Moving on

I am currently assisting Jollence Lee at the GDF Photography and Photo Editing Workshop being held at the Crocker Range - Inobong Sub-Station here in Penampang. We had to chance to go out and take some macro shots to be edited in the workshop, so here are some of my shots. I feel I have gone full circle with photography journey cos my first postings were macro also.

Starting my vintage camera collection

I started fooling around with photography around 1992-93 and had real gung-ho aspirations to be a photographer since then. I inherited an old Yashica SLR from my father and went shooting with my buddies Romeo, Disney and Kelly.

*Not the exact Yashica but a photo from Wikipedia

I remember we all had old cameras and mine would always jam up, and finally on a climb to Mt. Kinabalu, it finally gave up on me and the mirror never came down..it was stuck for good.

So I requested, I think for my birthday, for a camera from my sister, who gave me a 2nd hand Canon SLR.

*again, not the exact Canon. Mine had an all black body.

I think I only managed to use it once for a body-building competition at Kiulu, then the same problem happened, the mirror got jammed. This time it was sent to a technician to be fixed but it really conked out.

I was without a SLR camera for a long long time, till I got my first DSLR in 2008, a Nikon D200.


Coming to Australia has it downs for me, not being able to work in my chosen field of Photojournalism. The pros is, however, endless. I can now shoot without pressure to deliver to my editor or client.

I was chatting online with fellow Sabahan, Flanegan Bainon, who is in Melbourne studying Photography and he told he had started collecting vintage cameras. I found that really interesting and kept an eye out for old cameras at thrift stores and garage sales.

This is my first vintage camera I bought at the Salvation Army store. It cost me AUS$15.00. The Minolta Hi-Matic G was made in 1974, the year I was born, and still works. There was still a roll of film inside when I got it. I changed the battery and the meters went 'alive'! I think I got a good buy.

First hike in the Australian Bush

Its been around two weeks since we landed in Canberra, and I needed to go out and shoot before I forgot the functions on my camera. I went for a walk and found out that a nature park is right behind our apartment. The feeling is very different from what I am used to in the rainforest. It was a nice day and I saw my first in-the-wild kangaroos. They actually come around our place at night and poop, so banyak tai kangaroo everywhere, macam tai kambing. I took a photo too.











Tai kangaroo (ABOVE), by the way, we got to eat kangaroo meat the first week here, taste like payau lah

Pocket Bikes at Likas

Hello guys, have not been posting for a while now, internet and camera problems..but I am back!

I was by the Likas Sports complex today and saw them pocket or coin bikes going faster than my Kancil. So I stopped by to test out my newly reconditioned camera.

I was very impressed that most of the bikers were young kids, some as young as 5 yrs old (my guess).

By the way, please forgive the watermark in smack in the middle of the photos. After a photographer-friend's photos got used illegally in other websites, we photo-bloggers are now putting the watermark in the middle, instead of on the side, to protect the copyright of our photos.

Enjoy!

Down by the Riverside - Joseph and Diane's Kota Belud Wedding

Sorry Diane for the late entry on my blog, I have been sick for the past few days. Well, here is a teaser for you. I enjoyed this shoot because of the colors that the couple was wearing, and the wonderful location by the river. Enjoy!

Into the Tengilan Rice Field - Joseph and Diane's Wedding

Diane is one of my cousins who got married this month. He married a fine man named Joseph who is a Police Officer working in West Malaysia. These are some pictures we took of them in the rice field near her house.