Category: Decisive Moment

Final Heat

Lip Seng


The South East Asian Athletics Meet at the Singapore National Stadium in the early 80’s provided me with an opportunity to capture this decisive moment image.

In this day and age, you may think that I might have used the motor drive to take a series of exposures (and then chose the best picture). Actually, I had only one shot of this right moment. For such a picture, your timing really had to be right on the dot. Incidentally, this image was the Grand Prize winner of the Canon Photo Contest, 1984. The prize included a Canon new F1 with motor drive unit and two lenses with focal length from 50mm to 210mm. On top of that, I enjoyed a free stay at the Mandarin Hotel with my family.

Only One Is Free

Lip Seng

My last outing in Bali, October 2003 was another successful one (photographically!). Besides photographing other subjects, I came across this interesting image. Cockerels in Bali are reared for cockfight and are considered as precious commodities! Since cockfight was declared illegal, they can now only be seen during the temple festivals. Obviously, this freed one was not one of those that was reared for the cockfight.

Waves of Cottesloe Beach

Lip Seng

Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia was selected as the Best Beach of the Year for 2003. The attractions there, are more than just sand beach and waves. As a matter of fact, this place has lots of photographic potential if you happen to be a photographer! During my visit in November 2003, I was attracted by the strong waves from the sea. Will feature more images of this beach on this web later.