Saturday, October 20, 2007

Canon Photo Marathon 2007

Can't believe i climbed out of bed at 0545hrs today for the Photo Marathon. YZ and I had signed up for the fun of it and were eagerly anticipating it last night. What we didn't expect is the full body workout! Almost like having ran a full marathon! My back was breaking after only the first theme! We were supposed to take photos fitting the themes given in the time allocated. One theme was given out at 0900, 1200 and 1500 hrs each respectively.

The first theme was Passion. huh... i was hoping that it would be rain... Cos it was raining... haha... anyway, saw that a lot of the participants started swarming to Food Republic to shoot the hawkers and eaters... us? we decided to just walk where our feet bring us!

This was what i submitted. Saw this mag lying on a sale rack at bras basah and just shot it on a spur of cheekiness. Was starving by the time we went back and submitted our photos.


The second theme was more challenging than the first cos the theme was a challenging Challenge. (@_@) It was a big challenge especially when we (the brave, lone souls using compact cameras) were being drowned by the pool of DSLRs. I wanted to submit this photo but YZ and QY said the latter was better...





The last assignment was Playtime.

Great! Everyone had the same idea of finding some kid to shoot. QY suggested shooting animals in their playtime. Problem is where do we find animals?! Our attempt at shooting butterflies and monitor lizards (gasp!) failed flat. Eventually some guys we saw at Millenia Walk managed to persuade a pair of siblings to pose for them. Alas! the limited capabilities of our cameras failed to capture the essence of the mood. In the end, handed in a photo i took in the morning outside the dance school.

Dunno if it is due to the physical or mental exercise, we were hungry the whole day. Been eating drinking eating drinking. Although we were all exhausted and drained, i think we had a great time! Esp. brainstorming funny (read: lame) ideas to illustrate the themes given. hahaha.

Anyway, i like the following few photos, even though they are not related to any of the themes at all.


so colourful! so cute! (^^,)

discovered that my old cam has the B/W mode only yesterday nite!


i simply like the feel of this photo


reflection

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