Jimmy & Winnie – A Turning Point

Starting from September this year, I had a strange shift in my photography style and way of looking at photos. Could no longer find much pleasure in just plain shooting color images and suddenly grown very, very fond of B&W especially for weddings.

Black and white for me starts to fill so much more emtional and conveys the feelings of each moment better but of course, shooting images meant for B&W instead of color has its unique challenges as B&W images look best with interesting lighting as well as strong subject and/or lines. Continue reading

My First Flash Website

After around 2 weeks of continuous work, sweat and quite a few extra strands of white hair; my new site is done. It’s a huge sigh of relief and a big sense of achievement, I who knew nothing.. yes, nothing of Flash programming or ActionScript actually learnt and built a site from scratch in the short period of time.

At first, I sketched up quite a few designs in Photoshop and started with a really green and natural looking design or a deep blue one which looked like my photos were floating on the sea but eventually and slowly, the current design emerged.

This was to be a slow, gentle and simple looking site; a site that encourages visitors to sit back and just take a slow look through my portfolio which as it has been always the centerpiece of my website(s) as a photographer.

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