This is my first entry of year 2010. And just of today I have finally decided to renew this domain CREATIONHEART.COM. I did it because of the encouragements from you, you and you. I am excited for the many many photos I will be posting here in the months to come.
I felt I have been lagging too much on updating here. I should definitely be posting more regularly even though days are busy. One month is just too much for an excuse. Haha! Time never waits. We are moving on from an incredible January to a fabulous-going-to-be Febuary. Last month was great, but let’s look forward to Feb.
Felix
好些年月未更新了，不是太忙，就是太懒。上次本来更新写到一半，不过那种想写点什么却又不只要写什么的感觉一直回荡着。下次吧。最近收到了非常让我欣慰得消息 － 国内终于可以打开我这个网站了，还收到了的留言，一点以外至于还真的是特别的感动。于是得送上一次中文的更新。
圣诞前夕去了一躺Bay of Island。原本打算要露营谁帐篷的，没想到计划不如变化，结果跟设想的还不大一样。最后多亏Andy的车够大，我们三人行终于体验了一个披星戴月的夜晚。
圣诞虽然结束了，今年圣诞游行没去，音乐会也没参加。尽管没有感受到太多的节日的气氛，不过周围得空气仍然懒洋洋的，毕竟新的一年快要到来了。我也不得不再次感叹一下时间的飞快。时间的的却却是不堪回首的东西啊！也许因为09年有太多的遗憾，我正对2010年充满了期待，这将会是非常不一样的一年。
最近晚上常常“蜗”在“居”里看《蜗居》。此电视剧可惜国内禁播了，强烈推荐！
最后送上最新拍摄的12月个人写真 <KERA>。
It feels like it’s been a while since our last i-week, which was not that long ago. Originally we planned to chill out at Browns Bay and Mission Bay in two separate groups, guys and girls. However because we live in Auckland so we don’t get reliable weather forecasts as its just so unpredictable. I realised the weather in Auckland this week has been very bad and I really feel blessed that I spent half of the week down South Island. Going back to our i-week, so last night we decided to change relaxing outdoor activities to relaxing indoor stuff – PIZZA, DVD, PHOTOSHOOT.
Zionites are shy people so it’s fun to get everybody to at least act like relaxed in front of the camera. We all interact differently in front of the camera, silly poses, cool poses, CEO poses…To those who left early and miss the photoshoot. What a shame!
Our studio officially had our grand opening last Sunday and we had a tremendous busy day serving customers and those who came to celebrate with us on this special day. We were thrilled that we had a recording breaking sales volume on the day. Exciting! I will post some photos of our studio in the future post.
Yesterday we had an indoor portrait session with Chance and Elva. Finally I could try out some studio lighting and the result is…pleasing. Here’s a teaser. : )
If something could make me feel emotional. This is it.
We spent the past 3 days in between Queenstown and Christchurch. After we finished first day of shooting under cloudy weather at Queenstown we headed to the town centre to have dinner as usual. At about 9 o’clock, Eva (our makeup artist) and I decided to go for a walk while waiting for Denny & Nancy as well as Nancy’s mum and Cos to finish their meal.
And as we were walking we discovered something special…
While walking, the entire Queenstown was covered by clouds of fire and this stunning sunset. People were all discussing and giving praise to the beautiful sunset. Amazed, captivated, people slowly gathered around the lakeside, enjoying this peaceful moment.
Many were sitting around the lakeside.
Sill.
Quiet.
Silent.
We didn’t want to move as we were afraid we would break the peace.
Simply nobody wanted to miss this sunset.
Many were with their cameras…
Photography skills was irrelevant.
The beauty of the stunning sunset created by God is self-explanatory enough, regardless what camera you use.
It was extremely peaceful, to the extent of allowing one to sense its hidden sadness.
If something could make me feel emotional. This is it.
Simply stunning.
As a photographer how can we bless others with the professional skills and equipments we have? Besides being doing documentary for local churches, meaningful events what are the other options out there we can do? As I was browsing Rich Legg’s blog I came across Dale Welcome’s video GIVING BACK AS A PHOTOGRAPHER (click to watch), which inspired me to get involved in the community and offer our services to the underprivileged for free. So those who can’t afford having professional portrait taken will have something nice to keep for a life time.
Here’s a photo taken at the Waihiki Island 2 weeks ago. Less is more. : )
I have been wondering what to write for this blog entry last night, so I fell asleep right in front of my laptop and have to continue working on it this morning. I had an awesome shoot with this couple yesterday afternoon and the lighting was working in our favour. In the past weeks the weather has been a bit unpredictable. Today you get strong wind under harsh sunlight and tomorrow you get this moody clouds all over you. But yesterday we had perfect lighting. I mean, what else could be better when you are on a shoot? But I guess that’s life right? Life is unpredictable despite how you want life to be, and often you just need to live with what you’ve got. The lighting, the subject, the environment etc.
It didn’t take long and it came Mei Yen’s photoshoot session. I was quite glad that I postponed the session to a day after as there was too much stuff on my plate and secondly, the rain. So on Thursday everything just fitted together and we headed for makeup and had our photoshoot in North Shore. Mei Yen did her homework pretty well: shopping, researching, practicing how to pose and how to make facial expressions you name it, so she could nail the pose pretty much within a few shots. This shoot was a bit different from the previous ones as I had to only work with available light and without flash but the result was great.
To see the entire set please click HERE.
