Water Filter

It’s gotten so bad, we’ve installed a water filter for the washing machine water inlet. This is what the filter looked like after just 2 days of use!

Mystery Material

The flowers outside Century Square here in Cyberjaya have these things all over the soil that they are planted in.

Chicken Rice

Finally got the Fuji S2 Pro back from the shop. It's taken an incredibly long time to get it repaired and almost a farce. Took this shot of roast chickens at lunchtime whilst waiting to order my chicken rice.

First Outing With Large Format Film

Not sure how well it went, but Sam and I went out to Bukit Gasing in PJ this morning, arriving at6:12am. He was there to shoot pictures for a freelance assignment he has, so I took the opportunity to see if I could shoot some nice sunrise on 4x5 colour slide film. As luck would have it, it was drizzling and cloud cover was 100%. Although the drizzling did stop and leave us enough time before sunrise to try our luck at some shots, we never did get to see the sun.

I had all the equipment that you see below squeezed into my LowePro rucksack. Missing from the picture is a 2nd film holder, which has already been sent off for processing and a tripod, which was carried separately.



No idea how well or badly the shots will turn out, but either way, it all counts towards learning to use large format effectively and become productive with it. Even loading the film was a bit of an experience! Key learnings from this morning’s session:

1. I need a better (sturdier) tripod, but I knew this already... and make sure you have a cable release.



2. When loading film holders, it is crucial that as part of the procedure, you remove ALL the dark slides from ALL holders first BEFORE beginning the loading process, regardless of whether you are loading in a dark room or a changing bag. This makes it easier to know which have been loaded and which ones have not. :D

3. Must remember to check out film characteristics BEFORE going out and using it!

The final image should look something like this ..



Sam in the undergrowth, taking his shots.

Crash Test Dummy

Saw this guy driving along the road to Cyberjaya. As far as I can tell, he is driving a completed lorry chassis to another factory where they will add the lorry body itself. I stopped and snapped this pic from across the road. I guess you could come up with a multitude of captions:

"Crash test dummy"
"Daredevil ups the ante in his next stunt by replacing safety seat with wooden crate and forgoing vehicle body altogether"