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New Theme

a70 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:48:43 +0000

Whew, new theme up! Should be more mobile-friendly too. :-)
Based on Ambiru and customized for the photoblog. Menu-items are now on the bottom of the page.
If you notice anything not working or not looking right, please let me know!

Happy New Year!

a70 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:09:19 +0000

2009 was probably the most exciting year for me, as well as being one of the big turning points in my life.
Some of the things include: successfully graduating from university, taking a once-in-a-life backpacking trip to Europe, starting a full-time job, upgrading to a 40D with a few lenses, shooting a couple of gigs, and more recently – my trip to Taiwan. I have been extremely fortunate along every step of the way. Looking back, my schedule has been very very busy at times, but that’s what makes it fulfilling!

In terms of my photoblog, last year I had made a new year resolution to edit more photos for 2009 – and I did keep that promise, with a total of ~1500 photos posted, my biggest year yet (probably because of all the Europe photos)! Though I did drop the number of postings to 112…

For the upcoming year, I hope to finish editing off the second half of my Europe trip (yikes! I wish I can procrastinate less and show you all the beauties of Italy and Germany), and also my trip to Taiwan.

Lastly I want to thank everyone who still reads and leaves comments on my photoblog – you have no idea how much it motivates me to become a better photographer and share images with everyone. So thank you *bows* :-) Happy new year!

Happy New Year and 2009 Photoblog images in review (click for large)

Cause I’m leaving on a jet plane

a70 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:30:51 +0000

“… don’t know when I’ll be back again.”

Ok actually I do know :-D
Was I kidding myself when I said no more extended trips this year besides EuroTrip? I’ll be away for the next two and half weeks to Taiwan, I still hope to post some photos while away though! See you all soon!

Shutter speed: 1/100s / Aperture: f/3.2 / Focal: 38mm / ISO: 400

Happy 2009!

a70 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:00:34 +0000

This is a mosaic of the 626 photos that I had posted last year on my photoblog in the image of the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria where I took a small trip to during the summer. Click for the original size!

My New Year’s resolution for the photoblog is to spend more time editing and posting photos whenever I can (I was too occupied with other stuff last year that I didn’t get to edit much photos towards the end of last year). Hope I can do it!

Happy New Year everyone!

Happy New Year with a review of 2008!

Parachuter

a70 — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:28:39 +0000

You might see a fresh look to the site today if you come out of your RSS hiding ;-)

Parachuter landing by Makapu’u Point, Oahu

Shutter speed: 1/400s / Aperture: f/7.1 / Focal: 165mm / ISO: 100

So I was taking a look at my site stats a while back to find that only 5% of my visitors still run on the 800×600 resolution:

The 600-pixel width on the images were starting to look a bit small to me on a 1280 resolution, so I wanted a 1-column theme so the images could be slightly larger (800 pixels). I did some heavy modifications to the ShinRa House Blu theme and I should be sticking with this for a while (or until I get bored of it). It’s been tested with Firefox and IE (there are bugs, but I’m not going to bother) and the smaller resolution photos still look ok. If you spot any errors let me know! I’ll also need to add back my “About” page some time…

Most of the stuff from the sidebar now is hidden in the menu to the top, in case you can’t find it.

Well, how do you like the change? ;-)

Week-long break

a70 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:03:28 +0000

I’d love to complete my the ‘I Love Blogs’ month-long photo set, but I will have to go on a mandatory break. Reason being – I won’t be here! I was going to set it to auto-post everyday but didn’t get much time to edit my photos.

Where am I going? Where I was in January ;-) See you all when I get back!

Mystery package

a70 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:44:55 +0000

Last Friday, as I stepped in the door, I saw a brown dented box sitting on the living room table…

Mystery box addressed to me

Shutter speed: 1/50s / Aperture: f/3.5 / Focal: 18mm / ISO: 400

What’s under here?

Shutter speed: 1/80s / Aperture: f/4.5 / Focal: 18mm / ISO: 400

Lo and behold, it’s my new Canon Speedlite 430EX flash that I ordered online a few weeks ago. It has arrived safely from the US without being taxed a single cent! :-D

Canon flash

Shutter speed: 1/25s / Aperture: f/4.5 / Focal: 38mm / ISO: 100

I want to try portrait shots!

Now extending an open call to anyone who would like a free photoshoot session ;-) Email or leave me a comment.

Excited

a70 — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:08:22 +0000

New telephoto in less than a week! Can’t wait! ;-)

Happy New Year!

a70 — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:00:34 +0000

This is a mosaic of all the photos (1280 of them!) that I posted on my photoblog from the past year – 2006 – in an image of Waikiki Beach sunset, where I was for the last day of the year. Click for the original size! Enjoy!

Happy new year to everyone! Hope 2007 bring lots of joys (and photos)! :-)

(and no, I used a software, Foto-Mosaik, to do this!)

2006 – a year in review

Server/connection issues

a70 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:36:44 +0000

I’m still here…

It’s just that for the past few days I’ve been having some network issues between me and the server. I don’t think you’ll notice anything different – it’s just me. :-( Even posting this takes me 5 minutes.

I’ve got a post lined up, but can’t upload the images. What’s a photoblog without photos ;-) Hopefully it’ll be up soon.