We are moving...

Due to the closing down of Jux service recently, we decided to host our own blog.
It has been a while since our last post, but we finally got what we wanted.
Pay it a visit, will you?

Thanks so much for your support and we hope to see you there ;)
Analox & Admire

"In Transit” - The intertwined landscape of Singapore

In the past 6 months, I tried to bring my camera around as often as possible to complete my project "In Transit", which is to mark my 10-th year of staying in Singapore. In such a small island, nature scenes have been combined with the modern cityscape to maintain the balance. There is no magnificent mountains, lakes or long beaches as ones often admire, but rather the intertwined land-scape of Singapore and the different races makes it so intrigued.

The photos included in the project tried to capture Singapore's landscape, to that extent.

Here are some highlights:

Project link is here. As it is still an ongoing project, I would appreciate very much your constructive comments and suggestions. Thank you! :)
Best view in monitor, not your iPhone, plz ;)

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MacRitchie Treetop Walk, Singapore

Put here before I forget :D
Taken with OM1 + Zuiko 50mm f1.4 / Afga Vista 200

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Punggol Jetty, Singapore

Photos taken by Olympus OM1, Zuiko 35mm f2.8 on Afga Vista 200 film (expired 02/2011).

My two friends were still shy in front of the camera, but surely in L.O.V.E :P

Some extra shots on the day...

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Train in Singapore

These are the photos I took on train or at the train station. In Singapore, they call it Mass Rapid Transit or MRT. I tried to write an "artist statement" about this "project" but I could write none. I just was there, saw it and took photo, simple as that. Put it this way, I'm so busy with work and daily chores that I couldn't travel for vacations or pursuit a big photography project. But I still love photography. So I brought a camera with me, in this case the Olmpus 35SP with Tri-X film, everywhere I go for about a month. I use train for daily transport, to go to work, to go out and to go home.

So these photos are about trains and the people using it.

Moves at the train station

Morning train

Evening train

Night train

Pioneer Station - near to one end of Singapore.
This scene is no longer there as they've already built the safety barriers in the station.

Commonwealth Station

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(Olympus 35SP, 42mm f1.7 G.Zuiko/ Kodak Tri-X 400)

About Admiré: Through the pictures

Decided to "document" stuffs about my wife in my first roll of Tri-X 400 (BW film)

1. She likes to take photos and she's more outgoing than me :">

2. She likes to read books. She visits library for things she doesn't know...

3. She likes sewing, fixing clothes, making clothes...

4. She cooks well, creatively & really fast...

5. She's cute, at least to me :X

6. To be continued... in my next roll.

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First time @ Canon Photomarathon 2010

Well well well, it was only yesterday but I gotta write something while it's still hot. Yes, it was our first time at the Canon Photomarathon. After so many times missing the chance to join, we finally had a day running around from 9am to 6pm taking photos, going back for submission and then going out taking photos again. At the end of the day, our legs felt like falling off. Here's a snap of what happened.

We got 3 hours to do everything for each theme: go out, take photos, come back, and submit the best photo straight from the camera. It sounded easy but the MC warned us that we needed like 1-1.5 hour for the queue. So you've got to get the idea, go to the place, take a nice photo and get back really fast or you'll be late for the next theme. There were 3 of them in total to make you busy all day. Lunch time was not in consideration.

9am: Theme 1 "Clarity"

The first thing we said was that these Canon guys might be inspired by the big haze covering the island the last couple of days (j/k). We thought that everybody might jump into that as well so we decided not to go there. We kind of like the idea of shooting through Analox's glasses and kept looking for some good objects to shoot. We shoot some water drops as well but they weren't so nice. Eventually, here's what we got. I like the idea of multiple layers of glasses in these photos.

By Analox

By Admiré

12pm: Theme 2: "Faith"

It was hard to think of something out of the box for this theme. While queuing to submit the first theme's photos, we quickly decided that we would go to a religious place and see what we could get. We went to Kampong Glam but didn't find much inspiration there. The mosque was closed for visitor when we reached. We thought it would be easier to take photos at temple as praying was usually in open area but we both didn't know any temple nearby and it was almost 1.30pm, so we went to St Joseph's Church.

In the end, we had something to represent the idea of blending 'faith in normal life'

By Analox

By Admiré

3pm: Theme 3: "Charge"

Well, we really needed to re-charge at 3pm when energy level was at red alert. We decided not to go anywhere far from Suntec city so that we wouldn't be too tired to get back and submit the photos before 6.05pm, the final deadline. Many ideas came to mind but most of them were thrown out of the window because of feasibility. These were more or less from the idea of 'electronic charge' from our low energy minds :)).

By Analox

By Admiré

As many other competitions, there could only be a few winners. And, as many other participants who didn't win, we didn't totally agree with the judges' choice =)). Some of the winning photos were really good but some weren't quite so. Anyway, you could have your own idea by taking a look at some of the winning photos here

Congratulations to all the winners and participants. It was a fun day. Hope to see you next time!

24 Oct 2010
Admiré