What Did You See To-Day? Serikin Border Market Revisited.

I brought my friend for a photography assignment in Serikin border market.The photographer & the owner of ABANA Foto (Abang Khalik) from Sibu ,he has not been here before. The weather was very hot that day, but luckily, not many people came. I already expected a crowded place and having a hard time getting a place to park the car, but it was the opposite.I did notice there were more stalls opened this time, but most were selling almost the same stuffs. You really need to visit each stalls to bargain the best price.Serikin is a little bordertown (at the Malaysia-Indonesi border), 80km from Kuching.
Below are set of photos that I shoot yesterday in Serikin :

 That me photograph the antique store. (photo credit to ABANA Foto.

The owner of ABANA Foto.

Classic Barbershop.

A classic, quality barbershop shave always includes a "hot towel," which goes on your face prior to the shaving. The experience is not only relaxing, but the heat and moisture from the hot towel serve to open your pores and soften your face skin.

The old school barbershop a place which is slowly being replaced by the new and swanky hair salons which have gained so much popularity in the last decade or so. I wonder too whether establishments like the one in the picture still exist in the big cities. Many of the younger generation  prefer to have their hair cut in the 'newer' establishments, most of which are unisex.

 Horizontal position for a good old fashion shave.

 Remember these old barber chairs? Would you go for a traditional hair cut and shave? It will only cost you RM8.00

They Call This Human Interest.

Photography had never been as flourished as it is now in digital era. Most people I know, they carry their own DSLR camera, and I found it really interesting. We are all photographer in this age of time, telephone becomes mobile, mobile becomes camera-phone, camera phone becomes smart-camera-phone where image can be processed, printed and shared to community directly from it. Everyone carries camera nowadays, everyone is a photographer.First thing first, in my early days I was a little bit confused in getting differences among many terms:  journalistic photography, human interest photography and street photography. They are almost the same yet have a slightly different approach.

Human Interest Photography.

To photograph human activity, their interest, social lives, theme, story etc. A direct derivative from journalistic photography. The main purpose of this type of photography is to capture human activity. It is more into their social life than anything artistic or journalistic. To emphasize the HUMAN BEHAVIOR, their interaction with other human, with  nature and with their surrounding etc. It is all about human life, their theme, agenda, an idea of story and we make it extraordinary to show it  to the world.

 Below are example of my human interest photography:

 In spite of his old age he still work very hard to meet his daily needs. They call him 'The Gas Man' or 'The Iron Man'

 The Street Magician.

 The Fisher Man.

 The Delivery Man..
 

Give Life to Street Photography.

Street photography is indeed an interesting field. There are so many things that could be seen there. Different kinds of people roam around the streets even on ordinary days. These people of different traits are potential subjects for photography. Aside from people, other things can also be interesting like some buildings, street art and others. Animals can also be a good subject for street photography. They can also tell a unique story through their actions. Real life moment are what one can see for this type of photography and it is very much appreciated by many people.
It can truly be very exciting and full of fun when street photography is being done. So, if you want to venture into this field just google 'Street Photography' read and view what street photographer have done.
This morning I went out outing with my digital and film camera.Digital images is shown below & my film photography is still in lab for developing but you can see some of the images I shoot with film SIMPLY FILM PHOTOGRAPHY

Best of The Year award by Pixoto.com

My photo just won a 'Best of the Year' award on Pixoto.com! http://www.pixoto.com/awards/89084791

 More photos by me HERE in Pixoto.com.
Thank You & have a wonderful day.

Dismantling and Clearing of the old Satok Market.

The old Satok Market will be turned into a park to give Satok more greenery and ‘fresh air’.

 No more traffic congested here.This place use to be having traffic congested  every Saturday & Sunday.

 Almost 20 over years the Sunday Market or Pasar Malam is here..

 No more pasar malam & sunday market.

 even the coffee shop also empty...

 You hardly see shoppers waiting for bus anymore....

Olympus E-620 Art Filter

The following images were taken with the Olympus E-620 fitted with the Zuiko Digital 70-300mm lens. The E-620 was set to Large Fine JPEG quality, Auto White Balance, ESP metering and the Natural Picture Mode with Normal Gradation; Noise Reduction and the Noise Filter were set to their ON and STD settings respectively. In-camera Image Stabilisation was enabled for all these handheld shots.

 Aperture mode 1/2000s f 8.0 ISO 200 FL 70.0mm

 'Pinhole' art filter 

 'Grainy film' art filter.

 The Olympus camera allows you to apply art filters to your photos after you take them or even as you are taking them. These art filters are a way to adjust your image without having to learn or use a complex editing software.