Reflections...The First Quarter

Perhaps the passing moment for many of us don't come often but when it does, we realized time has swiftly gone by. And we look back and wonder what we have achieved? What could we have done better? Can we still make up for it? Well, here I am, feeling exactly just that.

It's April, yeah, start of the second quarter, and I know it has been 2 months of absence since my last posting. Time perhaps in essence was part of the reason why I have not pen down my thoughts of late. Looking back, I have missed the point of what "real" photography really meant. It is often a miscontrued ideology that photography is just taking passing moments, but I realized every detail imagery define its moment. Skyline, lighting and above all, minute details gravitate the colours of nature hence affecting the mood of edit.

I haven't also had a chance to really taken many shots of late, hence the lack of posting even on my own personal Instagram feed so I have been told I was missed by many of whom have been waiting eagerly for a posting from me. It was never a deliberate attempt to actually NOT post or just NOT shoot for that matter. I believe in every new hobby we adopt, sometimes when we lose the zest for it, it takes time for us to find the inspiration to come back to it again. There are times I would have that eagerness to shoot just about anything and everything that I can find, but these days, the hindrance isn't so much what I can't find to shoot but the desire to want to shoot.

Yes, I do have my moments with editing too, I can shoot and perhaps leave the editing of a shot to a good week later, not because I don't want to do it immediately after and I realized by doing it instantaneously - it forces you to actually post without having think through what exactly you have in mind when you edited. Hence I feel, every edit speaks of sentiments at that moment, and believe it or not, colours define us whether it's don in black and white, sepia or simple mono coding.

So here goes a collaboration shot and edit project I did together with an IGer from Japan, his shot spoke of clarity and defiance. Shot might have been simple but it's the creative touches I did in the editing that defined the moment for me. Some things need not to be complicated, perhaps that is just a reflection of our own judgement?

This was his shot of Tamagawa River in Tokyo, Japan on December 31, 2012 and my edit.

But nothing defined it for me when I shot this reflection of the "super trees" at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Beauty as they say, is perceptive to our eyes. So this is my reflection of stillness mirrored in those waters.

Till next time, goodnight, good morning and have a great second quarter.


Cheers,

Kaz