GX GARNERINGS

(Leica X1) Obviously a top pic is today's shot. LOL! The real top pic will show soon. I'm referring to the WYNG Masters Award which has been mentioned on GXG (if you're wondering, search the blog using the search bar). The decision on the sole winner for the award – a swooping sum of HK$250,000 – will be hammered out soon from the few finalists. But the organiser is not going to drop the other shoe just yet. Well, not before the coming inaugural exhibition - Poverty in the Midst of Plenty to show the works from 19 March to 6 April at Artistree, 1/F Cornwall House, Taikoo Place, Island East, Hong Kong. To tie in with the event is a series of – let me check – hmmmm, yes, FREE talks on the topics of poverty, art and photography.  Registration is required as seats are limited. Go here .

(Leica X1) Standing In Front of the Doors Think'in                               If It Takes                              t'Gall For me                                 to Unlatch                        'em All For the                            Glow Said                                  Hey Beh                            o       ld! !!!!                             ...

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(Sony Xperia S) Honestly I have always been amused by the term "phone photography". Back ten years, I had a Casio camera watch (I still have it with me). If it had been popular enough, we might have had a splinter genre called wrist watch photography. As technology is taking quantum leaps, camera functionality can prevail in whatever portable device we can name. Who knows if then we will have handbag photography, eyeglass photography and so on and so forth. Where will all these photography genres fit? In this vein of thought, it strikes me that what matters may not be the device.  Surely a phone with camera functionality can stealtilhy approach subjects to so close a distance for candid shots that no presently available camera can win for that matter. But when Google glasses with camera functionality are selling well, where will the smartphones stand in the competition of up-close-and-stealthily? So, what matters in the categorisation are the characteristics of such snapsh...

(Leica D-Lux 5) A renowed design-visual-art guru, the mastermind behind the visual arts course I enrolled in, has been like a trusty hiking team leader guiding his pupils into the unexplored wonderland of art and to scale new heights. For all that I have been practising observation through a photographer's eye, it didn't happen to me before the guru's prompt that observation isn't all looking and seeing. To an artist, he revealed from his 40 years of experience in the arts field, it is primarily about finding out the quintessence of what presents before our eyes. The quintessence of a table can be the sharp corners, and that of a Leica camera can be the rectangular form. Once the quintessence is grabbed, the artist can start to transform the object into a work of art. For example, the quintessence of a safety pin hinges on its unique head and coiled structures. With that in mind, one can alter it into any form or shape and the viewers will be visually challenge...

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(Leica D-Lux 5) The Chinese character is pronounced as "mong" (or "wang" tone 4 in Mandarin), meaning "look". It can be used in an exclamation or imperative like, "Hey, take a look!" ("Wai, mong ha!") or as sort of a transitive verb in sentences like, "Look that way" and "Look at me".  CSL Learners should note that every Chinese character can be both a word and the smallest morphemic element to go with other characters to form vocabularies, to which the nearest comparison in English is the phrasal verb where a word can take on a preprosition to give a different meaning. "Mong" is of no exception. The list of combinations of vocabularies can be found in a Chinese Ci Dian ("Ci Dian" is dictionary for words, "Zi Dian" is dictionary for characters). The best Ci Dian for CSL learners is not found among those published by Chinese native speakers but by an editor named John Defrancis. ...