Final Foto Friday of 2010

Wishing everyone a good year ahead!

Have a meaningful and purposeful year

and remember to count your blessings!

Believe that 2011 is going to be better than 2010...

Your life is going be be better

Your family is going to be closer

Malaysia is going to be a nicer place

Gears for photography

Am very happy to own Sigma 18-200mm and Nikkor 50mm lenses to go with the Nikon D90 body I have.

50mm is supposed to view and capture the same range as what your naked eye sees. And it is particularly good for portraits and low-light situations. However D90 is a DX format camera with a crop factor. You can go ahead and learn what is a crop factor elsewhere. In my own words, everything you get from a DX camera is 1.5 times zoomed in when compared to FX. So 50mm is no longer what your eyes see but narrower.

Therefore, the next on my list of photography gears to get is a 35mm lens!
Actually I want an external flash unit pretty much too. Struggling to decide which to get first if ever I manage to save up sufficient cash.

Can't be bothered about a camera bag or tripod yet.

Money no enough!

Hope photography is a worthy interest to invest in.

Inferior

It was Christmas, there were events.
I am thankful to be blessed with a Nikon D90.
So I was at some events to take photos.

Besides me and my camera, there were also others who were better at photography and many of them held better cameras.
Looking at their photographs made available online, I looked through and saw the way they controlled their cameras and captured good angles. The colours, exposures, etc, quite nicely balanced.

As for me, I was most of the time feeling helpless holding the D90 in my hands that always tend to shake each time I took a shot. Editing became even more depressing when I realised so many pictures were just junk. Nearly half of what my memory card contained were blurred shots.

Am trying to learn from other photographers.

My first stethoscope

Merry Christmas!

In the overwhelming of activities and events, I am putting in effort to personally remember the meaning of Christmas. Jesus, Phil 2:6 Who, being in very nature God,did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, Phil 2:7 but made himself nothing,taking the very nature of a servant,being made in human likeness came down to Earth and suffered so that all who calls upon His name shall be saved.

Yup, I don't give a damn about Santa Claus, snowmen and those silly Christmas songs.

In spite of the fun in big events and the blessings they can bring to the town, I still like to enjoy simple celebrations. Staying home in the morning. Mom and dad bought me a stethoscope! Hahaha!

Everyone have a happy Christmas!

Going out

It has been almost a week now since coming home from Singapore for this short break. As I begin to look back and reflect I realise that there was not even one night that I spent quietly at home. Meaning I was always out at night and came home late each time.

Sorry it sounds a little surprising to me! Never noticed I was always out at night until today. I just had to say yes to every supper gathering among various groups of friends because od my fear of no longer having such convenience to meet up like this in the years to come. So every night I was driving out late and driving home later. It feels so good to drive at such hours for where I come from it is quite peaceful on the roads late at night.

However family must never be forgotten. I feel sorry for always being away and bringing much worry to my parents who might probably find difficulty in sleeping since their boy is always out so late.
It's dad's off-day today, I promise to stay home once I come back from another breakfast appointment in half an hour's time.

Foto Friday

It feels good to be behind the wheels again

Control is power

With great power comes great responsibility

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace
how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost
but now am found
was blind but now I see.

One of the most beautiful verses ever written. I wonder how did John Newton felt when he repented and joined in the effort to abolish slavery after being set free himself. I just wonder how great it is to experience such tremendous change in life. Not forgetting the amount of guilt he probably had to face as memories of tortures and deaths of numerous innocent lives haunted him. (I would be haunted) But he is saved by faith nonetheless.

Now as I am exposed to the introduction to Sociology and am learning to look at things through the various sociological perspectives with different theories in mind, the history behind the Abolition of slave trade becomes even more meaningful to me. Same goes for the hymn, Amazing Grace.

Foto Friday

Light

and her various wavelengths