Category: Decisive Moment

Fleeting moments frozen in time

Got Milk?

Got Milk?
Contrary to many modern cultures, where the New Year is celebrated with much pomp and revelry, Balinese celebrate their New Year, or Nyepi, with a day of silence. Nyepi is usually preceded 3-4 days by the Melasti ceremony, during which communal prayer sessions are held toward the ocean. Effigies of God and temple accessories of each village are also brought in a long and colorful procession to the beach to be cleansed. The Melasti ceremonies are colorful events during which many opportunities arise for candid photography. The above is one of the candid pictures I managed to get during the session we witnessed at Pantai (Beach) Lembeng.

Big Cat, Big Yawn

Big Cat, Big Yawn
I came across an article on “hyper-real portraits” using the high-pass filter effect on Photoshop in a recent issue of Digital SLR Photography Magazine and decided to try it on another of my recent “yawning-lion” pictures I captured at the Singapore Zoo. The effect here is rather subtle here but compared to the original, there is a bit more contrast accentuating the expression on the lioness’ face, which was what I was looking out for when I started out to post-process the picture.