Picture of the Day - Drag Queen
Monday, October 16, 2006
After visiting the Rhine Valley, I took a 2h train to Cologne. You have seen the Kölner Dom in one of my previous post. Let me show you some German street scenes, people I met and food tasted in the upcoming blog entries.
I took this picture at one of the many events of Cologne Gay Pride; I think the most famous event is the Gay Pride parade. This event, which I witnessed, was not so big in scale; it's more like a carnival. There are more provocative images...
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Wine and Coffee from Rudesheim
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Spreading across the whole valley, grapevines abound in the Rhine Valley. Not surprisingly, this region produces fine grape wine. Rudesheim coffee can be thought of as Bailey's but not so creamy - coffee with a hint of Brandy.
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Flickr Pro
I just splurged ~SGD40 on a Flickr Pro account.
I have always wanted to upgrade this photo sharing account but have been "psychoing" myself not to waste money on this kind of stuff. However, being a part-time official photographer for USC kind of forces me into upgrading. It's quite taxing for me with like so many people clicking on me asking me for the pictures taken during an event (I experienced it during the recent MAF). I also feel quite bad if I don't distribute the pictures timely. I know how disappointing it can be when a photographer promised to send a picture to me but in the end he/she didn't; well, people are busy and this kind of trivial stuff is easy to forget.
The nice thing about this Flickr account is 2GB of monthly upload limit (freaking large amount ~ 500 6MP high quality JPEG), unlimited photo-sets and the permanent archiving of the quality images uploaded (they don't resize and degrade the files like when I had my free account).
Ok, now that you know my account exists... check it out if you have asked me to take your picture or you know I have taken a picture of you. I will upload higher quality than before pictures so that you can download them off from Flickr and keep or print them. Frankly, I dislike those tiny weeny images that are optimized for web.
So next time, if you find a picture that is 1800x1200 in a photo-set under my Flickr account, it would most probably be optimized for 4R printing. Tell the photo lab "NO CORRECTION" and the print should turn out quite good.
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Picture of the Day - USP MAF
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Here is a picture taken from yesterday's USP Mid-Autum Festival (MAF) belated celebration. Aren't they cute?
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Deliver Us From Evil
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Have you seen the trailer for Deliver Us From Evil? This is a fierce and powerful movie that has just won "Best Documentary Feature" at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
I can't say much here. The content is too sensitive. I might just be invited for a coffee by gahmen. Watch it.
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