A tough week has come to an end, it’s time for a recharge. Here’s one for you cat lovers out there.
Kittens are sure cute. They’re so adorable and innocent. Same with puppies and other pets. Please show some love to them, and not hurt them! This is a mixed breed of Persian kitten, which caught my attention when I visited the Sunday Market, Satok few weeks back.
I personally love this edit, and will turn this into a print. It’ll be hanging around in my office the next time you visit me. 
Thanks to Canon and Great Wall Photo, I had a chance to try out on the much anticipated EOS monster. Will be sharing my experience on the brief encounter.
In case you missed out on the previous demo/try out session, there is another session scheduled on July 31, 1:30pm — 6:00pm, at Great Wall Photo.
My brief encounter with EOS 1DX. A self shot to the mirror in the display cabinet, while Edwin Lay looked on.
SPIDER-MAN vs GREEN GOBLIN: It’s mid-year, and this is the time when some of the largest Hollywood Blockbusters go on screen. Coincidentally, this pair of parrots has the color scheme for both the Marvel Comic’s red-blue hero and the villain.
I shot this image in one of my recent visit to Kuching’s unique weekend marketplace at Satok. The birds’ color are lovely, unfortunately the cage was so small, and I couldn’t do much bout the cage which got in the way.
Happy weekend, everyone!
The Sunday Market, as how Kuching folks call it, has been around for a long, long time. It is one of the most iconic marketplace in the city. Despite its history, it couldn’t avoid the fate of urbanization. It is believed that the market will be relocated to other location after Hari Raya festival, making way for ‘yet another’ urbanization project by the local government.
I decided to take a walk in the market, allowing myself to know the place better, before it goes into history, and could only recall in memories.
![[B&W] Sunday Market, Satok, Kuching](http://allenang.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/50D_5046_web1.jpg "50D_5046_web")
The operation hour for Sunday market. This would not be applicable anymore after they move out to a new location, right across the river.
![[B&W] Sunday Market, Satok, Kuching](http://allenang.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/5D2_9892_web1.jpg "5D2_9892_web")
Holding the father's hand, following his lead to the market.
![[B&W] Sunday Market, Satok, Kuching](http://allenang.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/5D2_9925_web1.jpg "5D2_9925_web")
Caution.
Aperture has been one of my favorite image handling software since my switch to Mac OS. I have been using Aperture since its very first release, and now its third iteration.
I went through some old sets of images in my hard drive, trying to clear of some junks/old archives. And, I stumbled upon a couple of images taken in quite bad lighting condition. I thought it might be a good chance to test out the presets. I never really make use of the Presets in Aperture 3.0, so I asked myself if I could do anything to improve the output for these two images.
I shot this without flash, only with the stage lighting. The lighting seems rather flat here, which is not to my liking.
Here's another shot which I took from the same stage, this photo was straight from Adobe's RAW processing, without much adjustment, if none at all. Not very nice.
I must say, the output is quite impressive. I applied the presets intuitively. I made use of the preview function before applying the presets. I’m sharing both the two images here for comparison.
Comparison between the two images: There wasn't much adjustment or tweaking done on Aperture. I only stacked up a few sets of the Preset. I quite like the outcome.
Comparison: Again, here's the before and after comparison. I think the image stands out more after applying the simple presets on Aperture.
These presets could be life savers, if not saves a large amount of time on post processing. Manual adjustment on post processing can be quite tedious and time consuming.
Final Result: The final outcome is rather pleasing, surprisingly. (scroll up to compare to original image) NOTE: The original image is not quite in focus, despite so, after the post processing, the final outcome is somewhat acceptable.
Final outcome: It's rather pleasing to see how the image turned out after a few clicks on the Aperture. I think it's rather amazing tool to use.
月亮代表誰的心？
The moon, forever mysterious. I wonder, what lies behind the dark side of the moon? Decepticons and their base? Maybe. But for now, moon is always beautiful when it’s at its brightest and nearest distance to Earth (when it appears big and round).