@|1f34|-|1r3: Love the expression too! I guess it’s the simplest way to get the message across – imagine trying to explain the whole green man and red man thing to someone who is not familiar with English. Teehee.

@abdusfauzi: Thanks! It’s not really improving but it’s more about me exploring different way of expression. I’m still far away from the ‘guru’ level, heh!

@med: Yea, definitely! Singapore is a lot different from what it was 4 years ago – we have new buildings, a new downtown reservoir, a huge ferris wheel (I hope it’s operational soon) and lots of other new attractions!

I live in Singapore – a tropical garden city to be exact. They have trees everywhere (even in town!), which earns the city state it’s name. I’m a little envious that you have four seasons over there – snowing is something that I always crave for. I am yet to make my first snow angel and to play in my first snowball fight! It’s a very huge building – there’s a lack of a scale for comparison in the photo but it’s pretty huge! I don’t know what’s inside – perhaps a office and a serviced apartments hybrid?

Thanks for the complements. Blue and green are my favourites too, not to forget earthy tones. Having an entire layout on purple or yellow is an interesting idea but I’m yet to find out a colour scheme that wouldn’t hurt the eyes *laughs*

I lost my phone but a grumpy old man picked it up. Actually what he did was right – my friend, who was collecting on my behalf, wasn’t the owner of the phone so without any prove of ownership, he could not hand the phone over to him. My friend did a great deal of explanation to help me get the phone back. I wasn’t around because of a lecture :P heheh.

See you around Melle! Have a great week ahead!

Technically speaking I’m not an ex-Malaysian since I’m still hold a Malaysian citizenship. I didn’t want to give it up partially because of NS liability (sniggers) but it’s more like seeing Malaysia as my true home (no matter how bad it gets).

For that shutter speed, you’ll need a really sunny day (usually in-camera flash unit can fire at most to 1/160th of a second). The bright daylight will allow you to shoot even in 1/1500th of a second (even at ISO100), which speaks volume of how bright the actual scene is :D

The first photo–is AMAZING it reminds me of the “Tower of Terror” which is this super scary ride at Disney World – Orlando that I love. Do people live in that building or is it for businesses? It is so massive!

2. I love the design of your blog. So clean and beautiful! Blue & Green are my favorite colors and with me, you cannot go wrong if your blog is blue! hehe, either way I would still enjoy coming here and reading what you have to say if it was purple or yellow.

3. I am so sorry about your phone. I had an LG phone that was the worst at being charged. Now I have a phone that charges, but will not charge when I am on the phone with some one. That is no where as sad as losing your phone. I would have cried for a minute because I talk on it sooo much. I am happy you got it back though. Did that old man not want to give it up? How mean is that?

Okay, that was quite a lot of commenting. Heheh!! I may have forgotten something, but no worries!

Check out Melle’s latest blog post » my 2009 begins today

Speaking of getting the timing right, it just takes a little time to know the rhythm of the water jets like the back of your hand, and you’ll be hitting the shutter button at the right time :D

Have you heard of HDRi then? It involves combining photos taken of the same scene but with different levels of exposure. The photos are then combined in a programme such that each region is properly exposed – this means compressing the actual dynamic range of the whole scene (as seen by the human eye) into an artificial dynamic range on the computer screen. Basically HDRi mimics how our eye perceives the environment.

A pseudo-HDR means that it has the appearance of a HDR image but that it is not produced using the method above. Usually a pseudo-HDR can be made from a single JPEG file, just by simply dodging the shadows and burning the highlights. I did mine using RAW, which involves creating three or more JPEGs from the same RAW file but with different exposure levels and then recombine them. Since they’re derived from a single RAW file, they’re pseudo-HDR, not the real ones involving photos taken separately :) but RAW is a good substitute, especially for scenes with fast moving objects (eg busy street).

I will guard my phone with my life from now on :D

Anyway, I didn’t get to meet the grumpy old man. My friend did. And he gave him a haaaaard time. Meh!

From now on I shall guard my phone with my life. I get my phone, get over my dead body first *evil laughs*

Chanced upon your blog via plurk from Ivy’s list of friends. And wow! You’ve got a very nice blog! And very beautiful photos too!

I’m also into photography and blogging. Will surely be coming back for more! Adding you to my feeds too!

claudia