29 May 10
This sentence keeps coming out wrong, first I typed – I don’t like people in my photos. Backspace backspace backspace, then I typed – I don’t like shooting people. Haha, I think you know what I’m trying to say! So because I clearly am lacking in the ‘people’ department, it’s just so perfectly nice that my boyfriend, Ben, is quite the opposite.
These are some photos he took out in Chek Jawa/Pulau Ubin!
So I have to leave the house in 5 minutes, some friends and I are gonna run a race, I’m a nervous wreck mainly cos I don’t know what to expect. But wish me luck and no broken anythings!
| Tags: chek jawa, nikon D40, pulau ubin
26 May 10
I hope you guys enjoy these lot of photos more!
Standing on the boardwalk looking down into the sea
My friend, Caili, got stuck in the mud and we were both trying not to laugh our heads off
The very fat caterpillar!
Looking down at my friends from somewhere in the middle of the viewing tower
Spotted this fella in the mangrove
{These were taken with my Canon using Fujifilm Superia 400}
| Tags: canon eos 66, chek jawa, fujifilm superia 400, pulau ubin
24 May 10
Got out bright and early on Saturday and tagged along with a bunch of photo–crazy friends to explore Chek Jawa in Pulau Ubin. It’s an island away from Singapore, a very short ferry ride away. Where there are no high-rise buildings, no chain restaurants and no traffic lights, that sorta peaceful place.
I have a few more photos to share that I took using my SLR but these first, are taken with the Diana Mini using Kodak Gold 200. I won’t lie, my heart sank when I saw the photos, every single shot was shaky. It could either be the slow film speed plus the cloudy weather or my hands are really too big for the camera!
Anyway let me walk you through the photos.
On the ferry ride there
We rented bicycles and cycled to Chek Jawa
Stopped at an abandoned house
There’s no cycling allowed in Chek Jawa. You park your bicycles outside the checkpoint and go the rest of the way on foot. This photo above was taken along the coastal boardwalk, looking down at what I think is the coral rubble area.
This one was at the mangrove forest
Passed by the Balai quarry on our way back to where we started out
Just before leaving the island, we met a furry friend
There were so many creatures to peer at, it was pretty spectacular. Like the orange fiddler crabs with one giant claw, a wild boar walking in front of us and the biggest caterpillar all of us has ever seen. I’ll show you that in the next post!
| Tags: chek jawa wetlands, Diana Mini, kodak gold 200, pulau ubin
15 May 10
I was working on some layout work for a publication this past week and tried to get inspiration and ideas from books we have around the house. Dug out this one that belongs to my boyfriend – Rock Faces by Oliver Craske – It’s a photo book of some of the greatest images of rock n roll legends. I scanned a handful and thought I’d share them with you guys. Some of these made me think of what the atmosphere was like, was there tension or was everyone playing it cool and if it makes sense that a rockstar can only be photographed by an equally rockstar, fearless photographer. They gotta be on the same level in some way right?
Now, less talk more photos, rock on m/ my friends, whatever you do.
Patti Smith – Subterranean Records store, New York, 2000
(Top) Bob Marley and The Wailers arriving at the Birmingham Odeon, July 19, 1975
(Bottom) The Damned outside Stiff Records, London, March 1977
The Ramones at Eric’s, Liverpool, May 19, 1977
(Top) Jackson Browne – taken in a Hollywood parking lot
(Bottom) Joni Mitchell at her home on Lookout Mountain Avenue, Los Angeles, 1970
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at home with son Sean, the Dakota Building, New York, 1975
David Bowie plays Mick Ronson’s guitar, Oxford Town Hall, June 17, 1972
Jimi Hendrix at GM Studios, London, 1967
Bob Dylan, Glastonbury, 1998
Kurt Cobain, November 10, 1993
Sid Vicious, Longhorn Ballroom, January 10, 1978
Keith Flint of The Prodigy, Dallas, June 1997. I had the biggest crush on this man when I was 13, yow!
Ozzy Osbourne, London, 1974 (I cannot believe he looked like this when he was younger!)
Bob Marley, Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh at the Palladium, New York, 1978
Courtney Love of Hole, Zurich, April 1995
| Tags: rock faces by oliver craske, rock n roll, rockstars, Scans
7 May 10
We find ourselves in this position pretty often now. Best time of the day to be silently reading is right after waking up and brushing your teeth, I find. Just like the good ol’ days in school, only better because you can have your coffee and ibooks are allowed too.
| Tags: apple ipad, H&M portrait, nikon D40
