011, and the ONE that has inspired me. The month is still early to celebrate a countdown, so I do hope there’s still a bit more juice for me to squeeze out some more shoot.

Here’s to part I (http://ringgitandsense.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/year-2011-the-one-that-has-inspired-me/)

Year 2011 ~ the ONE that has inspired me..

Year 2011 is coming to an end. As I consolidate the experiences that I’ve picked up as a photographer of the last 12 months, I came to grow through many people and lesson’s that has touched my life. Thanks to those who has volunteered, and ushered me to pursue my passion, and thanks to the ONE that has inspired me through my entire journey.

The story has yet to end, it has only just begin. 2012 will be another chapter, and I hope that I would be able to pursue this form of art, as it inspires me to greater heights. May this beautiful story never ends, and continue sing to me a lullaby of creativity as I bid farewell to 2011…

Seeing through one’s eyes…

They say a pictures speaks a thousand words, but an eye, speaks a thousand emotions. I’m not very much a street photography type of person, choosing mostly to take pictures of objects, landscape or people who allows me to take pictures of them. Street photography on the other hand, is always by random, as I haven’t quite gotten use to having a stranger look at me, as I would look at them. However, I do know now why some people just fall in love with this kind of shot…

It’s the raw emotion, the moment of spontaneity, the freeze of the moment. Capturing the one singular shot, that makes every stare a musical symphony, or sounds of thunder, or even the soft plea of a cry. I chanced upon on of this shots when I was in Hanoi, and with one lens staring down at the hardship of one’s life, I get 2 staring back at me, filling my lens with a little sorrow, and in defensive fashion, an eye of survival, a way of life, a moment of real emotional truth…

Everyone writes their own fate

I walked into an empty white room and wondered what the artist wondered.

With it’s open un-written books, and white washed book covers, everything was right, but yet it was wrong.

It was empty, a void. It was like a script waiting to be written.

An interpretative of your very own cognitive imagination.

You see what you want to see, and yet, to some it’s a blank piece of white.

It’s the future, the present and the past.

It’s your revelation of your mind warped into a continuum of wandering thoughts.

There is no right, and there is no wrong.

Destiny of your sort, written in a way, only you can interpret.

You fate, as it’s written in your hearts if the living around you.