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Monthly Archives: May 2012

Avarielle’s 1st Birthday Party

Last month, family and close friends of Avarielle’s parents, Vincent and Irene, gathered together at Sengkang Swimming Complex to celebrate Avarielle’s 1st birthday. Baby Avarielle was born one day after Baby Rebecca whose 1st birthday party I also covered last month. It was a much smaller affair but posed the opportunity to capture photos which were quieter...

Walkabout with the Olympus OM-D E-M5

Last week, I borrowed IPA Founder Kevin’s Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera together with a 14mm (equivalent to 28mm field of view) lens to shoot with. I would have preferred using a 17mm or 20mm lens but using the 14mm was a good exercise in trying to effectively fill up the frame. After a short orientation to familiarize myself with...

Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

Vivian Maier worked as a professional nanny all her working life. After picking up photography sometime in the late 1940s, she started photographing the world around her during her leisure time. In her lifetime, she amassed a body of work comprising of over 100,000 negatives as well as hundreds of rolls of undeveloped film (there...