One of the biggest music talents and veteran from Malaysia, Juwita Suwito performing at BMW Edge, backed by a full orchestra. Awesome!
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Showing posts with label famous people. Show all posts
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Emmy Bryce at BMW Edge
Beautiful performance! Thank you very much Emmy Bryce
I don't get commission for promoting her CDs but I do believe that artist deserve their income!
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Carols by Candlelight 2012
One of my very favorite event of the year. Love the singing, the costumes, the crowd, the message, the kids, the community, the food, the "candles", Santa and the fireworks! Climate is playing funny buggers in recent years. One day, we are warned that Australia is headed to unprecedented heat waves and high temperatures, the next day it is freezing cold and showers.
If you know me, you would know this silly guy would say, "I don't dissolve in water." You know what, I almost did. It was such a very very wet evening! BUT, the crowd still came, complete with their umbrellas, rugs, director's chairs and beach chairs, hats, picnic basket and all. Kid you not, when I pull out the bounce card from my flash, I saw a stream of water flowing out of it... Thank God that the event manager is so kind to me he gave me a raincoat to put on when he saw this completely drenched fella.
Look from the positive light, there were many colours because of the umbrellas! :)
This is an example of the "candles" I am talking about. Wonder if they could use saber swords all around next year?
I am lucky to get a shot of the fireworks without big water drops on my lens or lens completely fogging up. Zoom-in helps, save me from pointing to far up and turn the front element and hood into a cup for water. :P
If you know me, you would know this silly guy would say, "I don't dissolve in water." You know what, I almost did. It was such a very very wet evening! BUT, the crowd still came, complete with their umbrellas, rugs, director's chairs and beach chairs, hats, picnic basket and all. Kid you not, when I pull out the bounce card from my flash, I saw a stream of water flowing out of it... Thank God that the event manager is so kind to me he gave me a raincoat to put on when he saw this completely drenched fella.
Look from the positive light, there were many colours because of the umbrellas! :)
This is an example of the "candles" I am talking about. Wonder if they could use saber swords all around next year?
I am lucky to get a shot of the fireworks without big water drops on my lens or lens completely fogging up. Zoom-in helps, save me from pointing to far up and turn the front element and hood into a cup for water. :P
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Aerial Manx performing at Southbank Melbourne
My youngest cousin Wayne came over from HK for an English tour over 4 weeks. In fact, he is heading home today. It was a bit of all roller coaster ride with the course he enrolled in. But all in all, I think it was still a good experience and I hope he takes some fond memories back with him. Don't want to critic here... If you don't understand what I am talking about and you are interested or planning to go for such a tour, please write to me.
On Day 2, we went down to South Bank and saw this sword swallowing contortionist performing on the street. We stopped to look (and did the right thing to award the talented performer at the end). I little google reviewed the identity of the contortionist - Aerial Manx
Running around, I am serious, he was running, on all four up-side-down! See the girl holding on her knees, some ran away scared as he approached. :P
Fitting through 2 tennis racquets. The grommets actually put lots of marks on Aerial's back. Looked painful. And the rings... Aerial did warn us about the rings...
Thank you very much Aerial for posing to the photographer! :D
Next up is the sword swallowing act. It is a real sword. Unbelievable! With the sword all the way down the throat, he juggled three flaming torches as well.
Here is Aerial Manx performing on Hey Hey It's Saturday. I reckon his ball skills rivals that of Lionel Messi of Barcelona!
Last but not least at Australia's Got Talents where he demonstrates sword swallowing and doing cartwheels. He survived. Speechless! XO
On Day 2, we went down to South Bank and saw this sword swallowing contortionist performing on the street. We stopped to look (and did the right thing to award the talented performer at the end). I little google reviewed the identity of the contortionist - Aerial Manx
WARNING: Unless you are Aerial Manx, don't do this!
Running around, I am serious, he was running, on all four up-side-down! See the girl holding on her knees, some ran away scared as he approached. :P
Fitting through 2 tennis racquets. The grommets actually put lots of marks on Aerial's back. Looked painful. And the rings... Aerial did warn us about the rings...
Thank you very much Aerial for posing to the photographer! :D
Next up is the sword swallowing act. It is a real sword. Unbelievable! With the sword all the way down the throat, he juggled three flaming torches as well.
To add to the drama, the fuel on the torches ran out and he had to bend down and refuel and light them up again. Amazing mate!
Here is Aerial Manx performing on Hey Hey It's Saturday. I reckon his ball skills rivals that of Lionel Messi of Barcelona!
Last but not least at Australia's Got Talents where he demonstrates sword swallowing and doing cartwheels. He survived. Speechless! XO
WARNING: Unless you are Aerial Manx, don't do this!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW) 2010 - FOX Fashion
I have never been inside the Forum Theatre. What a beautiful building! ♥
Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW) 2010 - Summary
This year's Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW 2010) was packed with challenges, new experiences, and favors.
Challenges and New Experiences
Already named the challenge of lighting in the previous post here. Here is another one:
I had an interesting challenge to prepare the slide-show / backdrop behind one of the fashion shows. They were slides for designer labels, labels of accessories and shoes and slides of performers, etc. It was a big challenge because I didn't even know the program before that - Keynote and my mac experience can only qualify at best as beginner level.
Here is one of the simplest slides, with only the design label, no labels for shoes and accessories.
This is the macbook I used to prepare the presentation. Note the run sheet next to it on the left with yellow highlights.
I was so worried about not being able to find the logos (jpegs), mis-spelling the label where I couldn't find the pic. Getting the slides in the wrong order and whether I was putting the right content in the slides.. not all were design labels, it was the backdrop for the whole show.
Anyway, with many prayers, I made it just in time. Five pages of run sheet converted to no less that 60 slides. I checked them and checked them again and again. After, no less that 4 complete check from the beginning to the end, my first Keynote slide-pack was complete! So relieved! :)
During the MSFW 2010 week, I had my laptop with me which meant I could work through the pics as the week went on. Despite being worried about losing the laptop or damaging it, it helped me to get several sets of photos ready just as the client wants them.
Sweet! :)
Favors
Nikon was a key sponsor of MSFW 2010 this year. It was fantastic! I got to know some of the cool people from Nikon professional services. In particular, Julie M. who let me work on my pics during the day in their service centre / media room.
They also lent me a Nikon D3s for the week as well as a copy of the new 70-200mm f/2.8 VR2 lens. I also had the D3x for a while, tried out the 200-400mm as well as... yep... wait... drum roll... the 600mm f/4 VR which is a really big beast! So heavy (over 5kg), so long, I played with it for a little while backstage in the make-up area where I couldn't actually focus on anything (with the minimum focus length of 5m) but boy did I feel powerful with it.. Talk about men with their toys.. :)
I didn't keep the 600mm or even the 200-400mm, just the D3s and the new 70-200mm, yeah, just the D3s and the 700-200mm... ;) Had to reconfigure the camera from scratch which wasn't a trivial task because the camera is really customisable, but I was more than happy to pay that price!
BTW, love the shorter minimum focusing distance of the new 70-200mm and lack of light fall-off at the corners!
Another big favor is from a top notch make-up artist of Napoleon Perdis, Shev Kelly. She kindly gave me two front row reserved seats at one of the shows. Thank you so very much Shev, I owe you one!
The tickets went to a photographer friend of mine, Brett and his brand new girl-friend and did well to impress. ;)
Challenges and New Experiences
Already named the challenge of lighting in the previous post here. Here is another one:
I had an interesting challenge to prepare the slide-show / backdrop behind one of the fashion shows. They were slides for designer labels, labels of accessories and shoes and slides of performers, etc. It was a big challenge because I didn't even know the program before that - Keynote and my mac experience can only qualify at best as beginner level.
Here is one of the simplest slides, with only the design label, no labels for shoes and accessories.
This is the macbook I used to prepare the presentation. Note the run sheet next to it on the left with yellow highlights.
I was so worried about not being able to find the logos (jpegs), mis-spelling the label where I couldn't find the pic. Getting the slides in the wrong order and whether I was putting the right content in the slides.. not all were design labels, it was the backdrop for the whole show.
Anyway, with many prayers, I made it just in time. Five pages of run sheet converted to no less that 60 slides. I checked them and checked them again and again. After, no less that 4 complete check from the beginning to the end, my first Keynote slide-pack was complete! So relieved! :)
During the MSFW 2010 week, I had my laptop with me which meant I could work through the pics as the week went on. Despite being worried about losing the laptop or damaging it, it helped me to get several sets of photos ready just as the client wants them.
Sweet! :)
Favors
Nikon was a key sponsor of MSFW 2010 this year. It was fantastic! I got to know some of the cool people from Nikon professional services. In particular, Julie M. who let me work on my pics during the day in their service centre / media room.
They also lent me a Nikon D3s for the week as well as a copy of the new 70-200mm f/2.8 VR2 lens. I also had the D3x for a while, tried out the 200-400mm as well as... yep... wait... drum roll... the 600mm f/4 VR which is a really big beast! So heavy (over 5kg), so long, I played with it for a little while backstage in the make-up area where I couldn't actually focus on anything (with the minimum focus length of 5m) but boy did I feel powerful with it.. Talk about men with their toys.. :)
I didn't keep the 600mm or even the 200-400mm, just the D3s and the new 70-200mm, yeah, just the D3s and the 700-200mm... ;) Had to reconfigure the camera from scratch which wasn't a trivial task because the camera is really customisable, but I was more than happy to pay that price!
BTW, love the shorter minimum focusing distance of the new 70-200mm and lack of light fall-off at the corners!
Another big favor is from a top notch make-up artist of Napoleon Perdis, Shev Kelly. She kindly gave me two front row reserved seats at one of the shows. Thank you so very much Shev, I owe you one!
The tickets went to a photographer friend of mine, Brett and his brand new girl-friend and did well to impress. ;)
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