Monster Huge Mushroom!

Ikea One Stop Shop

"You can get all sorts of things at Ikea!" is really not far from the truth at all, but this photo of a child waiting in the shopping cart while his mother picks up items nearby but out of shot adds an additional and comic dimension to that statement! The fact that the child is blonde and wearing Ikea colours too makes it seem as though you could pick up Swedish kids in an Ikea store.

This is an old photo, but somehow I never phlogged it here, and it's just such a cute photo. A photo with true "kawaii" value.


Tech spex: Nikon CoolPix 995

Fokker 50

The last 2 days I've been in Penang to see a customer and help them resolve some issues that turned up. However the most interesting thing about this trip for me has been the flight up in a Fokker 50 operated by the new local budget airline, Firefly (http://www.fireflyz.com.my/). I just love turboprop aircraft!

It's a Hasselblad

Today I plonked down serious money for a Hasselblad Ixpress V96C medium format digital back from Procamera.com.my, Shriro Malaysia's official online webstore to bring my Bronica SQ SLR system into the digital era.


Tech spex: shot with a Nikon D80, AF-S 18-55G DX-II lens, Nikon SB-22 flash

The digital back features a Kodak 16-megapixel CCD sensor with an active sensing area of 36.7mm x 36.7mm, a far cry from the full 6x6 frame which is 55.6mm x 55.6mm, producing an effective 1.5x crop on all my lenses, effectively meaning that I no longer have a viable wide angle on my Bronica.