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KL Bird Park (12 June 2010)

17 Jun

It was a sunny cooling Saturday morning when Wai Seng had decided to ‘fly another kite’ for this outing that we planned days ago just a night before the actual day. I would definitely not want to blame him for not being able to make it letting down his girl friend in particular due to the fact that he needed to watch a World Cup match the night before the outing and very concerned that he might not be able to wake up early to make it to the outing. How thoughtful he is!

I can’t tell you how much I adore my friend here for being able to keep up such a good reputation record after so many years! Bravo! For this, I would like to dedicate this post to my beloved friend, Wai Seng, who is now working very hard trying to find more customers for his bank he works for currently!

Here we go. A parrot that greets us and shouts “Wai Seng, Wai Seng where are you!” when we entered the park.

The entrance fees for Malaysian is RM 20. Oh ya! If you happen have a Metrojaya or Jaya Jusco or Real Rewards card like what Wai Seng always bring along, you can get a RM10 discount. But remember, each card entitles for one ticket only. So, you better know the trick!

This is one proud bird just like Wai Seng. Standing tall and always hold firm to the decision he makes. When he says “Yes”, he really mean it! You can always count on him!

Parrot, parrot and parrots. You can find lots of them in the World of Parrots section of the park. The park itself is quite big and for those like us and like Wai Seng that often carry a camera around snapping photos, you would probably need to spend about 3 hours in the park. So, it’s better to get up early, not to get addicted to watching World Cup match and staying up late and get to the park as early as you can.

All the photos with bird(s) are taken with a Canon 400D with Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM most of the time. The rest are probably with either a Canon EF-S 10-22mm or a Sigma 50mm f/1.4. You can always check the EXIF data and view them in full resolutions (5MP). Better still, make one as your wallpaper each day. Till then, take care and happy shooting and watching matches.

And these are some of the thumbnails of the collection.

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Or you can even view in the slideshow. How cool is that! View in slideshow.

PS: Wai Seng Wai Seng, let’s make it real next time, okay! No zombies are hurt in the process of making this post and there isn’t any ill feeling or hatred towards any party mentioned in this post.

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WordPress theme goes wider and bigger

26 Oct

I’m excited to announce another wave of updates for my dedicated photography blog! This time, there’s actually 2 updates to the theme.

Photo caption fix

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First of all, it’s about a bug fix which is actually quite unnoticeable to the masses. There are 4 columns at the bottom of the homepage whereby 2 latest photos shown. The description of the photo has been made to be the same as what is displayed in the photo slide show / stream above. Primarily, we do not want to see “Click on the photo to see larger size” appears in the caption at the homepage which is ridiculously irrelevant, isn’t it? It’s only valid when user goes into the blog entry.

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Secondly, it’s about serving better and wider range of photos.

Everything has gone wide these days seriously. You want wide wide highway to drive on to getting real big and wide screen display to play your HD videos. Heck, you can’t even buy a proper normal ratio (4:3 ratio with resolution like 1024×768, 800×600, 1280×1024) LCD panel on market as easily as 2 years ago now! Everything is wide, so do the photos and blogs. Okay, back to where we were.

For our case here, in particular, panorama. It’s a pain to the eyes when we are viewing something very wide like panorama like the scale of 5:1 (width:height). Just like the little long panoramic image that you are seeing above!

With just a click of button! Walah~

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The blog entry content pane is widened to as much as the template permits. This has made photo viewing much much much more flexible and satisfying. Hope you all like this little update.

Technically, of course, for those who are interested to get wide too on their blog too, read on.

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photo.hugolim.com

06 Sep

You may have noticed the absence of updates over the past few days. I have been busy juggling with work (and repairing myself from sudden mood swing on the personal note), taking care of mylensdb.com, and designing a new brand new site!

I would like to call it, HugoLim Photography. It resides at photo.hugolim.com.

It has been years having my photography works blogged at this site and I’m feeling the need to have a dedicated one instead of mixing them with the rest of unrelated stuff like computers and geek-like programming junks.

How things started

CNN Daily Snapshot

I’m captivated by CNN’s Daily Snapshot website. It updates daily and show the most interesting event happened on the day. I like this idea. Thus, I’m thinking of its concept used to present its pictures.

The design

photo.hugolim.com runs on WordPress as it’s backbone and not on dedicated photo gallery application.

However, there’s something real cool about this site (yes, pardon me for praising my own website). As you can see from the screen shot of photo.hugolim.com below, the placeholder of the biggest picture will change itself showing the latest pictures posted.

And for every one day or two, a new photo will be posted on this site.

And at the bottom of the page, we can see the latest posts with thumbnails of featured categories (eg, landscape, nature, travel and people).

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With this, I proudly announce, photo.hugolim.com is open for business! I like it very much, it’s design is so much better than this blog (shame on me). I really hope that you like it too.

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Model Shooting: Debil, Abby and Eileen

22 Aug

Eileen, Debil, Abby

Well, I’m fortunate that Kelvin invited me for a model portrait shooting session last week. Finally I can somehow utilize my lenses that have since collecting dust (even inside the dry box!).

Introducing Elaine Eileen, Debil and Abby Ebby. I had a very hard time trying to remember and pronounce their names properly especially Debil’s. And I think I got some of their names spelled wrongly here too. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Nice to meet you all, girls! And here’s the photos as promised.

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A day with William

16 Aug

Introducing Captain William Yeoh of USS Enterprise. He is almost the same age as my nephew and he is as playful as any other babies too. Cute!

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Babies are cute but.. things will go out of control once they learn how to crawl and it gets worse once they start trying to stand up and walk.. (laugh out loud) Okay, back to the topic…

Last week, I spent some time at my friend’s house trying to shoot some baby pics. The result is not that satisfying though. There’s definitely lots more to learn before I can actually offer my service commercially. Anyway, it’s good to have more photography sessions. Practice makes perfect!

A very big ‘Thank you!’ to Jerrica for the photographing opportunity!

Hope to arrange another session with you again to produce some contest-grade materials! Till then, I would like to share some pics taken during that time. Click here to get to the full album.

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