She is a Lyric Poetry

She is like winter sunshine moving along the windowsill

The sight of which makes you jump out of the quilt

Fetch a camera even though you are in your briefs still

Lest she will be gone before catching of her an everlasting glimpse

Nevin H. Lawrence 17th October 2009

I met Rowena by chance. There the urge of my camera and her sweet smiles plus the D&G watch and the matching colours on her accumulated into some unknown chutzpah with which I asked her for permission to take some photos of her.

Some say travelling is an education in itself

I say travelling is like a book per se

Travelling only gets you further in distance but not in the head

Like a book with nothing to gain until it have been read

Nevired Owen 17th October 2009

Life is full of good surprises and bad ones, which doesn't really matter until you stand embracing them. Embrace them, good or bad, because if life can be reduced to one word it would be "risk". Life is a risk from exactly the moment you were just a fertilised fusion of an egg and a sperm. So if life is a journey, risky is its name. When life is a journey, our daily travelling is a leg of it. Now that I know life is a risky journey, I tend to be risk-embracing especially when travelling.

Travel to a land afar

Switch yourself to a higher gear

By taking some risk oh dear

Like a toast to life let's cheer

Nevinar Wilde 17th October 2009

Taking an initiative to make new friends is not the spectacular kind of risk but actually the beginning of it which could yield very unexpected results. The reason is obvious, my readers. It is to mix your own risk (life) with another person's. A love relationship, the highest form of friendship, is a clearer case in point. A turned-out-to-be criminal you may have befriended. But chances are also that you will make some lifelong wonderful friends. Even for general acquaintanceship, it is still like turning a page to the foreword of a book to learn the general schemes of things in the literal journey.

So that brings us back to travelling daily in a leg of the life journey. Suss out the risk if that concerns you and try to start a friendship. Otherwise, at least, let's your camera get a permanent glimpse of what may be an ephemeral friendship. Of course, be prepared with the photographic paraphernalia at all time or sharpen up your photographic skills in free times. Here for a white fair-skinned deep-eyed lady, you have to meter her eyes. Otherwise, the camera will underexpose her face plus the eyes will look smoky dark. The overhead lighting source was problematic but that was what you have to make do with when being impromptu. The slightly blurred background was made by way a filter rubbed with Vaseline petroleum jelly.

(Thank you Rowena for your help and permission)

A Real Hero

(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the

New Low Prices

The window shopping some hours ago has almost provoked my AgIDS illness. Just in case you’re in Hong Kong or are coming here, and have the money to burn (All in HK$/ body only): GX200 = $3,280 GRD2 = $3,380 LX3 = $3,180 G10 = $3,280 Prices are available form a gear shop on the 1st floor of the Mongkok Computer Centre. Besides these new low prices, I found that Wing Shing Photo (55-57Sai Yeung Choi St., MK Tel: 2396 6886/ 91-95 Fa Yuen St., MK Tel: 2396 6885) is offering a Sony A700 + Carl Zeiss Lens package for HK$9,980 (hopefully, a bargain will make it some hundreds cheaper).

Eye Contact

(Leica D-lux 5) The digital era may make it easier to end up with fave shots. Even lousy photos may be turned likable after a few clicks in the post-processing workflow. But if digital advancement or amendments have any bearing on the cultivation of personal style, no photographers will need to discover his or her own photographer’s eye. Undoutedly, this is out of the question. Only with a trained photographer’s eye can we give a thinking gaze and capture an eternal moment, in our unique style. Style is the soul of a great photo. A few posts have been written in GXG to touch on the topic of photographer’s eye. Instead of finding an answer, which would require academic discussions, the posts are intended to give my general reflections and spark interests in moving towards further exploration of the topic. The posts can be viewed after the links: 1) Photographer's Eye: Storytelling 2) Photographer's Eye: Little Show of Observing 3) Photographer's Eye: Sight-Worthy 4

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