This photo was taken on the ANZ Dawn Service at Kings Park. This time I wanted to experiment with Daido Moriyama’s Lightroom preset. Somehow I begin to like Daido’s style and photos: dark, full of noise and contrast. 
Photo: Old Friends
Taken when I was walking down the Perth CBD with some friends for lunch. I think the background was too heavily exposed, but the contrast between the figures and the background made the photo. The man on the left side (who is actually one of my friends) is a bit annoying, though.
Photo: Lady in the Crowd – from the ANZAC Day Dawn Service
ANZAC Day on April 25th is a special day in Australia when people commemorate those who served and died in military operations for the country. Every year, the families and young people have been encouraged to take part in dawn services. In the city of Perth, the dawn service is held at Kings Park.
I was there to try to capture the moments of life where thousands of people, old and young, gathered in silence. I felt amazed to witness how Australians were so proud of their country and respectful of their heroes.
Not so many photos were taken. After some editing, I only found some “average” photos and maybe 1 – 2 “okay” photos. It’s pretty hard to take photos in a dark environment, even though I used a flash (a Leica SF 20 which is not so powerful).
So I decided to post this photo (no flash) below. I like the look of this young lady standing out from the crowd.
Photo: Lady in Shadow
Recently, I have been trying to create a new habit to bring my camera with me everywhere I go. Last week, I took almost 200 photos just from my office – home route. After editing, I got about 25 decent photos which I then post processed them with Lightroom and Silver Efex Pro 2. At the end, I came up with 1 – 2 good photos only.
Like this one below which was taken in Perth CBD when I was walking home from the office around 5 pm.
From Eric Kim Street Photography Workshop
I flew from Melbourne to Perth, over the weekend, left my wife with our 2 little children, to attend Eric Kim Street Photography Workshop on April 14 – 15, 2012 at Michaels. The workshop was great and I made some new friends. Eric’s clearly a good teacher and a passionate street photographer. Melbourne’s weather was very nice, just perfect for our street shooting sessions.
At the end of the workshop, each participant was asked to present the best photo they had taken and received feedbacks and critiques from other participants…and below is mine.
To be honest, I didn’t think this was my best photo. And I still don’t. I guess it was because I was running out of time when I chose that photo so I didn’t have enough time to have a better look on other photos. So when I revisited every other photo I took in Melbourne, I think I would choose this one here.
