Steel wool -ing you.

There's always something new you see on instagram that makes you feel inspired to try out. I came across Norrisam's feed and showed it to a friend and we did some research on it. Steel wool photography. Who'd have thought that that scrubby thing you use to clean your frying pans would be used for anything else other than cleaning? I had a chance meeting with two other guys I saw attempting the very same thing at a rooftop a few weeks ago and they told me what I needed to get…and so we did.

Last weekend. it poured and it really did dampen our spirits. We occupied ourselves with led lights but we really wanted to play with fire…and few hours later, we just went ahead with it. Not really a cool idea to be wearing shorts and your favorite trainers…

It was pretty scary at first…but I got the hang of it. We only did four runs before we heard an old drunken man moaning. We're gonna try again in two weeks.

Afternoon Nap.

I was clearing up the folders on my desktop and came across this old photo taken two years ago when we took(or attempted to) an afternoon nap during a bridal shower weekend for our friend, Aqilah (extreme right).

Shidah in red.

Kinda overdue. I shot Shidah back in 2011. Didn't get round to uploading these. Even though, we've been friends a long time and sometimes, I feel that when I'm behind the camera I become a stranger and so it took awhile for her to get comfortable infront of it, but after she was more relaxed, it got easier. 

Hanoi from the Nikon

Hanoi was chaotic. Chaotic in the sense that there was so much going on. So much life and activity on every corner and every turn. Traffic in itself was entertaining in itself, just to watch the intersection from a high floor was filled with drama and suspense. I didn't enjoy it as much as I did Hong Kong or Bandung, but I guess that is due to the language barrier with reference to road signs and we got abit lost a few times. It's not a backward place, it still has its charm and you woulnd't see the french influenced architecture unless you looked up, cos ground level is just crazy. Free wi-fi is readily available at pretty much every cafe or restaurant. A side note though, if you're on the M1 network, it is best to check if they offer a data roaming plan. Cos once we got lost away trying to find a cat cafe(yeah, I know) from the main city and our map didn't cover the area, I got on my google map and did google searches to get our bearings and later got a text from M1 saying I had already amassed a $100 charge from data roaming. Their promo when I was in HK or KL, was usually capped at $18/day but I later found out that they did not have any telco partners in the area, so boohoo...

But anyway...

Needless to say, we walked a hell lot and it was hot and we did venture out of the city to Halong Bay which was beautiful but bearing in mind, there will be hundreds of other tour cruises around and so you  might have to bump your way to the front to get a perfect picture. We went on a Monday and it wasn't that bad. I can't imagine how a weekend would be like though.

Marni's Haircut

At the Railway.

Graffiti

There was this abandoned building near the location I was gonna take the bus back to Singapore from. I saw it on the first day and had to go in at least before I left. The walls were covered in graffiti and the space was just awesome in my books. A good enough venue for a show. Anyway, I nearly missed my bus cos I was taking shots of this place. Love.

Malacca backstreets

Malaccat.

Malacca scenes.

Finally got around to resizing my shots from Malacca. Yup.

That 70s guy

This is Sharil, we call him That 70S guy 'cos he is.

Shot with ISO 400 film

Nikon L35AD

Concrete.

Shot with ISO 400 film

Nikon L35AD

Dakota Baby Blue.

You're collar brings out your eyes. Such a beauty.

February 4th 2011

Nikon d40 x 16-35mm

Dakota Mignight Yellow.

Don't ask me where the head is.

Dakota Latte.

I call her Latte, cos she looks like coffee with milk just poured in. I'm sure she does have another name.

February 4th 2011

Nikon d40 x 16-35mm

Dakota mosaic.

February 4th 2011

Nikon d40 x 16-35mm