Saturday, September 30, 2006
• tasbih
for some people seat belt and air bag are just not enough to make them feel protected during a car ride. a greater protection from The Greatest is sometimes necessary for a safer journey like the one that i found in my tour guide's car in Hawaii.
**photo was taken with Canon EOS 300D
Friday, September 22, 2006
• walking home
our apartment building is located right on the middle of a roundabout. there are two ways to get there by feet; crossing the busy street above or walking through the underpass. for safety reason i prefer the last one during the day and the first one at night.
**photo was taken with Canon EOS 300D
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
• paparazzi
do you know that you'll gonna have an additional occupation when you get married? at least for one day you'll get the chance to experience how is it like to be a model on your own wedding day. that was what happened to my best friend nina and her groom, jon.
during the photo session in hawaii, jon told me in the beginning how they felt awkward, not sure how to pose around the photographers who were following every moves they made. i totally understood what he said. i was a bride too once. and it was not only for 1 day but for 3 straight days! every moves that laurent and i made were followed and photographed by 5 professional photographers. indeed, we felt like SUPASTAH'..!! :)
i told jon and nina not to think too much about the 2 photographers they hired who were following them like paparazzis. i think the key to have perfect wedding pictures is not a matter of how good the bride and groom poses' are. instead you just have to be relax, embrace the moment, focus on each other, be lost in your own lovey dovey world, and let the paparazzis be invisible and do the job; capturing memories that you'll gonna keep for the rest of your life.
**photo was taken with Canon EOS 300D
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
• rani & putri
it has became a tradition in my family to send specially designed greeting cards to our friends and relatives during holiday season. we started this tradition in the beginning of millennium when i designed a card using pictures of the youngest members in the family, photographed by Davy Linggar.
apparently a lot of people really liked it. and my Dad thought that we should continued with the idea of using my nieces' pics in the greeting cards. unfortunately, we can't afford Davy to take the pics every year. :) so i volunteer to take my nieces' pics instead, which i do every time i come home once a year.
of course you can't compare the results with Davy's. hehe.. i'm not a photographer. not even an amateur one. i just like to take pictures that's all. but it's always fun to take pictures of my nieces. they are just the most fun, adorable yet expressive models to work with.
**photo was taken in 2005 with Canon EOS 300D
loucee said it on 12:44 AM | |
• laurent and the giant rabbit
during a trip to south west of France in november 2005, our friend took us to many vineyards there. one of them was a chateau in Saint Emillion where we found this giant rabbit statue standing in the middle of the vineyards. we stayed there for a while, until i finally got the perfect moment to capture the statue with laurent trying to take its picture with his Olympus.
**photo was taken with Canon EOS 300D
loucee said it on 12:33 AM | |
Sunday, September 17, 2006
• a refugee in baltic
about 2 months ago, i got 'kicked out' from my own crib. not because i didn't pay rent or anything. but it was because my apartment needed some serious cleaning from a professional cleaning service. truth was, it wasn't that messy.. really. but my landlord wanted it to look as polished as possible since she would do a lot of viewings for possibly new owners. in other words, she wanted to sell my apartment ... and we'd be kicked out eventually. *sigh*
due to some tight project deadlines, i didn't plan to go out at all on that day. thought i could let the cleaner did whatever s/he needs to do while i'd be working somewhere in a corner. well... it didn't happened, because they were FIVE of them! it looked like as if my apartment was being raided by a cleaner squad. there was no chance for me to work peacefully anywhere in my own apartment. so, yeah.. i had no choice than just let them did the job, while i was trying to think in which place i should be spending my time in the next 8 hours [yes, that was the amount of time they needed to clean my super micro 'mansion'. geezz.... ]
i finally ended up at the Baltic museum that morning. i actually just went there 2 days before and pretty much had seen all of their exhibitions. but i couldn't think of any other places to go. besides, Baltic has this book store with a great selection of design books which you probably can't find anywhere else in Newcastle. i spent 4 hours browsing the books, sipping capuccino in their coffee shop, while daydreaming, looking at the Erwin Wurm sculpture outside, thinking about my projects and of course taking some pictures.
**photo was taken with Canon Ixus i
• eight
i live on the 8th floor. and this is what you'll gonna see as soon as the elevator doors are opened.
**photo was taken with Canon Ixus i
Saturday, September 16, 2006
• the under the sky series
it's all started when i went to Hawaii last july for vacation. while waiting for the gondola ride at the Polynesian Cultural Center, i got so bored and started to take picture of my self with the ixus. surprisingly the picture that i took while squatting came out really nice. with the blue sky [i always love taking pics of blue sky] and coconut tree as a background. it was really hawaiian.
since that moment, i always try to take pictures of my self with the same angle wherever i go. given the chance to travel to so many different places, i got inspired to start a series pictures of me being under many different skies with a little bit of help from local objects to indicate where i am.
so far i've only been in Newcastle and Edinburgh since i got back from Hawaii. and i'm really looking forward to travel again soon to add more pics in this series.
**photos were taken in [from left to right]: Benton-Newcastle, Hawaii, Edinburgh, Gateshead-Newcastle.
loucee said it on 10:24 PM | |
• The Angel of The North
just went to The Angel of The North with my friend Ade, yesterday. this gigantic statue is one of the must-see things when you visit the north east part of England. we went there by bus, 20 minutes ride from Newcastle city center. i brought both my cameras [Canon EOS 300D and Canon Ixus i] with me, and gave one of them to Ade so that we can take pictures of each other. :)
**photo was taken with Canon EOS 300D
• why change?
i don't take pictures as much as i used to now. in the past, i could always find some time to go for photo hunting with my Canon EOS 300D and produced a series of photos where i ended up putting in this page as a set. now, i found it's getting more difficult to find the time and mostly is... the mood!
yes, i must admit that i'm a very moody person, especially when it comes to creating a nice set of photos. but it doesn't mean i stop taking pictures. i still do. most of the times, it happened when i don't plan it. good thing is i always carry my super mini Canon ixus i in my bag. so when i find interesting objects and the mood strikes in, i can always take them.
the changes of format in this part of blog is made because i still want to share those pictures. not as a set but as a single piece. i might put other people's picture too if i find them interesting or simply because the pictures are related to me... :) while the past albums are still here for you to see, i'm not sure if i'd add it in the future. but for sure, i'll try to update the blog as much as i can.
enjoy!!
**photo was taken with Canon EOS 300D by ade prakasa
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