Tasmania's Wild West: Queenstown

1. The bare hills below Mt. Lyell, and the tortuous Lyell highway.

2. Riverside house.

3. Abandoned chair.

4. Entrance.

5. Scale.

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7. Chopped wood and gas tanks.

8. The weather-telling shoes.

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茨廠街, Petaling Street.



Film | Wall
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Fujifilm Superia 200

Fish

Hungry for air.

It has been 4 months since I bought my Bronica ETRS, which I've been using regularly. In fact, the first few rolls of film shot with it has already been developed and scanned- I have them in my harddisk now. However, I forgot to note the film types for each of the rolls, so due to logistical & archiving reasons I will not process it until the end of the year..

That aside, the main point I want to write in today's post is after all these months of ownership, I still haven't do this camera justice by shooting what it really is intended for: portraits & landscapes. So, over the last few weeks I've been bringing it out for some landscape shootings, the most recent one was shooting at Cradle Mountain national park.

Looking at the scans from previous rolls, I've learned the limitations of shooting with medium format SLRs- many of my shots were motion blurred, mostly due to the low shutter speed and unstable platform/base. I've grossly overestimated the ability of my hand as a tripod substitute, and by doing so I crossed the line. When I was planning for landscape shootings this time, I thought that if I were to get serious and shoot landscape using a medium format SLR with a slappy mirror without mirror lock-up, I might as well do it right. Well, I did it right... almost, except for 2 things.

Firstly, I don't have a tripod. As a uni student studying in a town in Tasmania, my contacts are limited but I still managed to borrow a tripod from my friend. I'm grateful for it, however the tripod's stability proved to be way less than adequate for my pig (camera). In fact, I could see the whole partially extended centre column swaying sometimes, not just when I release the shutter (with cable, of course), but under moderate wind as well! This has really got me into thinking of investing in a heavy, stable tripod.

The second issue is relatively minor compared to the first, but I think it'll be more important as I get more serious about landscape (if it happens): the lack of filter accessories. I only thought of this in retrospect- I have not used many filters before but from what I saw from most serious shooters, filters are a must in shooting landscape.

These issues aside, I enjoyed shooting landscape with the Bronica a lot. I really loved the process of shooting slowly, it's a relaxed, unrushed way of shooting and makes me think more for each shot as I have so much time to shoot (the light was flat and stayed the same when I was at Cradle Mountain). Ansel Adams must have felt similar too when he was preparing to capture The Tetons and Snake River...





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Film | Fish
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Ilford FP4

Life Scenes (XVII): Short Walk into City Centre

1. View from Bangsar LRT station.

2. Petronas twin towers.

3. Nice use of materials...

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8. Ang moh selling things at Petaling Street?

Small collection of photos taken in separate trips into the city centre.





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Film | Life Scenes (XVII): Short Walk into City Centre
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Fujifilm Superia 200

二姐

My sister.

When this post goes online, I must already be at the airport, waiting for my flight back to KL, back home.

Oh dear home, how much I've missed you.





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Film | 二姐
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Ilford FP4

Life Scenes (XVI): Life at Different Stages

Candid portraits of people at Salamanca Market, Hobart.





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Film | Life Scenes (XVI): Life at Different Stages
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Foma Fomapan 400

FRIM (III): Outside the Forest

Some photos that I took when we just arrived at FRIM and before we enter the forest and before we got completely soaked by some nicely-timed thunderstorm.



1. Entrance.

2. Team-mates.

3. The path less taken.

4. Cyclists.

5. Daphne.

6. Some bridge.

7. Sun rays.

8. Brian's breakfast.

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Film | FRIM (III): Outside the Forest
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Fujifilm Superia 200

Life Scenes (XV): Fire

Fire at Bangsar.
Sunday, 11th November.





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Film | Life Scenes (XV): Fire
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Fujifilm Superia 200

This is Life (VI)

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My beloved girlfriend, who loves to play the piano.





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Film | This is Life (VI)
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Fujifilm Superia 400

Life Scenes (XIII): Accident

Looks like someone was drunk on a Friday night.





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Film | Life Scenes (XIII): Accident
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros

Photos

Memories.





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Film | Photos
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Foma Fomapan 400

Changing Room

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My housemate frequently buy shirts online from ASOS. Here's one day when a number of parcels arrived at our doorstep.





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Film | Changing Room
Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Kodak Tri-X

Europe 2011 | The Notre-Dame Cathedral of Reims

We arrived at Reims at night, after driving through the border towns of of Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. The next morning we visited the Notre Dame of Reims, where Kings of France were crowned.



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3. Cathédrale Notre Dame de Reims.

4. Grandiose.

5. Just look at these beautifully detailed sculptures. Masterpiece.

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10. Love the colour rendition of this Solaris film, it gives a pleasing, warm tone to this image. However, the batch that I had have quite noticeable grain.

11. Symmetry. The incredibly high ceiling adds to the magnificence of the building.

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16. Rear view of Notre-Dame.

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Film | Europe 2011 | The Notre-Dame Cathedral of Reims
Nikon F90X, Yashica Electro 35 CCN, Fujifilm Pro 160S, Fujifilm Superia 200, Agfa Vista 200, Ferrania Solaris 200