When it's raining outside....

Yes, indeed, it was raining outside. The plan was to go out and have a shot of beach or sunset or city scape. Unfortunately it rained. Got some left over juice in my 4 pieces of Energizer. So its 6 kittens let in the house + 'lidi' + tape + paper butterfly time. Its a test of tamron's AF and yes, tamron lenses have very very slow AF. Fortunately, not all shots went bad. There are some good ones. Here are the shots.

There are certainly more shots in this edition. Cant display them all here or this blog will be a mile long. More of the set can be viewed from gambertudip flickr album which can also be accessed via the thumbnails on the right of this page. :D

Shot with Canon EOS 40D + Tamron 18-200mm + Nissin Di622

GrandMa's Birthday 2009

Grandma's birthday is back!. :D Had a small gathering at her place. Me and my family were late as we got to the gathering directly from our 12 hour drive down from Miri. Yes it was indeed tiring. But it was fun meeting alllllllll my niece and nephew. So cute. Anyways, very few pics were taken as we were late. But here goes.

Shots taken with Canon EOS 40D
Lens Tamron 18-200mm
Speedlight Nissin Di622

Raya of 2009

Raya mood everyone?? Yes ofcourse.. Although now thinking a lot about assignments and projects, Raya 09 is marvelous regardless all the worry about work in UNIMAS. This raya is very special to me and my wife as this is the first raya for us as husband and wife. Its great to have someone you love near you at a time like this. It just makes it so much more complete. This raya's plan was to celebrate first raya in kuching and then drive up to Miri on the second day. First day was indeed superb. Although not many visits cause dad and mom informed their friends that we are driving up to miri, but regulars and new friends from UNIMAS came. Thx guys.. U guys ROX!!.. haha.. Miri trip was tiring as always. But it was worst this time as Myvi was filled up to the max!. Bounce and bounce and bounce all the way..luckily we got out fenders cut off before the journey to avoid major knocking of the rims and car body. Miri was indeed fun. How can we not enjoy when both of our family gather together and celebrated the raya as a huge huge unit.. :D.. We had Tahlil early morning for our late grandma who just passed away. Raya in miri was also filled with funny moments looking at my sister in law, getting used to her new Myvi. She just got her license. Funny how she drives. :D kinda reminds me of the days driving my kancil my dad bought me after i got my license. Anyway, Keep Learning, Sis Jue.. :D..

Well.. Raya is far from over... ITS STILL ON!!!.. but i cant wait to post this. Since RAya is still on... prepare for more raya pics.. :D as well as grandma (Ah Ma)'s birthday photo.

Lastly, me and aya would like to wish everyone SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI and MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN. Thanks so much for following our photoblog. Keep Following ya.. :D

My UnCLe'S KonVo

At last.. its finally done for our dearest uncle, Suhaimi.. or.. Pekmi.. :D.. congratulations!!!!... Dun forget to belanja us on ur first gaji.. :D.. Well.. back to the story. Our family from JB came down to Kuching for the first time ever to witness Pekmi's konvo day. Was very happy cause at last they come down to Kuching. Its also a great opportunity to get to know better our father's side's family. Its sad that I'm not very much exposed to my father's side family. It was way back when my late grand dad passed away.. when i was in form 3, if I am not mistaken. Its been more then 10 years now, and yes, thats how long I haven't met my dad's side's family. My cousin Saiful.. the last time i met him was when he was still small running around my late grand dad house. Now we have all grown up. Its kinda sad that I didnt get to meet them more often for the past 10 years or more. But yet I am glad that at last i get to meet Mak Usu, Pak Usu, Saiful, Kak Long, Ajis, Pak Jul and his wife. Really glad... Next will by my father's side elders auntie and all my other cousins. Hope to meet them at last too.. Here are some pictures that I have processed during their visit.

(Not all pics processed yet.. More later maybe)

p/s : Some pics are tries with strobing and lighting.. hehe.. cant help trying photography techniques when the camera is in our hands..:D

Photographer : Fauzi @ intruxion and desire @ Aya

Massive Glow In The Dark DUN..

Ok.. Kuching is now topic all over Malaysia. Why not? Its August... and like they say.. BULAN BERPESTA!!... Many things going on during this month. And well, everyone knows one of the major happenings is the opening of Kuching's new Dewan Undangan Negeri DUN which is located on the banks of the Sarawak River opposite Kuching Waterfront. Events such as fireworks, boat parade as well as local craft bazaar accompanied the grand opening of the massive "glow in the dark" building. Was driving along the Gambier Road during the preparation and was lucky to get a parking space. Tripod in my car boot, dslr in my bag, DUN lights are all on, parade boat trying out their art on water, PERFECT!.. went down to get some shots of the massive DUN. Was not the only photographer doing so. Many others were also there. Here are some shots taken.

Photographer : Fauzi @ intruxion and Aya @ desire

40D.. WOW!

After handling the hactic UTM trip, me and my wife had planned to drive to Miri for the week. We turned down MAP, packed our bags and drove to Miri... just the two of us. The journey was scary (haha), as our parents in Kuching gave the wrong info bout bad road conditions. Instead of telling the road we should avoid, they made us drove into the road under construction.. scary as our fuel was only a bar to empty when we finally reached Sibu. But it was fun anyway.. :D..

Reached Miri on the same day. Got a Canon EOS 40D deal in Miri as well, sacrifising my 50mm as well as 450D to get that semi pro body. Didnt know if it was worth it at first. After the trade, i was blur with the settings everywhere as the manual was in Japanese. Slowly tried here and there and ended up getting quite used to the camera on the second day. Unfortunately the LCD saturated preview was unlike my previous 450d. Thats one thing i m trying to learn to stick with till today. After setting the 40D roughly, it was time to have some test shots. What better shots then sunset in Miri Esplanade... Brought everyone at home (My bro and sis in laws) to fetch another sis in law at school, and then we headed to our fav place, Miri Esplanade. Here are the first few shots of the 40D.. :D

My final words, WORTH EVERY SINGLE CENT... pics came out priceless.. :D

Photographer : intruxion @ Fauzi
Gears : Canon EOS 40D | Nissin Di622 | Tamron 18-200mm

The Spring Mall Show

Its Gawai eve and me and my wife have nothing to do and have no plans for the night.. So we headed out to test the 18-200 tamron after it has done good during my neighbour's wedding on that early morning. :D Snap a few tele shots at Taman Sahabat at Kuching and ended up for dinner at Sushi King at The Spring Mall.. We were so lucky that there was not only L lens for show and sell by Copal which we viewed but also there's this dance show in conjunction of Gawai Celebration i guess.. So here are shots me and my wife had taken. We were not the only shooting gang as there were few more dslr shooters around.. it was fun.. :D

Photographers : Aya @ Desire and intruxion @ Fauzi
Gears : Canon EOS 450D | Canon 18-55mm IS | Canon 50mm | Tamron 18-200mm | Nissin Di622