Raymond Photography - Freezing Timeless Moments

This blog has moved

2009-09-25T07:09:00.000-07:00

I've decided to move my blog to Wordpress.

This one will still exist, but from now on I'll be posting at http://raymondcphoto.wordpress.com/.

The reason for the move is that I found there are more functionality in wordpress that I found them very useful. For example, posting photo in a larger sizes and Blog Stats that allow me to monitor the traffic of my blog.

So, look forward to see all of you over on the Wordpress blog!!

Connie Talbot, age 6, WOWs Simon Cowell

2009-08-16T01:01:00.000-07:00

Connie Talbot, age 6, WOWs Simon Cowell, and definitely, including me.

So sweet ...

KLGCC Taekwondo Club

2009-05-06T04:31:00.000-07:00

On a Sunday morning, KLGCC Taekwondo Club attended the Interclub Taekwondo Championship 2009. I am very proud for all the kids from the KLGCC Taekwondo club that have participated, and especially, they have bagged 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal in the event.

#1 Interclub Taekwondo Championship 2009

WELL DONE & HURRAY TO THE KIDS AND ALL THAT HAS PARTICIPATED …

This is a sequence showing the kicking to break the wooden plank.

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#3 Notice the little boy whose is holding the board.

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#6 Congratulation. We are all very proud of you.

Formula One in Malaysia 2009 (Part 2)

2009-04-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

5 April 2009. 5:00PM.

#1 Finally, the moment that everyone around the world has came and being waiting for… the F1 race ... (Click image for larger view)

#2: Ready … Set … and here goes the F1 cars …

#3: Brawn GP Formula One Team - Jenson Button (1st place of the Malaysian Grand Prix)

#4: BMW Sauber F1 Team - Nick Heidfeld (2nd place of the Malaysian Grand Prix)

#5: Panasonic Toyota Racing - Timo Glock (3rd place of the Malaysian Grand Prix)

#6: Vodafone McLaren Mercedes (This is my favorite car to shot, I guess that may be because the color of my car is also silver)

#7: Red Bull Racing

#8: Scuderia Toro Rosso

#9: Scuderia Ferrari

#10: ING Renault F1 Team

#11: At&T Williams

#12: Force India F1 Team

#13: Eventually, the race was red-flagged in its 11-year history after a torrential downpour hit the track on Lap 32.

#14: The last lap was stopped at Lap32 …

#15: The British National Anthem

#16: Yeah… Congratulation … Jenson Button - His second win ... You have done it again!!

#17: The celebration

#18: Congratulation to all. You guy are great.

When the celebration was over, I met up with my friend, and again I did not reach home until 11:00pm, because of the long queue of waiting for the bus and the traffic jam.

After the 2 days of non-stop shooting under the hot sun and the heavy rain, I was totally exhausted …

But, if you ask me if I get the chance (finger-cross) to go again next year, will I go?? I think … “YES!! A definite YES”. Watching the F1 “LIVE” was a totally new experience to me verse watching it in front of the TV set. Watching the F1 “LIVE”, you can really feel the vibrating and exhilarating atmosphere: the roaming and cheering from the crowd; the tense moment from the F1 drivers; the screaming sound of the F1 cars zooming pass us at >270km per hour; the hot sun, and of course the pouring rain.

If you get a chance to go, go and have fun … I am very sure that you will enjoy it as much as I do.

BTW, I would like to say "Thank You" to Tony, for showing me around SIC, and taught me a few tricks in taking F1 Motor Racing.

Formula One in Malaysia 2009 (Part 1)

2009-04-10T18:47:00.000-07:00

After all these years of thinking of go to the F1 races (Thinking a lot is because of the expensive F1 tickets), finally, I get to go to this year with a working pass. (Yipee!!)

So, here comes Sunday (5 April), woke up early, double-checked my Canon and lens were in order, asked my wife to drop me off at KL Sental, and I caught the Skybus to the Sepang International Circuit (SIC). I reached SIC before 12:00pm, and the crowd had just started to arrive and slowly moving into the Mall Area.

Took my camera out and started shooting, as my job was to capture the activities happened in the event.

#1. Smiles! You can see happy faces everywhere snapping photo to bring home their happy memories. (Click image for larger view)

#2. F1 Shirts… F!1 Caps … So, which team are you supporting???

#3. The Petronas Girl

#4. The Marlboro Promoters

#5. They came from all around the world to support their team. Sweden.

#6. Not too sure which country. May be someone can let me know?

#7. South Africa supporter

#8. F1 Drivers Autograph Session : ING Renault F1 Team (1)

#9. F1 Drivers Autograph Session : ING Renault F1 Team (2)

#10. Throwing his cap to the crowd

#11. Singing “ We will we will rock you…”

#12. An enthusiasm fan

#13. More F1 Drivers Autograph Session: Toro Rosso Team (1)

While the atmosphere just started to build up with the crowd cheering and shouting for their team, the rain came again. I told myself I am not going to get “soak” again, so I quickly headed for shelter. (On my way back home from SIC last night, I was caught and I was standing under the heavy rain for half an hour without any shelter. Well, this is another story, you probably do not want to know ... )

#14. Waiting for the rain to stop

At around 2 p.m., the rain started to cease, the GP2 Asia A1 race started. Check out how wet the track was.

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#20. F1 Drivers Track Parade (I heard last year they were sitting in the Vintage Cars, but this year, they were all in the bus, I guess, the economic crisis is really hitting the globe.)

Stay tune for PART 2 ...

Peggy

2009-03-06T03:18:00.001-08:00

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Charlene

2009-02-28T08:00:00.000-08:00

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Michelle

2009-02-27T08:17:00.001-08:00

These photo were taken last year. Only manage to process it now, and share it with all of you. Michelle is a very talented model. She is the kind of model that can splash a bit of water in her face and look better than most people after many hours with a skilled make up artist.

#1 Smile 1 (Click image for larger view)

#2 Smile 2

#3 Smile 3

#4 Flower 1

#5 Flower 2

#6 Flower 3

elc International School IU Day 2009

2009-02-21T03:41:00.000-08:00

International Understanding Day (IU Day) is a fun-filled, action-packed event where aims are to raise money for Charity and to promote International Understanding within the elc community.

Throughout the day, there were performances, presentations, games, and yummy international home-made food.

I do not know about the others, but I have really enjoyed the day, and "well done" again to all students, teachers, and parents that were volunteer on the day and make the event so successful.

#1 Performer preparing to go on stage

#2 Stage Performance - It’s Pairs

#3 Stage Performance - CanCan Dance #1

#4 Stage Performance - CanCan Dance #2

#5 Lion Dance

#6 Chinese Cultural Dance

#7 Walk like a Egyptian

#8 Two sisters

#9 Beautiful Smiles

#10 Hit me if you can. Oh! You got me!

#11 It's hot day. Please. Dunk me. You miss,

Joycemint’s Annual Concert 2008

2009-01-09T08:41:00.000-08:00

This is the second year that I was asked to shoot the Joycemint’s Annual Concert. I felt so excited and privileged to have the opportunity to shoot their concert again, as children and music is my favorite shooting subject and theme.

It is also joyful to see all familiar faces that have grown up through the years, and their music achievement has reached even higher level. Hurray to all the performers, you are great, and of course, congratulation to Joyce and Gloria for another successful annual concert.

The following are some of the photo that I have taken, to view more of the concert photo, kindly go to joycemintkl.spaces.live.com

#1.Let’s the concert begin. (Click image for larger view)

#2. Pentas 1 - The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center (KLPac)

#3. Canon Rock

#4. Drums Groove 1

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#7. 500 Miles. The youngest performer in the concert. He has received the greatest support from the audience.

#8. Overture to “William Tell”, Gioacchino Rossini

#9. Vocal : Close to you

#10. You’ll Be in My Heart

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#13. Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon ( A piece of Chinese classical beautifully played by the panio)

#14. Vocal : Edelweiss, Richard Rodgers

#15. Twinkle, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(This is my favorite performance)

#16. The young volinlist

#17. The young volinlist

#18. Minuetto, J.S. Bach

#19. The Chapplows

#20. The Chapplows

elc Supports CanonGoesGreen

2008-10-27T02:04:00.000-07:00

My daughter’s school (elc) supported the Canon’s Tree Planting Campaign "Canongoesgreen". It was great to see the school proactively participated in such a meaningful event.

Hurray to all the children that has participated on the day.

#1 elc Supports Canongoessgreen

#2 Emcees Elaine Daly and Hansen Lee

#3. This is my favorite image. It captures the timeless moment of the bonding between father and son.

StarDrift Chanllege, Round 3, Melaka

2008-10-15T23:59:00.000-07:00

On a sizzling hot Sunday afternoon, I went shooting "Star Drift Chanllege" motor sport with my photo buddies. As this was my first time shooting car drifting, the followings are some of the advises from my photo buddies: Set to Shutter Priority, start with shutter speed 1/60 sec, and wear a pair of shoe and prepare to run in case of "Spin-out".

Initially, I was wondering what they meant, but when I reached the race track, I started to understand what they meant, as we were standing in the middle of the race track, and the cars were drifting at an estimated distance of 50m from us. No wonder that we need to prepare to run.

So, it proved again what photographer does for the sake of art and documenting the event.

Just in case, you do not know what is a "Spin Out", the following photo shown what happened after a car was spin-out from the race track and end up in front of a group of people that were watching the race. When the car started "flying" toward you, you just need to run - "FAST"

#1. After a "Spin Out"

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Emma

2008-10-05T19:31:00.001-07:00

I know .. I know .. put the lens cap on ... but sometimes, if you construct the flare effect intentionally, it can be cool. (BTW, the flare was not created using Photoshop)

Jeslyn and April

2008-10-04T03:22:00.001-07:00

Jeslyn and April was two fun models to work with. The following are some photo during a studio session with my photo’s buddies.

1. Jeslyn - Cool ...

2. April - Cute ...

Dedicate to all the ultramen ...

My favorite …

3. Black and White ...

My sister-in-law's brother wedding

2008-10-04T03:05:00.000-07:00

I have recently attended my sister-in-law’s brother wedding at the Raffle Hotel Singapore. The ambient was nice and the light was great, I could not resist and started snapping photo again. Not to mention the dinner banquet was really yummy.

Benny & Debbie Wedding

2008-09-17T10:28:00.000-07:00

Recently, I was so glad to attend Benny & Debbie's wedding, and was able to take their wedding photo. They are just such lovely couple.

The Groom and Groomsmen were fantastic, as all posings were spontaneous.

Michelle

2008-08-08T02:23:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Jason and team. The following photo were taken in DailyLifeStyles Studio.