Aperture

Snapshots

2007-12-12T22:21:00.000+11:00

Test run with the Canon 5D. This baby is old tech - but delivers wonderfully smooth tonality and rich colours... yumm! From the crazy people at Connect:

Michelle & Sim Lan

The two absolutely crazy girls!

Family Snap

Girl Snap

Pauline and Michelle

At play

Silly face - Dinner at Citrus

Our newly engaged couple!

Reenacting the moment

The 5C's examined!

Jonlet wondering...

Henley Beach

2007-11-29T00:30:00.000+11:00

Henley Beach last weekend after church on Sunday... making the best out of a rare two day weekend. Just north of ever-crowded Glenelg, I think I found a new hang out spot.

Jetty at Sunset

B+W

SW's - a far better eye than mine!

Colours of Sunset

A few partners in crime... hope you made it to work the next day ;)

Eve - in her classic candid camera pose!

Mug shot Jenssen

SW

Jon - O

NZ: Christchurch and LOTR tour

2007-11-18T12:57:00.000+11:00

The last of NZ installments...

LOTR - Location of Edoras (Kingdom of Rohan) by river

LOTR - Location of Edoras

LOTR - View from Edoras location

LOTR - Location of Helms Deep

Christchurch Cathedral

Christchurch Cathedral at night during the opening of Christchurch Arts Festival

Old Shops

Christchurch

NZ More Queenstown & Road to Christchurch

2007-10-20T10:10:00.000+10:00

Apologies for the lack of updates. Blame work! Nevertheless better late than never:

Snowboarding @ The Remarkables

Road down from the Remarkables - very LOTR isque

Road down from the Remarkables 2. We were racing down the slopes for the last 2 shots to make sure we got enough time to photograph - yet prevent the tour buses behind our rental from overtaking us.

Arrowtown - a small town originating from Chinese settlers who came down to NZ ages ago to mine for gold.

Road to Mount Cook - Turquoise Lake, from melting glaciers. Alas - no photos from Mt. Cook. It was fogged up and raining heavily when we arrived. Not to mention the 'Avalanche - Imminent' warning.

Rocky lake-front

Church by Lake Tekopa - One of my favourite shots of the entire trip. Looks almost painting-like.

NZ Day 5 - 7: Queenstown

2007-08-26T22:45:00.000+10:00

Queenstown is a beautiful town by Lake Wakatipu - one of NZ's largest lakes. Known as the 'Activities Center' it boasts 6 ski fields, and hosts bungee jumping, whitewater rafting and water sports. To add to the list - there is no shortage of retail shops, restaurants, pubs and clubs - set amidst 1000 hectares of vineyards. Unsurprisingly - the place was abuzz mainly with the younger tourist from as far as Europe and the USA - out to experience winter in the middle of the year. In Singaporean speak... 'damn happening'.

Every night was a virtual party - 20 somethings fresh from the ski-fields dancing away at nightclubs and queuing up at 24hour burger stands for a late snack, before retiring - half drunk - no less to the many hostels and motels before hitting fresh powder the next morning. Such is life...

Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu by late sunset

Queenstown Mall

Queenstown at night - ski lifts in the far distance.

Queenstown from The Remarkables

And did I mention that the food here was beyond excellent - albeit expensive? The food is deserving of a post of its own.

NZ Day 4: Milford Sound

2007-08-22T01:20:00.000+10:00

After stomping about the glaciers and our photo frenzy around Lake Matherson - we set off to Queenstown. Now, the original plan was to drive to Milford Sound (some 700km - off my head) overnight - as we did not have accommodation booked. But reports that the roads were iced over dampened our resolve to drive through the night. Instead we decided to head on to Queenstown ala 'Activities Capital' - find accommodation there and follow a tour to Milford Sound - let someone else do the treacherous driving.

In typical fashion - everywhere was completely booked out - no surprise being peak season for skiing. We did indeed sleep (or tried) in the car - unaided at all by the occasional drunk dude stammering away in the night and the -1 degree temperature outside (and almost definitely inside the car).

The risk avoiding behavior (saving it for the bungee jump - yeah right!!) turned out to be a great decision. I was secretly glad that I did not have to drive the 800km return trip from Queenstown to Milford Sound and took the opportunity to catch up on much needed sleep. Plus the roads were REALLY iced up. There were accidents that day and at least one tour company canceled their program because their buses were not equipped to deal with the black ice.

From the trip:

Frozen Bush - photographed by the road side during a break on our 5 hour ride to MS.

Valley to Milford Sound - Mid Morning

Milford Sound is a fjord i.e. a valley submerged by sea as a result of glacier eroding the valley floor to below todays sea level.

Milford Sound

Mountain by Milford Sound

Milford Sound by Cruise

Rock Formations - Look hard and you will notice seals. There were dolphins too (not pictured).

Waterfall - Mountain to Sea

Waterfall - Close up.

Milford Sound may be 5 hours to nowhere from Queenstown - but an absolute must if you haven't been!

Lake Matherson

2007-08-18T10:12:00.000+10:00

If a picture could ever speak a thousand words - I'd choose this photograph to summarize how wickedly beautiful South Island is.

Silent Reflections... in a thousand words.

NZ Day 3: Glacier Hiking

2007-08-13T22:08:00.000+10:00

I just realised how 'blue' this post is going to look. Anyway to continue from our frosty morning - it actually cleared up to become what may be the clearest winter day for us yet! This morning - we were to glacier hike around Fox Glacier ('explore' is a more apt word) - but we will let it rest, in the name of commercialism!

Our ride!! First time in a chopper for me - and they are not exaggerating when they cautioned us about the wind created by the props!

Fox Glacier from the helicopter. Having a big camera gets you up in front with the pilot!

To give you an idea of how big the glacier is... look right into the middle of the photograph. Draw a line right down... see that dot? Thats this:

5 small tiny people!

B+W Hike Formation

Glacier structure - created by streams from melting ice. Notice the blue here - and the turquoise river from the last post! Know why now?

Glacier Sunrise - One of my favorite photographs

Self portrait

Glacier Formations

More Glacier Formations

Group shot!

Most important equipment - Spikes

They go on like this!!

Ride home - absolutely love this shot! Had to stand my ground against flying ice and stone chips to take this shot...

BTW I will be working ALL week - so no updates until I get some off time, hopefully end of this week or so. And it's likely going to be the 'or so' bit. But there's more than enough photographs to entertain you for now!

NZ Day 2 & 3

2007-08-09T22:55:00.000+10:00

Quick filler in between all the nice photos. BTW contrary to popular belief, not all the photos came out great! I use about 5-10% of the photos as 'keepers'. The rest like many of these below make up a snapshot documentary of the trip.

After white water rafting - that came about to be a tad easier than what we'd expect (less water during winter and thus slower rapids) we proceeded to drive on to Fox Glacier (see map below), our second Kiwi stop. On the way we saw this:

Turquoise River - from the melting glaciers. Apparently certain minerals that wash with the ice create this gorgeous colour.

One way bridges - pretty much ALL bridges in South Island. Wondering what the deal is!? How much more would it cost to make the bridges 2-way? Thankfully most drivers give way. I can only imagine the riot this will cause back in Malaysia.

Town of Franz Josef about an hour and a half from Fox.

Frost. Next morning we dragged our sorry selves out of bed early to shoot (or rather I dragged poor Andrew out of bed to shoot). An idea of how cold it was out there. BTW our car was so frozen over we had to pour boiling water over to defrost our windscreen.

Outside Lake Matherson Cafe for breakfast. Cold breakfast anyone?

Sub-zero morning. Feeling lucky that I am not a tree of some sort here ;)If you look hard enough, notice that the bushes in the foreground are iced over.

Map modified from tourism.net.nz

NZ Day 2 (morning)

2007-08-06T09:15:00.000+10:00

Next morning, we woke up especially early. The original plan was to have a lazy morning and head up to the white water rafting meeting point in town at 9am. However - the owner of the motel we bunked over insisted that we make the 45min drive (that was so not going to happen with our Ford) to Punakaiki (map right below) to see the 'Pancake Rocks'.

So we thought... ah what the heck and woke up ultra early to take the photos needed, return to the motel to check out and be at the white water rafting centre at 9am... When we reached Punakaiki at dawn we were just in awe of the view. There is absolutely something magical about sunrise!

Pancake Rocks by Dawn

Blow Hole

Dawn by Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki (remastered)

Map modified from tourism.net.nz

Coming up... no photographs from rafting! Was just not keen to see my camera float around in the rapids. But the drive to Fox Glacier was absolutely magic... Photos in a few days!

NZ Day 1

2007-08-03T12:34:00.000+10:00

Landed in Christchurch that has possibly one of the oldest looking airports I have seen in a while. Come to think of it - it looks remarkably similar to the airport in Kenya. Picked up our rental (Ford Mondeo 2.0L Automatic) a terribly underpowered car and drove from Christchurch straight to Greymouth via Arthur's Pass. Follow the red line in the map right below!! You will notice that we essentially crossed South Island through a series of mountain passes.

We (Andrew & myself) landed at approximately 3pm local time. Needless to say - being mid winter, we essentially drove in the dark. The terrain rapidly changed from dry fields and lakes (not unlike country Victoria) to alpine mountains and icy roads as we drove through the mountains. A few shots:

Wild flower with Alpine Mountain background.

Semi-Frozen Lake

About the last photograph... it was literally pitch black as we drove through a region of lakes. The photographer in me was determined to take at least a few photographs from this part of the journey. I dragged Andrew into -1 degree temperature to help me take this shot. It was so dark that I had to get Andrew to shine the torch around to help me compose the picture. In addition, I only noticed that part of the lake was frozen on the camera LCD as I literally could not see the ice in the darkness.

Map modified from tourism.net.nz

We arrived at Greymouth - and lost count of the number of times our underpowered Ford was overtaken by fully laden lorries - late evening.

NZ - South Island

2007-07-31T23:58:00.000+10:00

Just returned from 10 days of snowboarding fun, glacial hikes and white water rafting around New Zealand's South Island. A big boy's playground and a visual feast. Photos to come over the next few days/weeks depending on how much 'fun' I am having at work. Can anybody remind me of what my work computer password is again??!! Bummer. Sneak preview...

Dawn by Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki

We woke up at an unbelievable 6am (whilst on holiday mind you!!) to drive an hour just to see this before turning back for white water rafting at 9am.

Ashley & Angie's Wedding Dec 06

2007-07-13T11:38:00.000+10:00

Long overdue post - partially because I just received a few (not even all...) of the photos that were taken on that day. Most photographs taken by Gideon, Shawn Low or myself. Gorgeous beach wedding, the day could not get more windy! But more importantly a celebration of commitment of 2 wonderful people.

Calm before the wedding.

Boys in prayer

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The girls arrive!

Processional.

The couple share a moment.

Solemn vows.

Wide angle view.

Serious stuff.

Serious stuff 2

This is part one of ... well a few parts. Will post each time I find some time to work on the photographs! Photographs can be downloaded in full size from Zenfolio.

50th post - Tim & Vera engaged!!

2007-06-09T13:55:00.001+10:00

So the gang drove up to Lorne!! Yes Vera... just and only for you! Setting up candles, dinner and flowers.

Check out the cupcakes that the girls prepared. Expert!

And the marvelous greens.

But what is a party without ten dozen fresh oysters? Admittedly the Kilpatrick was fantabulous as well!

Yuppp... all 120 oysters. The most impressive thing was that nothing disappeared on the way up from Melbourne.

And check out the superb 'Beach house' that TK rented for the weekend for Vera! Key thing to note and buy in the future - a fireplace!

Alternate view.

Alternative alternate view. ;)

But really... check out THE VIEW!! 6 second shot without tripod. View by moonlight.

The couple

Gorgeous Vera!

Very expensive stone there!

The next morning when all is said and done - look who came by to visit (again!). Kookaburras.

Showing off!!

As usual all photos (and a few more!) available from download in full size glory from Zenfolio.

Last Weekend

2007-06-08T12:38:00.000+10:00

The reason I came back to Melbourne last weekend... Check this space soon.

Candle Light.

An's 21st with Life Kids - The Morning After!

2007-06-01T06:14:00.000+10:00

The day after Ann's all pink bash - the Life Kids celebrated Ann's as well as Steve's birthday. Keeping things simple - we brought the kids to McD's at RCH where we could literally spoil them with Happy Meals and let them romp about the play equipment. Jesse and Andrew - kids at heart - wasted no time in checking out the play equipment and managed to get stuck in the 'Under 3's only' section. Wonder why they added the age cap there... hmm. Love you team! We're blessed to have amazingly gorgeous kids to love and lead.

All Princess

David

Jesse - 'Under 3'

Red & Blue

All Princess 2

Ann & Kids

Ann & SJ

Team Leaders

Gracey & Ann

SJ & Ives

These photos and more can be downloaded from zenfolio.

Ann's 21st Birthday Part 2 - Hidden Surprises

2007-05-27T20:10:00.001+10:00

Apologies!! Missed out a couple of photographs. Blame it on photobucket hiding them in 'page 2'. Exactly... it's not my fault! All of the photos below are now available on zenfolio.

Ann's 21st Birthday Part 2

2007-05-25T16:21:00.000+10:00

People photographs!! A sprinkling of photos from Ann's 21st. Photos are available for download in FULL from http://joshualin.zenfolio.com

Still trying to see if Zenfolio helps with photograph distribution - so leave me feedback about this website. Subscription costs USD25 per year and I want to be certain that it works for you before I use it full time! In no particular order (all of you are beautiful!)

Ann's 21st Birthday Part 1

2007-05-22T17:18:00.001+10:00

Celebrated Ann's 21st over the weekend at Harbour Kitchen, Docklands. A few photographs from last Saturday evening. For Ann!

L' Ambient 1

L' Ambient 2

Birthday Girl ... in pink no less!

Birthday Cake in more pink! Made by Jesse to perfection.

Gift 1

Gift 2

People photographs coming up in a couple of days...

McLaren Vale

2007-05-14T20:46:00.000+10:00

McLaren Vale - a lesser known wine producing region south of Adelaide, famous for its amazing Shirazes. But being on tour with colleagues meant more wine tasting and less photography time. A nearby beach - Aldinga beach will warrant a return visit. It's beautiful for its (relative) remoteness and an old jetty that is undeniably simply gorgeous to photograph. But enough talk - a few favorites:

Pre-warning: Somehow the pictures may not appear on Firefox.

Pink

Vines

Vines with McLaren Vale in background

Cracked bench
Random shot whilst bored that turned out pretty well.

Modern Windmill

Aldinga Beach by sunset - delightfully beautiful!

Aldinga Beach by sunset - alternate view.

Carpark Fence at Sunset

Fence Detail at Sunset

Easter Weekend - TK, Vera and Ai-Ling romp Adelaide

2007-05-04T04:32:00.000+10:00

Long overdue post! Blame it on work (yupp... weekends as well), a peer to peer presentation I have to prepare, and Edge Kids!! I am busy from the moment I am up at 5 a.m. till I inevitably nod off from sheer exhaustion at 9 p.m. Student life is downright gorgeous in comparison. I find it ridiculous that I have to take half day leave just to harass the post office and bank ;)

Anywayyy... excuses aside. TK, Vera and (surprise!) Ai-Ling came by rural town Adelaide (or city... whatever you want to call it) over the Easter Weekend (that's how overdue this post is). Adelaide had never been this fun!

Farmer's Market - Barossa Valley

Jacob's Creek - Barossa Valley.
TK and Vera a tad too happy. Mind you this was before any wine tasting.

Waiting for lunch (a short hour after breakfast) at Jacob's Creek. Vera very amused by my lens hood. Still before any wine.

Uh right!
On a different note - there is absolutely no better way to enjoy the weekend but with gorgeous friends on a lazy afternoon, sipping sparkly paired with dessert and a cheese platter whilst listening to jazz, outdoors and overlooking gorgeous vineyards.

Rabbit Fence with Barossa Valley background

Reflections - Lake at Maggie Beer
www.maggiebeer.com.au

Reflections 2 - Lake at Maggie Beer by sunset

Seafood at Glenelg.
Especially for Ashley 'The Man' Ang and Angie who missed out!

Reminiscing

2007-04-21T23:27:00.000+10:00

New effect that I am trying out in photoshop. Check out the original photograph of Glenelg a few posts down.

Glenelg in B&W

Mount Lofty, Adelaide

2007-04-14T20:00:00.000+10:00

Monday afternoon after Easter Sunday, a few friends from Edge decided to show me Mount Lofty, Adelaide's highest peak in Adelaide Hills, as well as its absolutely gorgeous botanical gardens. A few of my favorite photographs:

Autumn Leaf

Path in Mono

Acorns in Macro

Then they decided to model for the camera:

Adiemus & Debbie

Adiemus & Debbie 2

Candid Moment

Debs

Mount Lofty Summit at Sunset

Coming next: TK, Vera and Ailing romp Adelaide :)

Adelaide Friends

2007-04-03T07:06:00.000+10:00

Meet a few people I have got to known up here in Adelaide. Photos taken at a house-warming/birthday party I attended recently.

Birthday Cake (ultrawide shot)

Group Photograph. Harrison (in dark olive jacket, sitting far right) owns the house.

Michelle - Harisson's absolutely gorgeous 3 year old!

More Adelaide

2007-03-19T22:39:00.000+11:00

What better excuse to take time off work (all of one entire week) to explore Adelaide when mum came down!? A few snapshots:

Glenelg, the St. Kilda/Chapel Street fusion that is probably the most happening beach spot in South Australia.

Alternate view of Glenelg from the jetty.

Hahndorf - a German settlement south of Adelaide. No decent photographs, so the food (and beer!!) would have to do. Sauerkraut and bratwurst galore! Oh... and that's mum!

And the Hahndorf settlement is so remote - this is the public bus.
Kidding! Some really old horse cart by traditional German cottage.

What else is there to do in Hahndorf? One hint above.

Hint. Hint. Hint.

Absolutely wicked time to go strawberry picking (at least to mum).

Ha! Summer strawberries in gorgeous red!

Abode

2007-03-14T14:54:00.000+11:00

verb:
A past tense and a past participle of abide.

noun:
1. A dwelling place; a home.
2. The act of abiding; a sojourn.
[Middle English abod, home, from abiden, to wait; see abide.]

picture:

Home in Adelaide

Pause

2007-01-25T01:11:00.000+11:00

Hey all, temporary pause till I settle in Adelaide (find a house and get internet connection). Check back in about 2 weeks.

Wei Lun's Graduation

2006-12-20T21:37:00.000+11:00

A select few portrait photographs, from my cousin Wei Lun's graduation. Photographs taken at Carlton Gardens.

Wei Lun

Uncle Teck Chye with Jasmine

Uncle Teck Chye and Wei Lun

Aunt Diana with Jasmine

Wei Lun 2

Family Portrait 1

Uncle Teck Chye & Aunt Diana

Family Candid

Julius & Joyce's Wedding Part 4: Reception

2006-12-11T12:43:00.000+11:00

The last of the wedding photos. Apologies for the delay.

The Dance

Cake Cutting

Exit

SMART Getaway

Mega Group Photograph

Rings

Church

Joyce & Doreen

Finally Married

Graduation

2006-12-05T19:13:00.000+11:00

After 6 very long years - albeit enriching and very fun ones, the university actually saw it fit to graduate me (gasp!! horror of horrors - poor patients etc.) But on a more sombre note - it has been a loosely guarded secret that mortality rates within hospitals do rise during the initial few months where junior staff (doctors & nurses alike) are recruited.

On something less morbid - it's been crazy around here with showing parents around, applying for new visa, applying for Medical Registration in South Australia, looking for new accommodation, applying for a Medicare Provider Number, endless Police Checks (seriously do I look THAT bad!!??), and hiring movers to move my stuff... and so many more whilst planning a certain person's bucks night. Sigh!

Since I am still ranting - my movers quoted me this: AUD 2109 to move my stuff from my apartment in Carlton to Bedford Park in South Australia. But I forgot to inform them that my apartment is on the first floor with no lift access. Modified quote: AUD 3100. Seriously... AUD 2100 to move to Adelaide I can accept, AUD 1000 to move things down 1 floor is silly. Still the hospital is paying for this...

Back to photos (Thanks Gids - for this week and last, and whoever was playing with my camera!!!). So for ONCE - it's ALL about me, me, me. But so wierd to be on the other side of the camera:

One for the record. No fake degrees off the internet here. AUD 90000 for each slip of paper (based on school fees). For the inquisitive one - I have a parchment for my MBBS and another for Biomedical Science.

My parents - whom I officially bankrupted over the last few years ;)

Again with them plus my cousin who is graduating from RMIT next week in Logistics Management.

Random South Lawn snapshot

Huwaaaah!! With Jack who is down for my graduation plus Ash's wedding, Ash & Sean

My homies - Abela and TK 'The Apologetics'

Yuchun and Sophia

Julius and Joyce

Natalie who graduated Medicine - Monash on Thursday, and Tami who graduated Dentistry - Melbourne University the same day itself.

Ailing - the bestest sister and senior you could have. Thank you for 6 years of notes, encouragement, and help with work esp. the Year 3 assignment (shivers down my spine right now).

With the boys.

With the girls.

Big group shot!!

There are still a few more photos e.g. with Life Kids, Joy and Terence, Keryn and Joseph, Ash and Ange, Audrey and Andy that I am still working on. The photos are sort of more difficult to work on because of glare. Thanks so much all - for everyone who embraced me as family during the last few years!

Sunday Snapshots

2006-11-29T18:30:00.000+11:00

Last Sunday, we celebrated the last day of Life Kids in 2006. The team decided on an 'in-cursion' as opposed to our usual excursions. Let the snapshots tell the story:

Briefing time! This is just immediately after Life TV, and we're all on the 10th floor of Arrow Heights. The children would each receive coupons, redeemable for games - on successfully recalling memory verses from last week.

So the boys (in predictable fashion - including the big boys) went straight to Halo 2 in all its full gore.

And the girls tried out singing...

... and para para dancing.

All was well until Andrew and Tze Shin decided that they would have a singing match...

... and were still at it half an hour later ;p

Soon after - realizing that the kids needed a good workout, we moved them all outside. Here we see them try to beat each other in getting submerged fruit out of a bowl using only their mouths (look ma.... no hands!!). Let us watch David, one of our kids play:

'Uh oh...'

'Here goes nothing...'

'Bummer, this is harder than I thought'.

Then with faces still dripping wet, we had them look for candy hidden in flour (very very messy).

Krystal - who is a great sport, decided to have a go!

Very very smart girl too!!

Still got messed up anyhow.... ;p

Right... MESSY!!

And as a bonus - any unused coupons would be redeemable for water balloons to pelt Ivy (who is such a great sport!!). All was well until...

... the leaders realized that they were extra water balloons (so why not have a go at Ivy too!!??)

First Ivy got really really wet...

Then they realized - 'Hey!! Why isn't Josh standing there as well?'. Here is where I go: 'Uh oh...'. Since they were no more water balloons, the boys (and Ivy) decided that the bowls we used for the previous competition (to grab fruit) would have to suffice!

Bleh!

Water fight aftermath.

Then we spent time in prayer - here the team was praying for me, for the year ahead in Adelaide.

Then we celebrated Michy's, Chris Chan and Christine Chew's Birthday.

The compulsory group photo (with David absolutely having fun with his food).

HDR Photograph

2006-11-27T09:26:00.000+11:00

Still working on Julius and Joyce's wedding photographs. Meantime, on the weekend I re-photographed a previous shot. A HDR Photograph (High Dynamic Range) is made up of many photographs superimposed. The resulting picture is richer in colour and solves the problem of shadowing (e.g. if the sky is very much brighter than the foreground).

I am still learning this process - and this photograph (created using 9 shots) is not the very best - but here goes:

Melbourne by Sunset HDR

Picture-less Update

2006-11-16T17:48:00.000+11:00

2 papers down. 1 OSCE (An examination of various short clinical problems) and the dreaded Long Case (Examination of one complex clinical problem and management issues with a viva to boot!) completed.

Praise God for 'acute pancreatitis' (uh... I don't have it!). But my Long Case patient does - and thank God because I just spent an evening recently holed up at McDonald's discussing the very 'acute pancreatitis' with a colleague. Needless to say - I walked out of the examination room beaming - and very thankful she does not have Leukemia (that I only studied all of 3 minutes on) or Sjogren's Syndrome or Steroid overdose or Pott's Disease or any mambo jumbo that I cannot pronounce or spell. BTW if you think you have any of the above mentioned problems in the future... see another doctor.

1 OSCE left tomorrow at the Austin - and that's it! NO MORE exams, nada, zilch. Free man, graduate... no more studying (yeah right!), you get the drift.

So till then - apologies for the lack of updates! Unless you want to see photographs of exam pape... (oooh... shouldn't have mentioned it... shhhh....)

Julius & Joyce's Wedding Part 3: Church

2006-11-06T02:00:00.000+11:00

A few hand picked photographs from the church ceremony. I am very pleased with a new effect I learnt: 'Glow'. Check it out in the pictures entitled 'Gorgeous little church' and 'Hands'. Julius and Joyce's wedding reflected the couple's personality brilliantly.

Gorgeous little church

Lucas - the absolutely adorable ring bearer

Julius with groomsmen

Processional

Hands

Proceedings

The Signature

Marriage Certificate

'Just Married'

Julius & Joyce's Wedding Part 2: Gaining Entry

2006-11-04T01:35:00.000+11:00

The boys arrive, the girls look on.

The boys attempt to serenade the girls... who remain unimpressed.

The girls have Julius enjoy 'Tang Yuen' - filled with Wasabi (no less!!)

But the boys still have to buy their way in...

Credit cards - Joanne and Ivy anticipating a shopping trip later on!

The hard and very painful effort pays off.
Photo taken by Shawn Low

Julius & Joyce's Wedding Part 1: Preparing

2006-10-25T23:11:00.000+10:00

Julius & Joyce were married a week after Gideon and Sue. In the wee hours of the morning, the boys calmly arrived at Julius' fully dressed up and prepared (and not leaving much to photograph). In sharp contrast, the atmosphere at Joyce's was an unrelenting urgency...

Tools of the trade
Photo taken by Shawn Low, edited by Josh Lin

Make up
Photo taken by Shawn Low, edited by Josh Lin

Hair
Photo taken by Shawn Low, edited by Josh Lin

Veil
Photo taken by Shawn Low, edited by Josh Lin

Final Touches
Photo taken by Shawn Low, edited by Josh Lin

Bridesmaid: Sue Lee

Bridesmaid: Joan

Tradition: Wearing the coat

Gideon & Sue's Wedding Part 5: A Celebration of Events

2006-10-21T09:39:00.000+10:00

The final series from Gideon and Sue's wedding. The wedding is one that I consider amongst the most beautiful this year. I enjoyed myself tremendously at the chance to share life on top of the oppurtunity to photograph it. Some of the photographs in this series are my very favourite of the day. Do enjoy these photos as much as I loved taking them.

The Kiss in black and white

The Kiss

Chocolate Heaven

Sharing

The Toast
Photo taken by Shawn Low, edited by Josh Lin

Enthralled
Photo taken by Shawn Low

Wedding cake

Bouquet

First Dance

Dancing the night

Dance Floor

Pau-Ling with the moves

After Party with the boys

Julius' and Joyce's wedding (30th September)coming up. 88 photographs selected, 86 more to edit, 3 exam papers (finals!!!) starting in 3 weeks. So be patient - but they will eventually be put up, albeit slowly over the next few weeks. Feel free to ask me for a full sized copy of any of these photographs.

Gideon & Sue's Wedding Part 4: Evening Glamour

2006-10-18T19:57:00.000+10:00

Gideon & Sue

With Sophia & Yuchun

Ng Family

Chan Family

Yennie, Cheryl & Joy

Seeing Red (Joy & Alan)

Keryn, Angie & Jody

Sue with mum & sister (maid of honour) Pau-Ling

Just dad

Gideon & Sue's Wedding Part 3: L'ambiance

2006-10-16T22:51:00.000+10:00

Photographs from the Grand Hyatt, Melbourne.

VIP Table

VIP Table - alternate view

Table decor

20 photographs to be uplaoded soon. Photobucket is way slowwww... because the likes of Joy, Vera and Ivy are uploading photos from the absolutely stunning Women's Conference.

Gideon & Sue's Wedding Part 2: Church Candids

2006-10-14T10:03:00.000+10:00

A compilation of random photographs. People. Candids. Groups.

Gideon - in anticipation

Andy & Audrey

Soph, Ange, Audrey, Chris, Keryn, Vera & Saz. All beautiful in every way.

Great friends Keryn & Angie with yours truly (in probably the only photograph of myself throughout the day)
Photo taken by Audrey

Sue, Jo, Chris 'Family First' Willis and Cheryl

TK, Ps TG, Audrey, Andy and Jus

Nicole, Wency and fellow photographer Shawn
Photo taken by Nic Ling

Gideon & Sue's Wedding Part 1: Church

2006-10-11T22:44:00.000+10:00

23rd September 2006. Due to a mishap with a faulty card - we lost a significant number of photographs (to the effect of a few hundred). Nevertheless, a select few from the morning ceremony.

Serenity

Arriving

Bridesmaids

Processional 1: Flower girl

Processional 2: Maid of Honour

Ceremony

Bride & Father

Bridegroom

Altar

'I Do'

Post processing (Sue & Gideon's Wedding)

2006-10-10T08:41:00.000+10:00

Sue & Gideon's wedding coming up. Meantime, this is a glimpse of post processing. A photograph can take anywhere between 5 minutes or an hour of work depending on the complexity of the image and the story I would like to tell. This shot was taken during the processional.

Original image. The video photographer distracts the story (the processional). To be really critical - the orange tone due to halogen lights are too warm (notice the white dress is orange).

Video photographer 'deleted'. Orange tone is fixed. Photo cropped to focus on the flowergirl. The white cloth to the left is still too distracting and is near impossible to fix with my skills(I would have to redraw the wall, tiles and red carpet).

Add an artificial lighting spot in the middle to create a 'vignetting' effect - effectively blocking out the margins. However, now that the eyes focus on the middle, the concentration of colours and the bright right upper corner can be distracting.

Photo as above in black and white as an experiment. The lack of colours also distract because of a concentration of 'lines' in the middle.

Final product - selective colouring to bring out the best from the last 2 pictures.

Before After. Total working time 45 minutes.

Melbourne City 2006

2006-10-04T08:13:00.000+10:00

A couple of photographs of Melbourne. The city is absolutely gorgeous in the evenings. All photographs taken handheld a few Fridays ago.

Melbourne by the Yarra

Federation Square

Southbank

Flinders Street Station

Flinders Street Station - Movement

St. Paul's Cathedral

Life Kids Collingwood Farm

2006-10-03T19:05:00.000+10:00

Life Kids visitted Collingwood Children's Farm at the end of the second semester a couple of weeks back. The team also farewelled Rachelle who was leaving for a short stint away from Melbourne - that same day. Select photographs from the farm, BBQ at Studley Park and lunch at Albert Park. For Rachelle and the Life Kids Team.

At church

Life Kids at Collingwood Farm

Scarry goats

Cow milking

Annie having a go

Sigh...

Kids

Being silly
Photo taken by Jane

Andrew, Colleen, Jane and gorgeous Lan... preparing the BBQ

Street Life!

Leader's lunch at Albert Park - checking out a DVD dedicated to Rach
Photo taken by Chris Chan

To Rachelle!!

Wei Chung's Wedding part 5

2006-10-01T07:32:00.000+10:00

The final installment from the wedding. Photos from reception at night.

Room

Grand entrance 1
Photo taken by TQ

Grand entrance 2
Photo taken by TQ

Masters of Ceremony
Photo taken by TQ

Champagne pouring

Cake cutting
Photo taken by TQ

Presentation By Marie and Jinn
Photo taken by TQ

Table to table

Yaaaaaam Seeeeeeng!!!!

Patience

2006-09-26T22:29:00.000+10:00

Hi all!! Just a little side note - I am really sorry for the delay with some of the photographs. There is significant post processing after each shoot (I LOVE Photoshop.... what can I say!? It's afterall the fastest way to remove unsightly wrinkles and acne!) But because of the numerous shoots - many photos that should be due are still unprocessed.

Still coming up:

Wei Chung's wedding part 5
Collingwood Farm & Rachelle's Farewell
Sue and Gideon's wedding (will be in installments but the photos turned out beyond expectations)
Joyce and Julius' wedding (oh come on give me a break.... it's THIS coming Saturday so I have NOT shot it)
Life Kids
And a few fantabulous shots from my project 'Melbourne at Night'

And to ALL of you who have been bugging me... just hold on a little while alright!? You do NOT want to be the cause of me failing uni and picking up photography as my full time job ;)

Wei Chung's Wedding part 4

2006-09-26T21:45:00.000+10:00

Pre-dinner reception photographs:

Dinner Reception

In Kimono

Unc T Chye & Family

Guest Photograph 1

Guest Photograph 2

Guest Photograph 3

TQ and ahem ahem

Bro TQ, Mum and myself

Guest photograph 4

Mum, U TChye, U TChiang, U TChee

My absolute favourite photograph of Marie and TQ - having too much fun!

Wei Chung's Wedding part 3

2006-09-23T07:11:00.000+10:00

Group photographs from church:

The aunts (and Jinn)

The girls

Marie and Jinn

2 Families

Marie and myself

The aunts 2

Jinn and Aunt Kam Mee

Grooms side!

Myself, Mum and TQ

Mum & Ashling

Unc Teck Chee & Aunt Chui Chui

Wei Chung's Wedding part 2

2006-09-21T07:28:00.000+10:00

Photographs from church:

Wei Chung & Nelson

Aunt Sumi & Marie

Procession

Marie leading worship

Bride & Groom during worship

Exchange of vows

Violinist

Lighting the union candles

Married

Groom's family

Bride's family

Wei Chung's Wedding Part 1

2006-09-19T05:05:00.000+10:00

Select photos from the tea ceremony:

Final touch

Ready to go

At Kay Lyn's

'Buying entry'

Bouquet

A Chinese tradition

A Chinese tradition 2 - Working the roasted piglet

A Chinese tradition 3 - Tea Ceremony

Sue Lee's birthday

2006-09-17T17:21:00.000+10:00

Select photographs from her surprise party last week.

Birthday girl

Moment with dad

Busy. Scribbling away. Birthday card

The girls. Focused. Sharing the moment with Sue....

While the boys pose behind (vain!)

Happy birthday dearest Sue!

Kidsfest '06

2006-09-14T23:06:00.000+10:00

Planet Shakers organised an evangelical children's conference a few Saturdays ago. It was fantastic being able to bring our kids out - and to see so many young lives saved that day. In the morning, the children (a few thousand of them) were treated to a delightful time filled with performances by 'Kylie', clowns and such. The afternoon was spent outdoors at a mini carnival complete with face painting, rides, mirror house and balloons. A few excerpts:

Kylie lookalike Lucy Holmes. Absolutely sensational.
http://www.talentonline.co.nz/tribute-bands/kylie-tribute-act-melbourne.html

Fun with clowns

Worship by Planetshakers

Altar call

Pastor Rob preaching

At the carnival

At the carnival 2

With 'Kylie'

Last Sunday...

2006-09-07T10:56:00.000+10:00

A few photographs from Sunday at Life Expedition.

Acapella

Rachelle teaching our kids to make a photo frame

Jane & Colleen

Adelaide

2006-08-28T18:52:00.000+10:00

Impromptu visit to Adelaide, City of Churches on Saturday. It was a little break from medicine and a chance to check out where I may work next year. Adelaide is not as aesthetically beautiful as Melbourne (then again I am biased), but it was nevertheless a wonderful excuse to take pictures. Luckily enough (to satisfy my need for adventure) tickets were still cheap on Friday night for a Saturday morning flight!

City Hall, a fine example of the many colonial buildings around Adelaide

Adelaide Festival Centre at dusk

Adelaide Festival Centre by sunset

Colonial building at night

Paperboat by the Festival Centre

Adelaide Market

Random food photos at the market.

Melbourne

2006-08-17T18:21:00.000+10:00

No new photos of late to play around with. Meddling with my old photographs, and found an old favourite. It isn't perfect - and I want to take the photo again with a wider lens and a tripod.

Melbourne city from the Arts Centre

Psalms 23:4

2006-08-04T23:19:00.000+10:00

Memory verse from Semester 1, beautifully created by the children at Life Kids

Life Kids Semester 1

2006-07-27T21:11:00.000+10:00

Well, the Life Kids team is all pumped up for Semester 2! This Sunday will definitely be awesome - what with learning about 'our identity in God' and The Lion King. Semester 1 for the children was simply awesome. The kids learnt about the life of Jesus and danced 'Royalty' and 'Let Your Light Shine' (Hillsong Kids) to perfection. Not to mention - the leaders were great, committed and fun to work with. Several favourites from semester 1.

I feel like royaltyyyy....

Face paint...

...goes on like this!!

Hard at work - Nancy and Ives

Ann and Lisa

Psalms 23:4

All princess!!

Celebrating 33 Years

2006-07-24T00:17:00.000+10:00

Uncle TH (aka Dr. Goh) celebrated 33 years of service as a consultant paediatric cardiologist at the Royal Children's Hospital last Saturday. About 500 patients and parents turned up to support him as he retires from public service. Patients shared about Uncle TH, how he has changed their lives physically, as well as the extra mile he goes to accomodate them emotionally and spiritually. The afternoon celebrated a great career, but more importantly a greater man who serves the greatest God.

Uncle TH

The turnout

Dance performance

Captivated

Flowers for me too!

Autograph!

Bowling

2006-07-21T14:57:00.000+10:00

This was ages ago... but I finally got around to editting the photos. We brought the kids bowling at Highpoint to start off their holidays (18th June). Several of the older kids were disturbingly good.

Tao getting a little help from Eugene Goh

Thu on a roll!

Group shot

Babies

2006-07-19T11:28:00.000+10:00

At Life* Expedition - we have two new gorgeous additions this year. Children are difficult to photograph because they move unexpectedly and quickly. Two favourite photographs I took this semester.

Bubbly Samuel and mum Yennie
Samuel, Yen and Kev share a website at http://www.yenkevsam.blogspot.com/

Adorable Hannah
Hannah and mum Audrey share a website at http://audreyen.blogspot.com/

Hardware Lane

2006-07-18T00:50:00.000+10:00

Nothing beats a night of great food, fine wine and jazz. Hardware Lane in Melbourne boasts reasonable food over live jazz Friday and Saturday nights weekly. Expensive but unbeatable ambience.

Hardware Lane

Shiraz

Baptism 26th June 2006

2006-07-13T17:15:00.000+10:00

It was great to hear these guys share their life journey. Even more amazing to share time where they reconfirmed their faith in our Lord Jesus Christ! I am not too sure many of them would like to share (with the world) how they look like when they are most vulnerable (or just simply wet!!) So we'll leave it with these photos for the time being!

TG - Worship Leading

Baptism group

A time for prayer 1

A time for prayer 2

Annual Dinner

2006-07-13T16:19:00.000+10:00

Life Expedition Annual Dinner 24th June 2006.

Life Kids! Just before dinner for a last minute crash course on 'Let Your Light Shine'

Life Kids & Street Life gals

Ern, Jo, Ann, Lisa

Em, Tze Shin, Colleen

Ern, Jo

Then there was the mime....

The awesome mime dancers after dinner!