Support Kel

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, was too busy with work and with that little bit of free time left, i filled it up entirely with activities... now that i have a little more free time, i'll start to post pics from the past 3 weeks.. gotta give me a few days...

Anyway, kelvyn is going on a community service trip to nepal to help the kids in terms of education and he's currently doing his bit by doing some fund raising so that they will have more funds to help these kids... you can read more at his blog here... but to summarise, he hopes that we can donate a small token and then he will get the kids to write their thoughts and send the postcard to us from nepal... sounds cool right? i donated $20.. to many of us we can spend $20 easily in a meal, but i think this money means a lot more to the kids there, if you ask me to take time off my busy schedule to go there to help them, i think it's very difficult for me, but if my $20 can help them, i think it's going to be for a good cause.. so if you see this and feel that you wanna help them too, you can either email kel (his contact is on his blog) or you can let me know and i'll pass the message to him.. or you can donate and then request that the kids write "happy belated birthday to jx" and get the postcard posted to me... it would be really nice.. haha

photo taken directly from kel's blog

ok .. will definitely try to get some photos edited and posted tonight!!

Charity Golf Part 2

In the evening, it was a full course dinner for the golfers and other doners, to wrap up the event. No spectacular photos from the dinner itself, only lots of shots of the vip, the big shots, and the winners for the lucky draw and the tournament, so this time i'll be showcasing little miss snooze!!
After i saw this photo, i was a little shocked, cos she looked so young, can pass as a jc girl, less the handbag in the background. if i didn't remember wrongly, this was a candid shot, snapped on her when she turned around to my side. nice photo, but my fave is not this, there's one more to come..
A band was invited to play for the event, and they were really entertaining! made me recall those good old days where we were playing in the school bands, and performed at events to entertain the guest. they played quite a number of pieces, mostly familiar tunes from some time ago, haha, retro hits!! slow and fast ones.
Lil miss snooze was so mesmerised by the band. all the tunes she liked, one after another made she forgotten about the dinner totally. and yes this is my favourite photo from the dinner, i dun think she knew i took this photo, she's already drifting away with the music.
Gotta post one of andrea de cruz, she volunteered to be the host for the event, wow!! i was still asking leon how much she charges for hosting an event like that, i was shocked when he told me she's doing it for free. and i think we all agreed that she did a wonderful job. and i realised that all celebrity look very much slimmer in person, i couldn't recognise her when i first saw her at the dinner, she was so small sized! ..
Finally, an interesting photo. lil miss snooze using an slr camera. with this photo, we all can see that if you are small in size, you should stick to the compact cameras, because if you use an slr, no one can see the photographer!! ... and this photo didn't feature the railway tracks!!

Charity Golf Part 1

Decided to help leon as a photographer for a charity golf event last thursday at laguna national golf & country club so that i can get myself exposed to bigger events as a photographer. it was totally worth the day and the sun burn after that.

There were 4 photographers in all, leon adele ronald and me, and you can see from their equipment that mine is really nothing. xiao wu jian da wu. only that day i knew that there's such a thing called l lenses, l for luxury!! and you can identify the canon ones by the red ring on the front.. btw, l also stands for less-affordable.
Here are some photos of the day shots... i wanted to choose like my favourite shot to post here, but it's too difficult, cos i dunno how to choose, the photos are all very nice. l lenses are really different. yes i got to use l lenses, thanks to ronald.

I think you would have knows by now that i like this kind of shot, a very focused and sharp subject with a blurred background. love the green in all the photos from the day shots.

Golfers walking to their assigned buggy, it would be nice if they could assign one to me, so that i could drive round the course to take photos. no luck for that, so i endeed up walking instead.

Adele was telling me that it would be nice if we can catch a photo of a golfer getting the ball out of the bunker(i just learned this word), so i kept waiting for the right chance, finally got this one, sadly i couldn't get one from an angle where you can see the face, the sand and the ball.

Man in red: "yes, that was a good one"
Man in purple: (silently to himself) "why is he so happy? the ball didn't get into the hole... duh!"

Q: why are golf clubs so expensive?
A: because they have to be strong enough to support a man's weight.

This guy here is the winner of the tournament, and he's only 19 years old!! can you believe it? how many of us had actually stepped onto a golf course at that age. different people, different life.

Too many photos to include in a single posting, will post photos from the dinner at night at a later date, meanwhile just enjoy these. have posted quite some photos today!! before they all pile up.