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I believe in the Mobile Movement. Don’t get left behind.
More and more people are buying Smartphones. Apple is selling more mobile devices everyday. The Android phones are growing fast in market share. Windows mobile phones are selling too. BlackBerry phones of course have been around for a while. I believe there will be HUGE financial transactions conducted on mobile devices in the near future. [...]
Macworld iPhone 4 cover shot with an iPhone 4
The cover of the latest issue of Macworld was shot with an iPhone 4, believe it or not, of another iPhone 4. And the image is fantastic coming out from this 5mp camera. Read about it here: Peter Belanger | Blog | Macworld iPhone 4 cover. See the actual photo here: http://www.peterbelanger.com/posts/75-iphone-4-photo-closeup
A time lapse of how a Macworld cover is made.
Peter Belanger is a photographer for Macworld magazine and he has posted a time lapse of the process of shooting to the final print of the cover of Macworld. Quite interesting. See it here:
Fantastic Time-Lapse of Space Shuttle Launch
Check this out. It’s AWESOME… Try to count how many cameras they used! What a great production.
Some really cool night aerial shots – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Check out this selection of work from photographer Jason Hawkes. NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
Earthquake in Chile – The Big Picture – Boston.com
See some amazing pictures of the earthquake in Chile, compiled by the Boston Globe. View it here: Earthquake in Chile – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
“One in 8 Million” – Amazing Photojournalism you must see
The New York Times has produced an amazing series of photojournalism about different types of people in New York. Photographs were taken by the New York Times photographer Todd Heisler. If you really want to see some incredible photojournalism work, make sure you click on the link here: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html?ref=multimedia
Dakar Rally 2010 – The Big Picture
The Boston Globe has put together some amazing photos from the Dakar Rally 2010. If you love sports photography, this will be something you don’t want to miss. Check out The Big Picture: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/dakar_rally_2010.html
Washington Times Slashes Newsroom Staff, Wipes Out Photo Department
This is very sad news, the entire photo department of the Washington Times was let off. See how bad times are.. pity those photographers, wonder what are they going to do now? Washington Times Slashes Newsroom Staff, Wipes Out Photo Department.
R.I.P. Michael Jackson – My tribute.
I have to confess, I’ve been swept away lately with the news of Michael Jackson’s death.. I’ve been staying up every night going online to read articles, news stories and clips of the news surrounding his death. One of my favourite websites is www.tmz.com where they provide the latest updates and inside details, they were [...]
On Photojournalism..
I’ve often wondered.. how many people in Malaysia are interested in Photojournalism? We all know there are hundreds if not thousands of people interested in wedding photography and portraiture but what is the percentage of people here that are interested in Photojournalism? I think the photography scene in Malaysia needs to be more balanced out [...]
Day 6 – Last day in Beverly Hills
The next day, Rob took us shopping in Beverly Hills.. I repeat, shopping in Beverly Hills.. The moment we walked into the shop owner greeted Rob like they were old friends.. The had really nice suits in this shop. The rest of our team followed the bus tour to Disneyland and we had decided that [...]
Day 5 – Los Angeles, California
I’ve just recovered from jet lag… and KL is so hot..! Anyway here’s some pictures I made after our convention. We flew out of Salt Lake City at 7 in the morning and arrived in LA at about 9am. Headed down to Santa Monica beach for a short walk. LA is one of the smoggiest [...]
Day 4 – Last day of convention
This was the last day of our Agel World convention and we attended some fantastic training sessions. I am so inspired by the Portugese Diamond Directors who just exploded their market in a few months and achieved Diamond in 3-4 months each! A Diamond Director earns roughly around 30k US Dollars a month! It was [...]
Back in Asia..
I’m on transit for an hour in Hong Kong International airport now. It’s 8am, my flight to KL departs at 9am. I managed to catch some sleep on the plane and also watched Iron Man the movie but I fell asleep before it ended..
Day 3 – AGEL WORLD – A worldwide phenomenon
I’m sitting in Los Angeles airport or LAX waiting for my flight to take off.. I’ve been so busy the last few days my schedule was so packed and I didn’t have time to go online at all. I’ll be home by Thursday afternoon, but anyways I’m gonna blog about my days in the US, [...]
A day around Salt Lake City
It’s just the day before the convention starts and we have some time to look around the city. I’ve had a long day and feeling just so tired now. The important day is tomorrow as the conference starts in the morning for 2 full day sessions. But here’s where we went today: Capitol Hill of [...]
A very short transit in San Francisco then to Salt Lake City
My flight left KL at about 9.30am on Wednesday and then transit in Hong Kong to quickly change flights.. didn’t even have enough time to enjoy a cigarette. From Hong Kong it was a 12 hour flight to San Francisco. I slept most of the way which was my intention because I never enjoyed long [...]
Coming To America…
I will be making a trip to the US for 8 days and my flight leaves in about 6 hours time… The purpose of my visit there is for a business convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, and after that I will be heading to Los Angeles for the usual tourist package.. I hope I [...]
Vote for The Greenest Person On The Planet
Recently I have been acquainted with a very nice gentleman whom I now call my friend, Matthias Gelber. He is an environmentalist, and a green entrepreneur. He reuses/recycles everything, and uses public transportation. And he is running for the Greenest Person On The Planet competition for 2008. He is now one of the last 5 finalists [...]
Top Photographer explains why he switched from Canon to Nikon
This is an interesting article and I share some of the same things he mentioned. And that’s why I am deciding to drop Canon and switch over to Nikon. Read the full article here. All my gear is up for sale. I will post the full details soon.
National Geographic photo director discusses the power of Photography
Photography is not dead yet. It’s just evolving. David Griffin, photo director at National Geographic, talks about and demonstrates the power of photography in this multimedia presentation on TED. In case you don’t know, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has [...]
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