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[17 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 904 views]
my|4walls – Art photography installation launch

Got this off an email. There is a new gallery is in town and  a new art photography exhibition will be in place. A good start for 2010!
The my|4walls exhibition will be launched at
date: Friday, 15 jan 2009
time: 8pm onwards
venue: naturally @MUSE the Art Gallery
268 Upper Bukit Timah Rd
#03?09, Singapore 588210
date: Friday, 15 jan 2009
time: 8pm onwards
venue: naturally @MUSE the Art Gallery
268 Upper Bukit Timah Rd
#03?09, Singapore 588210
4 local photographers will be taking in this exhibition Wong Kin Leong, Fusheng,  Elaine Lim and John Heng

Off the press release :
In our fast paced …

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[16 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 854 views]
Photoscape – Basic Photo Editor

For those who are not into the heavy and costly Photoshop application can try Photoscape, a handy and simple photoeditor. Moreover it is free although donation is always welcome.  I think it is perfect for those who captured photos and want to post small size photos on the web such as blogs or social networking sites.
Some of Photoscape functions :

Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a slideshow
Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, …

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[5 Nov 2009 | 2 Comments | 1,115 views]
Review : Amazon Kindle 2

I know the Amazon Kindle 2 ebook reader is not a photographic equipment but I thought readers of this blog might be interested in other electronic gadgets. I always been an avid reader and usually borrow books from the libraries in Singapore.  I  would be quite willing to buy books that are not available in the libraries or books that I would like to keep eg photography books.  Therefore I  was quite interested to know more about the Kindle. The other ebook reader I had tried was a small PDA.  It …

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[18 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 604 views]
Experience of a Lifetime – Myanmar – Part 3

Mandalay
From Kalaw I would move on to Mandalay, where I have the most interesting encounter with a trishaw driver, Mr Win Tin. Mr Win Tin offered to drive me around Mandalay. I told him I would get him to give me a ride down to U Bein Bridge in the afternoon if he was still around when I came back after a walk around the town. I walked away thinking that he would not be waiting at the same spot after a span of a few hours since he could …

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[25 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 635 views]
Experience of a Lifetime – Myanmar – Part 2

 
 

Inle Lake
 
 

 I was glad I visited the Golden Rock temple and happily I set off for my ride back to Bago (K2500) the next morning. This was the start of a backbreaking 16 hours bus journey to Inle Lake via Bago. I paid and another 500 Kyats to upgrade my seat to sit next to the bus captain. Was it worth the ‘upgrade’? Well my 1.78cm body frame could use whatever extra space I could pay for. Again, this was not a tourist bus but a local bus. Ninety percent …