Archive for February 2008
Maid cafe in Penang
First it was Sakura trees, now I find a maid cafe. I had heard word around Penang that a maid cafe had indeed open but I was unable to confirm this or not.
Well today after lunch I was contacted by CC who gave me the weblink giving the location of this cafe and their information (it was their website). He had gone there for lunch with his colleague thus was the reason why he had canceled “Usual Friday”.
Sakura in Penang
Would you believe? I figure you wouldn’t and you’re right, it’s not really a Sakura tree but it sure looks like it.
This was spotted on my way back from the Epson seminar that day. When I saw it I knew I wanted to take it, I asked my passengers if they wanted to stop there so we photograph it but they all had matters they needed to finish up. So I dropped them all off at home and went back home first to rest a bit anyway as the light then was still too harsh (afternoon).
At about 5:30pm I went out and picked up pointNshoot since he also wanted to shoot the sakura.
We parked right across the road from it and started to shoot outside as the compound where the tree was located is actually private property
Epson advance photography and printing seminar
We found out about this event from a posting in Rojak Studio by TY informing that a seminar by Epson showcasing their printer, scanner, PMP as well as color management software was going to be held at the Holiday inn at Batu Ferringi.
The event was to start at 7:45am, so ChewingGum, Cham, mybest and I headed out at about 6:40am and headed to McD at Sunrise gurney for breakfast while we waited for the rest of the gang to arrived.
So after a good breakfast we headed off at about 7:20am and reached there roughly on time. The event started off with registration and a brief introduction of what the plan would, at about 8 or so was the model shooting where we would have to pick the best pic from our shots to be printed by Epson’s line of printers. There would also be a lucky draw where the prizes would be Epson’s latest line of consumer base printers.
Once in a while……
A tree in Penang will bloom full of flowers, this particular tree was located on a stretch of road leading to sunway Tunas. Here are some shots of the flowers, I had wanted to use a longer lens but my sigma 70-200mm had been loaned to another friend.
So I had to make do with the 85mm I had.
Top model of the world 2008 at Penang
This model shooting was held last Sunday at Gurney Hotel, Penang by the Velvet studio productions.
Our liaison with Velvet studio was Andytan and NikonK who managed to gathered a small group of people from both fotokrazy and rojakstudio here in Penang.
The event started at 9am and finished at 11am. We all went to the Subway place at Gurney hotel to have our breakfast and as a gathering point, it was also located next to starbucks so I managed to get my fix for the morning as well as the coffee at Subway was subpar.
There were 7 models and all supplied by velvet production, the entry fee for this contest was RM30 per photographer.
At 9am we made our way to the swimming pool at the hotel where we then registered and briefed on the rules and regulation governing the event (honestly, I don’t think anyone was paying ANY attention). So without further adieu we were set “loose” to take our photographs of the models.
