Frozen In Time

Frozen In Time
One of the satisfactions that I get from photography is when I am successful in making the seemingly mundane look interesting. I am glad to come across this essay on the web today which shares a similar opinion. The idea of creating something interesting from the mundane was also what I had in mind when I captured this shot almost 2 years ago during my trip to Switzerland. Hope that I’m successful here 😛 The ice must have been frozen for ages on the Alps. The thought of actually seeing water that has been frozen for what might have been millennia was certainly mind-boggling.

Colours of the City

Colours of the City
Fireworks are a welcome sight to the majority of us city-dwellers in Singapore. I made my way down to town yesterday to catch some pictures of the Singapore Fireworks Celebrations 2008.

On an aside… I have been searching for a good RAW converter ever since I moved up to my Canon 40D. I found CaptureOne 4 a disappointment although I was previously very happy with the quality I could squeeze out from CaptureOne 3 with my 20D RAW files. I actually bought a copy of Lightroom (version one) which looked initially very promising but was disappointed with the poor colors that I obtained. Adobe has now gone on to release version 2 of Lightroom which now comes with a new DNG Profile Editor system which closely matches the excellent colours I could get out of Canon’s DPP software. Given the excellent interface of Lightroom vs DPP, looks like I will be going back down the Lightroom path soon…