Malaysia International Fashion Week 2009

Ai Tominaga, the New York-based Japanese supermodel made an appearance at Malaysia International Fashion Week yesterday. She is shown here modeling a dress from IKA.

Malaysia International Fashion week kicks off in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur yesterday, with Japanese supermodel, Ai Tominaga making a special catwalk appearance for quite a number of local and regional brands. Besides her and our very own home grown models, there are also another 10 top Chinese models, specially flown from Beijing, China. It’s a feast for the eyes as these models brought along with them years of experience on the runways and the fame and glamor attributed with models in general. I am sure this will spur our local models and wannabe models to strive for the stars and make their dreams come true, be it here or in New York.

Malaysia International Fashion Weeks has been a yearly event for designers, buyers and fashion business for the past 7 years. It is the place to be if you are in fashion related business in Malaysia. For more information please go to their website: M-IFA.com.

I will be updating this website with some write-up and photos during the duration of this event. This event will end on 8th November 2009.

This spectacular design was gracefully showcased by this Chinese model on the runway. This intricate and beautiful dress was created by designer Bo Tao. It's amazing to see how a dress could be presented in such an exquisite and bewitching way. All credits to the designer and the model.

Another exquisite design from Bo Tao of China. Whether it's wearable or practical, it's another story. The point is: it's spectacularly conceived and very Chinese in character.

Canon 1D Mark IV HD-DSLR – The pretender or the real McCoy?

Canon 1D Mark IV (Photo from dpreview.com)

Competition in the pro-segment of the digital camera market is heating up fast. Just when we were amazed by Nikon’s announcement of the support for ISO sensitivity of up to 102,800 on the 14th of Oct, we were surprised yet again by another fierce competitor whom not only matched Nikon’s announcement blow-by-blow but has elevated the playing field to another ridiculous level that seemed unattainable just a few years ago. With this new announcement, Canon has within 2 ‘long’ years of their disastrous debut of the Canon 1D Mark III, re-positioned themselves back on the right path to success. Failure is not an option this time around, I hope!

Nikon Show at Mid Valley Megamall

The drool factor for the latest Nikon D3s coupled with the new AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II far outweighs the beautiful model who is holding the potent combination.

Nikon Malaysia is currently promoting the Nikon Show at Mid Valley Megamall as the Nikon’s highlight event of the year. There will be many activities and also a photo contest for all photography enthusiasts. There’s even free photography talks by a few professional photographers but for me, the best reason to drop by Nikon booth is the chance to view or maybe touch and feel the beautiful Nikon D3s. The D3 has proven to be the most awesome digital camera to hit the market for professional sports and news photographers and has taken a big chunk of market share back from Canon 1 series camera. You just need to look at major sports event like the Beijing Olympics and football matches. Previously you could only see Canon trademark white L lenses along the sidelines but in recent years you could see a mix of black and white lenses. This is a major coup for Nikon and for Canon to catch up, they really need to come up with some really earth-shattering technologies that might give Nikon a run for their money.

As a Canon 1D Mark III user, I can vouch that the latest Nikon D3s is really tempting me to beg, borrow or steal just to get my hand on one of this baby. The newly redesigned image sensor of the new Nikon D3s will take the concept of “low light photography” to a completely new level and maybe Nikon might even create a new niche in photography which is close to “No Light Photography”. I can just imagine using the latest Nikon D3s with the new AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II lens. With the D3s capability of an ISO value of up to 102,400 and the ‘VR II’ lens claimed benefit of 4 additional stops, anything is possible.

A bride’s journey of love and life on her wedding day.

Life stood still for me today and words just can't describe my happiness and joy.

Today’s post is just a fictional creation to illustrate the wedding day journey of a beautiful young lady. I will attempt to describe her hopes, her desire and her dreams for this important day in her life. This series of photos were taken at the Taman Tasik Titiwangsa recreational park. This  is a really nice park for photography with its landscaped garden, beautiful trees, rolling hills and a flower-covered walkway. The beautiful model is Jenny and the make-up artist that provide the overall beauty support is Danny.

USAF Thunderbirds stunning display of air prowess in Malaysia

Delta bottom-up pass formation performed to precision by US Air Force's Thunderbirds at the recent 2009 Far East Tour at RMAF Subang Air Force base in Malaysia.

Saturday, 3rd October 2009. My morning started with a 2 hours traffic jam to get into the Royal Malaysia Air Force (RMAF) base in Subang. It was bumper-to-bumper all the way in from the many entry points like Glenmarie, Jelutong, Batu Tiga and Subang Jaya. I just had to be there no matter what the circumstances were, since it wasn’t an event that would come by that often, especially in Kuala Lumpur area. We may be able to catch such air show in the yearly LIMA event in Langkawi but it’s near impossible to witness “the” US Air Force’s Thunderbirds team.

By the time I managed to find a car park some 500 meters from the base, the place was already swarmed with people from different walks of life. Some parents were seen accompanying their children who were too eager to witness the air show for the first time in their life. By about 9:30am, the place was already packed with an estimated 150,000 people. I am glad that I took the effort to wake up early but the amount of people turning up for the aerial display were really unexpected.