Things to avoid after 5pm – Yet another new item

Stuff we cannot take after 5pm:

1. Coffee/Tea
2. Instant noodles
3. McDonalds
4. KFC
5. Oyster Sauce
6. Japanese seaweed flakes for rice.

and another new one we found at 4am this morning.

7. Miso soup.

3 nights.

Things to avoid after 5pm – Another new item

Stuff we cannot take after 5pm:

1. Coffee/Tea
2. Instant noodles
3. McDonalds
4. KFC
5. Oyster Sauce

and another new one we found at 4am this morning.

6. Japanese seaweed flakes for rice.

Two nights in a row. Facepalm.

Things to avoid after 5pm – New item

Stuff we cannot take after 5pm:

1. Coffee/Tea
2. Instant noodles
3. McDonalds
4. KFC

and new one we found this morning at 5am.

5. Oyster Sauce (!!)

Or Lu Lu style: Full Circle

Kyra. 2008

The last 3 years has been amazing journey. One of the things is that I have learned more about myself and what kind of mood I feel intrinsically for the images I want to make. I know now my eye naturally sees in black & white and my mood is more sombre and quiet. The exhibition we did in July this year was a big milestone for me. For the 1st time in my life, I showed the world my heart and my feelings. Honestly, I was very uncertain about public reception. I was very happy to find that on the whole, more people connected to the images than people who didn’t. I had expected less people to be enthused. Even so, deep down I knew the images came from my heart, so I had to embrace them as ‘me’ regardless, even if they were ‘or lu lu’ (means ‘very dark’. It’s how my elders would describe them in the Fujian tongue).

Then, a friend came over to Paris and he asked me over MSN if I could do family shoot for him here. At first, it was a nice surprise but I was a little worried after that coz he’s a also professional photographer (a very good wedding photographer btw, he’s Kelvin Koh from LightedPixels.com) and his eye was different from mine. I thought about it for a few days and finally discussed with him about my concerns. It was a tough one for me, to obey my natural eye or my professional training where it was best to stick to the norm with color and happy images? Which family in their right mind would want quiet b&w images for the primary shots? In the end, the image above was one of the key shots from the photo session. The child is held captive in the image and she seems to be floating. She is locked in an eternal moment of a memory.

In that process where i was editing the shots and doing post production, I began to realize that this viewpoint wasn’t something new. I was shooting some of my stuff like that way back. From Jodie’s stay at the hospital to the wedding stuff where I took complete artistic direction and experimented with b&w.

I discussed the b&w thing with Kelvin and we came to the conclusion that it’s a very niche area where I am going. I will have to learn new business stuff in this area. It will probably be an interesting ride. Again.

Kat keeping virgil at Jodie's bedside. 2000

Pat getting ready. 2002

Waiting for the bride. 2003