First Fashion show Shoot

I hadn't shot fashion shows before, and it was a lot of fun shooting catwalks for the first time on Friday. The multi-coloured lights in the background and the models constant actions kept me on my toes.. and made the shoot a lot more engaging and challenging.

By the end of it, my right wrist was tired from holding the Nikon D300 (with 70-105mm lenses) up but it was well worth it.

Ragamala Dance Performance at Carleton

Ragamala Dance troupe put up a 90-minute performance at Carleton College.

[ B r a c k e t i n g ]

Bracketing is used in photography to create certainty-- overexposing and underexposing a shot by one stop to make sure that you get a good exposure, or rather more choices.

Intriguingly, my last few weeks at Carleton seems like a closing bracket. As I go through my days, I find myself reflecting on the beginnings at Carleton and observe that events (and my state of being) then is like a mirror replica of how I am now. (Of course, this replica is not exactly symmetrical).

But I fear that this closing bracket would make inaccessible the knowledge I captured at Carleton in the past 4 years.

unsynched cycles

It is spring again.

I remember very vividly, photographing a tree outside of Asia house last year, when its first reds started to appear in late March.

Yesterday, I saw the same pattern--two months later in the cycle of the year. I guess the earth doesn't have to follow the calendar times that humans impose on it.

Light and Colour Returns

When I brought my COMPS books to the library return desk today, I feel like a huge, heavy wet blanket was lifted. Abigail Han and Kenneth Lum who was with me to witness the 'ceremony.' Was kind enough to put up with my dramatization.

But really, undertaking this academic endeavor was a rather long and daunting process. I think I wanted to do it well and so I ended up sacrificing some aspects of my life to it. But I am I did it (because I know I would not want to go through it again) and glad that I am now moving onto a different phase of life.