3 posts tagged “photography”

I'm finally done with setting my room up, and I'm so very proud of it. Pictures of my room will follow soon, but right now I'm choosing pictures to put up. I don't want a photo mosaic, because that is, in my roommate's words, "so summer camp". Here are my options:

This is by far my favourite, but if I saw this in a friend's room I would totally think she's got parent problems.

Very cliched, journey-esque message photo. I like the wet footprints. I remember halting my mum and dad from crossing the bridge before I could snap it.

Whimsical, cheers me up, but doesn't resonate deeply at all.

I returned to Singapore last Friday, and since then I've done nothing conversation-worthy. I like to think that my vacation attachment with CAAS does not qualify as a conversation topic or something that should be prodded into because, really, it belongs to the rest of my life, which is already an inevitability I signed up for one year ago, and that I will have abundant opportunities to talk about.

I miss Penn to bits. I really do. I speak not with a banality that underlies small talk and idle banter, but with a very real inertia that consumes my thoughts almost every second of the day. I've met so many people (I probably should add customarily that they are awesome people) that made me feel awesome and brought me into bits of knowledge and experiences and what-ifs that I used to deliberately exclude from my comfort zone. I was also given an independence that I loved through and through and that I never for once took for granted. Most important was an independence of time. My time was my own, and it was up to me to manage my time relative to others. Right now bits of my time is arbitrarily given to my parents.

Gah. Pictures!

The 24 shots from my first green Lomolito, a novel and cheap introduction to color-splash photography, have been developed. I liked what I've done with my camera, which is not to say that they all came out good, but at least I experimented with different distances and angles, and timing. All I have to say is, I sure as hell don't know what color-splash is, but I'm already a fan. I am so endlessly intrigued by the nostalgic retro appearance of the pictures. Taking random, poorly-composed shots just produces pictures that look as if they belong to a movie.

Here are some of my shots from New York City: