Category: Travel

Taken on vacation trips

Looking Within

Looking Within
You might have seen a similar posting on my dad’s photoblog for this picture, which was taken at the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, UK… That’s hardly surprising as we took the pictures probably just seconds apart. I took the lazier way out though (with my point-and-shoot G10) as I had already kept my 40D in the bag. Hence the difference in aspect ratio (the G10 is 4:3 whereas my dad’s Nikon D700 is 3:2). I think my dad’s DSLR version probably has better detail and colour rendition if seen full-size although I must admit that the results I got from the G10 weren’t too shabby either! 🙂

Barcoded Steps

Barcoded Steps
The morning sunlight cast against these steps leading to The Lowry in Manchester created interesting patterns of light and shadow, creating an almost abstract picture when taken up close. Photography is in essence, painting with light (and shadow) and this picture exemplifies this concept.

Talking about light and shadow, my father will be exhibiting close to 400 photographs in a solo exhibition that chronicles his involvement with photography for the past 50 years. If you are in Singapore, the exhibition might well worth a visit! More details at https://www.lite-n-shadow.com

Wading Through

Wading Through
A picture taken at the Glasgow Botanical Gardens, right across the B&B we were staying at on our trip to the UK in April… As an aside, if you found yourself having difficulties accessing this site over the weekend, here’s the reason why…

My web-hosting service (at Yahoo!) gave me a big scare over the weekend when more than half my hosted files disappeared after a routine upgrade of the WordPress software which this photoblog runs on. The upgrade on this blog had actually run well with no problems. When I tried to run a similar upgrade on my dad’s photoblog, a big crash occurred during which I was not even able to access a single of my, my wife’s and my dad’s hosted sites. Even the Yahoo! web-hosting control panel refused to run, making the whole of my web domain at elcreations.org crippled. Perhaps I should have done a backup prior to the upgrade… I was almost resigned to losing 5 years worth of work here, not counting the collective blogs and memories on my dad’s and wife’s blogs.

Fortunately, calls to Yahoo tech support were toll-free on Skype. I am eternally grateful to the whiz at Yahoo tech support who managed to find an “unsupported” way of restoring my site to the “snapshot” backup done the day before the crash. Without him, I think I might still be manually clicking each file in the snapshot (at least more than 1000 of them) now in a desperate effort to restore this site. One thing’s for sure… I am going to make a nice big backup of this site…. before I attempt the upgrade again *shudder*