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Wabi Sabi

youngdoo — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:40:51 +0000

Hasselblad 503CX | 80mm f/2.8 | Extension Tube 21 | Kodak Ektacolor 160 Expired/ Kodak Portra 800 Expired

The beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

Wabi Sabi is
dry leaves, bare branches, handmade, weathered wood, crumbling stone, wildflowers, wool, rice paper, clay, unbleached cotton, tea, vintage, cobblestones, adobe, arts and crafts, flea markets, salvaged, burlap, oil finish, recycled glass, native landscaping, natural linoleum, hemp, clean, frank lloyd wright, natural plaster, natural light, clotheslines, hand mixers, rust

Wabi Sabi isn’t
cherry blossoms, floral arrangements, machine made, plastic laminate, polished marble, roses, polyester, plate glass, china, cashmere, latte, designer, concrete, steel, rococo, warehouse stores, made to order, velvet, polyurethane, crystal, kentucky bluegrass, vinyl, silk, cluttered, ludwig mies van er rohe, drywall, fluorescent light, electric dryers, food processors, dirt

the wabi-sabi house by Robyn Griggs Lawrence

The beauty is in the doing.

youngdoo — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:41 +0000

Hasselblad 503CX | 80mm f/2.8 | Extension Tube 21 | Ilford HP5 ISO400

I’ve been meaning to re-design the blog template but never got around to find the time and therefore there has been no updates here. Luckily enough, I recently realized that what is important it’s not the template design of the blog but the blog posting itself. The beauty is in the dong after all. Happy new year, everyone.

Love Propaganda

youngdoo — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:49:25 +0000

Valerie + Jason

youngdoo — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:07:47 +0000

I know this blog has been neglected for too long with an excuse that I’ve been busy working and catching up with life. For the past a few days, I finally had a chance to organize some of the photos from the photo shoots I did in the past and I decided to share them with you here little by little.

These photos are from the photo shoot I did when I was visiting John (aka 50ft shadows) in North Carolina last year. Valerie & Jason wanted to celebrate their one year of dating and asked us for a photo shoot. Those two days we decided to do the job turned out to be gorgeous days with such beautiful autumn lights and we had so much fun photographing the beautiful couple at a park near Valerie’s house and the back alley in downtown, Greensboro, North Carolina.

More photos from the session are available on my Flickr set Valerie & Jason.

‘Behind the scene’ with my Holga.

White Sands, New Mexico

youngdoo — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:55:41 +0000

I can’t believe that I’m still going through the photos from the USA road trip last year. In case you’re wondering which places I’ve visited, here’s a brief list.

Greensboro, NC
Blue Ridge Parkway, NC/ Virginia
Memphis, Tennessee
Roswell, New Mexico
White Sands, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sedona, Arizona
Flagstaff, Arizona (Historic Route 66)
Williams, Arizona (Historic Route 66)
Los Angeles, California
Santa Barbara, California
San Luis Obispo Beach, California
Cambria, California
Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, California
San Francisco, California
Yosemite, California (Mariposa Grove)
Las Vegas, Nevada
Zion (Angels Landing), Utah
Moab, Utah (Canyonlands National Park, Arches National Park)
Grand Staircase-Escalante, Utah

I’m only at White Sands now so you know how many more entries I have to make for this blog. By the way, White Sands was my favorite place from so many beautiful places I’ve visited during the USA road trip.

Yashica Electro35

youngdoo — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:15:29 +0000

John sent me a Yashica Electro35, an old rangefinder, for Christmas last year. It took me a little while to get used to the idea of rangefinder but I’ve been having a lot of fun carrying it around and snapping away! I know film photography can get expensive however there’s something very attractive about it and I’m learning to appreciate it better now. I like to share some of the better shots I got with the handsome old rangefinder. The last photo is the Yashica Electro35 itself.

Memphis, Tennessee

youngdoo — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:22:39 +0000

On our way to the west, we spent a few days in Memphis where John’s brother James was living at that time. We went to Otherlands – John & James’ favorite place for breakfast in the mornings, walked around downtown looking for interesting signs and places that are Memphis-esque, spent the afternoons taking pictures by the river, and hung out at local pubs drinking beer and catching up with each other at nights.

The best memory of Memphis is watching and photographing the beautiful sunset by the river although I didn’t get any photographs from it that are extra-ordinary. Like everything else in life, it reminded once again journey matters more than the destination.

Blue Ridge Parkway

youngdoo — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:47:29 +0000

I spent almost about a month on the road in USA in the autumn last year. As I always do, I took so many random photos mostly to document my journey and some to add to my future portfolio assets.

Although I’ve been going through the photos from the trip for the past a couple months and uploaded quite a lot to my Flickr account, I still have a lot more to go through. I plan on finishing them by the end of the month and share the better ones with you whoever stumbled upon my blog that has rather been neglected for quite some time now.

I love my photos. Not because I think I’m a better photographer but because, like a lot of photographers I know of, I enjoy documenting my life through photos and looking at them helps me remember things better. When I look at the photos I took in the past, it’s very easy for me to remember the details of the moments such as how I felt when I was pressing the shutter, whether I was in a good mood or a bad one, what the air smelled like, how warm the sunlight was, etc. I was going through the photos from the trip and I realized once again how wonderful the trip was although it was rather challenging at times for me being more of a city girl than a camper.

I’m going to slowly upload the better photos from the trip starting from today and I guess it makes the most sense if I do it in the chronological order. So, here we are. I’m starting with some photos of Blue Ridge Parkway where we passed through on our way to Memphis. The colours of the mountains were so beautiful but the grey day with the rain weren’t too kind for the photos.

I’m back

youngdoo — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:42:54 +0000

It’s been a long time since I made the last entry on this blog. I’ve been busy working and traveling but I’m still alive. 45 days of the trip to USA was wonderful and I came back with a whole bunch of photographs to share. I developed most of the film photos but haven’t found enough time to go through all the digital ones just yet. I will upload them on my flickr whenever I find time between work.

Today, I’ve decided to share one of my favorite photographs from the trip. The more I take photos, I find myself appreciating the process of taking photos more than the results. The reason I like this photo so much is that it reminds me of the beautiful day driving up the California Highway 1 along the Pacific coastline, running into this old lady who was painting the ocean sitting by the ocean, having such a pleasant conversation with her, and how wonderful it felt to frame, focus, and release the shutter to capture the beautiful moment I was enjoying. Taking this shot with a Hasselblad was a bonus as it’s such a great camera with an excellent experience of photo taking process.

Anyway, here’s the photograph for you to view and I hope you would enjoy.

Wedding in Braga.

youngdoo — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:45:36 +0000

I’ve been shooting quite a few wedding photos starting from my previous co-worker Miguel’s wedding in Braga, Portugal last year. While I was going through some of the wedding photo archives, I decided to post a few shots from my first wedding photo shoot.

I was lucky to be able to travel all the way to Braga for my first wedding photo assignment as well as to have some time to travel around in Portugal and Spain while I was on that side of the world. The church Miguel got married is the oldest Portuguese sanctuary called Bom Jesus do Monte and it was one of the most beautiful churches I’ve even seen.

Anyway, here are a few photos from that wedding.