:: Walldrobe Photography ::

After months of extensive revamped, I can finally announce the new Walldrobe website up and running. Nothing awesome about it, just a proper site with better nagivations as compared to my old site. At last I can take a breather from all the scripting and stuff. It was actually a great learning for me when my designer shared all the problems one might encounter when testing the site in IE or Firefox or Safari. Thanks to Noel for accommodating my countless requests and changes.

There’s still a couple of bugs which Noel is trying to fix but generally, the site is good to go. If you come across any bugs or problems when serving my site, do notify me through email. I’ll try my best to fix it. One problem which I encounter is the slideshow which will go haywire once in a while. If that happens, do a refresh and the site is good to go again. Another problem is the page number at the gallery page right on top of the thumbnails. It just doesn’t change accordingly even when I’m viewing the pictures from the following page. Everything looks ok on a local site but once online, the problem occurs.

I have lots of questions about why the name Walldrobe which doesn’t seems to link to photography and I thought I’ll take this opportunity to share the reason behind this name. As I don’t wish to use my name like Shaun Tay Photography or SKTay Photography, I had a hard time coming out with a proper name. There was one night where I actually jump out of bed in the middle of the night staring at my wardrobe. I was staring at my clothes hanging nicely in the wardrobe and I though…why is it called the wardrobe in the first place? Then I thought we usually hang nice pictures on the wall and photography is all about pictures. Since the closet for clothes is called wardrobe, I though the wall for pictures can be called Walldrobe. And so, thats the whole idea behind Walldrobe.

There was also a long story behind why my site address is walldrobe.sg and not the more commonly known walldrobe.com but I think I can skip this. So, here’s my site www.walldrobe.sg

I’m always very fascinated by rings and I make it a point to shoot the rings whenever I’m at a wedding shoot. To me, I’ve always thought, well, it’s just a stone. I never knew why girls like diamonds so much until last year when I was looking for one for Jean did I realise there’s actually a whole lot of knowledge about how to choose a good diamond and the value associated with it. I still remembered I was so blur when I walked into those jewellery shops being bombarded by those jargons like ‘Oh, this is a perfect cut diamond’, ‘It’s a D colour stone, the clarity is VVS1′ etc etc. I went home and did my research from the net about anything on diamonds and now, ha..I can walk in telling them exactly what I want.

It’s Valentine’s day tomorrow and here’s wishing all couples a Happy Valentine’s Day.

Chinese New Year was just round the corner and I was just busy buying bakkwa for my family and friends but before I knew it, it was over. As I get older, I realised I don’t enjoy New Year as much as I like when I’m younger. Year by year, it seems quieter and collecting ang bao doesn’t stir up my interest either. This year, even the Chinese New Year movies were a let down. There isn’t any movie worth watching. Not that I don’t support local production but this year’s quality is really bad. Having said that, that’s just my personal preference for movie. I really miss the good old days where we’ll watch Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow during CNY.

To get myself into the mood, I visited the Sentosa Flowers this year. It was really hot and crowded. I feel the event can be done better but nonetheless, I quite enjoy the trip. Courtesy to my friend Aylwin for his fantastic Tamron 90mm macro lens, I managed to capture a few close up of the flowers.

After a while with the flowers, the bees caught my attention. While others are busy capturing the flowers, I was busy following the bees, focusing on their flight. It was ‘The Bee Movie’ I watch last year that I knew they actually play an extremely important role in pollinating the flowering plants and are a major type of pollinator in the ecosystems that contain flowering plants. It was amazing to know those bees actually contributed so much in our human food supply by pollinating the plants. But the world is changing and there was a report I read sometimes back saying the bees are decreasing in population in an alarming rate for some reasons not really known to us.