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.