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Winning photographs of 10th annual Canon PhotoMarathon in Singapore

Saturday, November 3rd, 2012

2,419 participants took part in the Singapore leg of the Canon PhotoMarathon Asia, at Marina Bay Sands Singapore. Here are the winning photos.

Winning portfolio of Best of Show winner in the Open category - Koh Zhi Kai. Themes from left: Wonder, Harmony, Pleasure.

Winning portfolio of Best of Show winner in the Open category – Koh Zhi Kai. Themes from left: Wonder, Harmony, Pleasure.

Beginning at 9am in the morning, this year’s attendance of the day-long competition was an increase of 15% over last year.

Winning portfolio of Best of Show winner in the Student category - Jerrer Lee. Themes from left: Wonder, Harmony, Pleasure.

Winning portfolio of Best of Show winner in the Student category – Jerrer Lee. Themes from left: Wonder, Harmony, Pleasure.

There were two categories of participants – Open and Student. For each category, there were three themes – Wonder, Harmony and Pleasure.

Top 3 entries for the first theme - "Wonder" - in the Open category. From left: Sawo Ediesetijono, Edmund Kwok, Henry Ong.

Top 3 entries for the first theme – “Wonder” – in the Open category. From left: Sawo Ediesetijono, Edmund Kwok, Henry Ong.

18 prizes were given to the top three winners of the three themes for each category. Prizes given included Canon products such as the Canon EOS 5D Mark III and Canon EOS 650D digital SLRs.

Top 3 entries for the first theme - "Wonder" - in the Student category. From left: Troy Yeo, Phongsakon Saranrithichai, Gracia Ow.Top 3 entries for the first theme - "Wonder" - in the Open category. From left: Troy Yeo, Phongsakon Saranrithichai, Gracia Ow.

Top 3 entries for the first theme – “Wonder” – in the Student category. From left: Troy Yeo, Phongsakon Saranrithichai, Gracia Ow.

In addition, Best of Show awards were given for each of the two categories – for the best collection of images from all three themes.

Top 3 entries for the second theme - "Harmony" - in the Open category. From left: Sam Chong, Wee Keng Hor, Wong Jiaming.

Top 3 entries for the second theme – “Harmony” – in the Open category. From left: Sam Chong, Wee Keng Hor, Wong Jiaming.

The two Best of Show winners – Koh Zhi Kai (Open) and Jerrer Lee – will be going on an eight-day all-expense-paid photo clinic to Hungary.

Top 3 entries for the second theme - "Harmony" - in the Student category. From left: Benjamin Lee, Jerrer Lee, Dian Putrisyah Shahrudin.

Top 3 entries for the second theme – “Harmony” – in the Student category. From left: Benjamin Lee, Jerrer Lee, Dian Putrisyah Shahrudin.

This year’s competition also featured a Celebrity Challenge.

Top 3 entries for the third theme - "Pleasure" - in the Open category. From left: Leslie Quek, Muhammad Razaleigh Bin Mohame, Koh Zhi Kai.

Top 3 entries for the third theme – “Pleasure” – in the Open category. From left: Leslie Quek, Muhammad Razaleigh Bin Mohame, Koh Zhi Kai.

Under this challenge, local celebrities – The Muttons, Jade Seah, Ross, Dawn Yeo and Nat Ho – competed against each other based on the theme, Pleasure.

Top 3 entries for the third theme - "Pleasure" - in the Student category. From left: Rudyanto AKil Yusoff, Paul Tang, Marcus Chong Jey Leng.

Top 3 entries for the third theme – “Pleasure” – in the Student category. From left: Rudyanto AKil Yusoff, Paul Tang, Marcus Chong Jey Leng.

Canon will be donating S$5,000 to the winning celebrity, Vernon A’s charity of choice – Children’s Cancer Foundation.

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New printer: Canon SELPHY CP900

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Canon has announced its first Wi-Fi-enabled compact photo printer. The SELPHY CP900 hits the shelves in Singapore on 30 August at S$199.

The Canon SELPHY CP900 compact printer comes in black, white or pink.

The Canon SELPHY CP900 compact printer comes in black, white or pink.

With built-in Wi-Fi, the SELPHY CP900 enables users to instantly and wirelessly print photos taken with smartphones and tablets anytime, anywhere.

White Canon SELPHY CP900 compact printer.The compact printer can connect wirelessly to iOS and eventually to Android devices.

It can also connect wirelessly to a wide range of commonly-used devices like laptops and PCs to print photos.

iPhone/iPad users can print photos via Canon’s EasyPhotoPrint app which can be downloaded from the Apple App store.

The Android application will only be available end December 2012.

If you’re using a BlackBerry or Windows Phone, then you’re out of luck. You won’t be able to print directly from the smartphone or tablet to the CP900.

Black Canon SELPHY CP900 compact printer.

Black Canon SELPHY CP900 compact printer.

The SELPHY CP900’s wireless capabilities also support DPS over IP (this is a standard for interconnecting devices over LAN/wireless) for cameras to connect and print wirelessly without going through a router.

Printing from a memory card or external drives is also possible.

The SELPHY CP900 is equipped with a slot compatible with the widely-used SD/SDHC/SDHC/SDXC/MMC/ MMCplus/HC MMCplus storage cards.

It also has an USB slot for easy access to photos saved in a flash drive or hard disk.

Pink Canon SELPHY CP900 compact printer.

Pink Canon SELPHY CP900 compact printer.

The SELPHY CP900 uses a dye-sublimation system which provides excellent gradations at a high 300×300 dpi resolution.

The printer has three new optimisation scenes – Cloudy, Blue Sky and Sunset – and automatically and intelligently analyses and corrects images, correcting their brightness, contrast and reduces noise before printing.

Users can preview photos with the 2.7” LCD Display which has a wide viewing angle.

With the increasing popularity of photo-sharing software and apps like Instagram which captures photos in a square format,

“With an increasing amount of consumers using their mobile phones and popular apps such as Instagram to take photos, the SELPHY CP900 provides creative solutions which will allow for a more personalised, long-lasting copy of their photos and memories,” said Andrew Koh, Senior Director and General Manager of the Consumer Imaging and Information Products Group, Canon Singapore.

The SELPHY CP900 enables users to print square format photos from Instagram with the new 54 X 54mm square ratio paper.

Canon sticker labels available in this new size allow for easy personalisation on any surface.

The SELPHY CP900 can also print postcard size and ID photos of up to 28 different sizes (ICAO standard) with cropping.

“佳能推出了新的袖珍型照片打印机。SELPHY CP900 利用dye sublimation 可引出鲜艳持久的照片。苹果iPhone使用者可利用其无限衔接能力方便印刷。Android使用者得等到年尾才会有适用的运用程序。Windows Phone 以及 BlackBerry 用户则无法直接通过手机传送印刷。” – 科技点心（微薄）

To maximise cost-efficiency, the SELPHY CP900 is also able to print ID photos of up to two different people on a single sheet of paper.

To prevent fading, photos printed with the SELPHY CP900 are protected by a durable protective print over-coating.

This protective over-coating helps preserve these precious memories for up to 100 years if kept in a photo album.

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Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Sunday, August 19th, 2012

Here’s wishing all Muslim friends: “Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri“!

The Floating Mosque in Kuala Terengganu.

The Floating Mosque in Kuala Terengganu.

This is the Tengku Tengah Zaharah Mosque in Kuala Terengganu in Malaysia. It is also known as the Floating Mosque – situated in Kuala Ibai Lagoon, about 4km from Kuala Terengganu Town.

My family was on vacation back in 2004 and driving to Kuala Terengganu when we were attracted by this beautiful mosque enroute.

This photo was shot from the playground across the lagoon, using a Sony compact digital camera, handheld in the dim twilight, and output directly to JPEG.

 

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Gigapixel image for London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Super high-resolution image will capture each of the 70,000 spectators in detail. The 20-Gigapixel photograph will be uploaded and spectators will be able to zoom in, locate and tag themselves.

Getty Images is the official Photographic Agency for the London 2012 Olympic Games which opens tomorrow.

Getty Images is the official Photographic Agency for the London 2012 Olympic Games which opens tomorrow.

Ahead of tomorrow’s Olympics Opening Ceremony in London, Getty Images and Fujitsu have announced that they will be snapping a gigapixel photograph of the event, enabling spectators – all 70,000 of them! – to zoom in, find and tag themselves.

This is the camera set up that Getty Images’ gigapixel photographer Henry Stuart will be using at London 2012 Olympics. It’s a Nikon D800. (Photo credit: Henry Stuart)

This is the camera set up that Getty Images’ gigapixel photographer Henry Stuart will be using at London 2012 Olympics. It’s a Nikon D800. (Photo credit: Henry Stuart)

Images of such a high resolution usually take days to upload but thanks to leading-edge speed and performance of the Fujitsu CELSIUS R920 workstation, the image will be available to view on www.gettyimages.com overnight – up to 12 times faster than previously possible.

This will be the 13th consecutive Olympics for which Getty Images has been appointed as the Official Photographic Agency to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

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Winning entries for 2012 Getty Images Creative Grants

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Photographers Linka Anne Odom and Klaus Thymann, alongside agencies Good Pilot and Mother London, have won the 2012 Getty Images Creative Grants.

Each of the two teams will receive US$15,000.

Pathways sees photographer Linka Anne Odom and agency Good Pilot collaborate with D-Foundation to pursue a project which aims to recruit volunteers to increase effectiveness of medical care provided to vulnerable people in India. Through their visual communication, they aim to inspire doctors to travel to India and donate their skills to the project, as well as raise awareness around D-Foundation itself by creating pop-up exhibitions highlighting the charity’s work in hospitals around Germany.

Pathways sees photographer Linka Anne Odom and agency Good Pilot collaborate with D-Foundation to pursue a project which aims to recruit volunteers to increase effectiveness of medical care provided to vulnerable people in India. Through their visual communication, they aim to inspire doctors to travel to India and donate their skills to the project, as well as raise awareness around D-Foundation itself by creating pop-up exhibitions highlighting the charity’s work in hospitals around Germany.

This year, the Getty Images Creative Grants received 75 submissions from photographers and agencies in 20 countries.

Each team comprises a photographer and communications professional.

The US$15,000 will be used to cover the costs of developing compelling new imagery to strengthen the communications of a non-profit organisation the recipients have chosen to support.

Project Pressure, by photographer Klaus Thymann and agency Mother London will visually highlight global glacial history, before the demise of this natural wonder. The grant will enable Thymann to travel to Nepal, where he will document the field work of the Project Pressure team and the impact of glacial retreat on the local population. As well as imagery and video, Mother London will also utilize social media platforms and narrated slideshows to record his work.

Project Pressure, by photographer Klaus Thymann and agency Mother London will visually highlight global glacial history, before the demise of this natural wonder. The grant will enable Thymann to travel to Nepal, where he will document the field work of the Project Pressure team and the impact of glacial retreat on the local population. As well as imagery and video, Mother London will also utilize social media platforms and narrated slideshows to record his work.

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Photo Contest: Home Without Walls (Open Category)

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

SingTel has launched the Open Category of the “Home Without Walls” photo contest. The contest is open to all Singaporeans from today to 5 August, 2012; and has a top prize of S$2,500.

SingTel "Home Without Walls" campaign photography contest Open Category

This contest is part of a series of activities under the “Home Without Walls” campaign.

The campaign aims to inspire Singaporeans to connect with their families and forge stronger bonds with their loved ones.

The Grand Prize winner for the Open Category contest will walk away with S$2,500, and the individual winners for each of the four category themes will enjoy S$500 in cash prize.

This photo contest is open to all Singaporeans and submission is done through the SingTel FaceBook page.

Photographs can be taken with any camera, including mobile devices. Selected entries will be collated into a set of limited edition postcards which will be distributed at a later stage.

Winning photographs from each category will be published by SingTel.

Judging panel

  • Mr Lim Soon Hock
    – Chairman of National Family Council and the Centre for Fathering
  • Ms Daphne Ling
    – Winner of the ‘Best Parenting Blog’ at the Singapore Blog Awards 2011
  • Mr Suhaimi Abdullah
    – Grand Prize Winner of the Professional Category photo contest

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Photos: iLight 2012

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

I brought the kids down to the Merlion Park last Sunday to catch the last day of the iLight Marina Bay 2012. The lighting display was beautiful, while the kids enjoyed the “DIY” light-painting of the Merlion – despite the hour-long queue.

The lasers were not out yet because it was still early. The rainbow lights from the boats provided its own light display.

The lasers were not out yet because it was still early. The rainbow lights from the boats provided its own light display.

The iLight Marina Bay 2012 lasted from 9 March to 1 April 2012 this year.

This was the second edition of the sustainable light art festival, which was first organised last year.

Merlion during iLight Marina Bay 2012It was organised by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) in collaboration with Smart Light Singapore.

The lighting festival had the photography community in Singapore abuzz with excitement as photographers, both professionals and amateurs, flocked to the vicinity to snap beautiful pictures of the light.

Children loved the Merlion light-painting.

Using a large touch-screen monitor, they could select parts of the Merlion and then paint it with a colour of their choice from a colour palette.

Brightly-garbed Merlion spewing its blessings onto the Esplanade.

Brightly-garbed Merlion spewing its blessings onto the Esplanade.

As they filled in the colours, coloured light was projected onto the actual Merlion statue, according to their selections.

The Merlion has never been more spoilt for choice when it came to choosing his party clothes.

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Visit the Amazon on Google Street View

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Ever fancied taking an adventure tour of the Amazon River to explore its nature and culture? Now you can – right from your armchair in the comfort of your home.

Armchair explorers can now trek through the forests of the Amazon Basin from the comfort of their home.

Armchair explorers can now trek through the forests of the Amazon Basin from the comfort of their home.

In conjunction with World Forest Day on 21 March, Google has brought more than 50,000 photos of the Amazon Basin onto your computer in the form of immersive, 360-degree panoramic views within Google Street View.

Spot a critter while cruising down the Amazon river.

Spot a critter while cruising down the Amazon river.

Cruise down Amazon river, trek through the jungles, try to spot a forest critter, or peer into life in the local community.

Many areas of the Amazon, including Rio Negro Reserve, are under the protection of the Brazilian government with restricted access to the public.

Many of us would therefore not have the chance to visit these areas even if we wanted to.

Google’s photographers were invited by Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS), the local non-profit conservation organisation to collect ground-level images of the rivers, forest and communities in the Rio Negro Reserve.

Check out the depths of the Amazon via Google Maps Street View.

Check out the depths of the Amazon via Google Maps Street View.

These images are now available in Google Maps via its Street View feature.

The images were collected by a Street View trike, and a tripod camera with a fisheye lens—typically used to capture imagery of business interiors —to capture both the natural landscape and the local communities.

The apparatus allows access to rugged terrain inaccessible to the usual Google Street cars.

A similar trike was used to capture 360-degree street-level images of iconic landmarks in Singapore last year.

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Remembering the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disasters in Japan

Monday, March 12th, 2012

It’s hard to imagine one year has passed since the triple disasters struck in north eastern Japan on 11 March 2011.

I can still remember vividly the terrifying footage of the earthquakes that started it all; the gruesome images of the tsunami rolling in and cars in its path being swept aside; and the subsequent alarm arising from the melt-down at the nuclear plant in Fukushima.

Amidst news updates of the repeatedly futile attempts to bring the melt-down under control and to stem the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere, the greatest consolation was the quick and generous response of other countries to offer aid for the disaster victims – as well as the steadfast and stoic resilience shown by the victims themselves.

Photo tribute to the victims of the disasters and the volunteers.

Photo tribute to the victims of the disasters and the volunteers.

Although saddened by the tragedy like many others, I put together a compilation – at that time – of some photos that I’d taken over the years in Japan.

“Photos that bring to mind some pleasant memories of a beautiful country with a wonderful culture, and most importantly the hospitable and kind people that I’ve had the privilege of encountering in Japan.

In the mass of depressing scenes depicting the horrors of the disasters, hopefully these photos will help remind us of the beautiful Japan.” March 27, 2011.

I’d hoped that the images would slightly ameliorate the depression caused by the horrors of the disasters.

It seems apt that one year after that fateful night, we should take pause from our hectic lives to remember the victims of the triple disaster, who had perished or who are still suffering from the aftermath.

May the passage of time heal the terrible wounds and losses that nature has so terribly dealt them.

Below is the photo remembrance that I compiled last year – my own little contribution – terribly insignificant compared to those who had risked life and limb physically helping out at the scene of the disasters.

May we also remember these selfless workers and volunteers who truly displayed the greatness of the human spirit.

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Getty Images Creative Grants

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Getty Images announced today the rebranding of the Grants for Good as Getty Images Creative Grants. Two grants of $15,000 are up for grabs. Applications close on 1 March.

Getty Images Creative Grants - applications end on 1 March.

Getty Images Creative Grants – applications end on 1 March.

The rebranded Getty Images Creative Grants will increase emphasis on the innovative use of creative and conceptual imagery and film.

“Nonprofits need compelling creative content to effectively tell their stories and stand out from the documentary style traditionally associated with the nonprofit sector,” said Andrew Saunders, Senior Vice President of Creative Content for Getty Images. “Together with creative agencies and content creators these organizations can leverage innovative conceptual imagery to raise awareness around critical world issues.”Fostering the collaboration between photographers and filmmakers with agency creatives and nonprofits, the grants will fund the creation of a compelling visual campaign that promotes positive change.

In addition to the cash prize, the winning photographer-agency or filmmaker-agency team will have the opportunity to leverage the expertise of Getty Images’ art directors, photo editors and producers to execute the project.

Online applications can be made at the website of Getty Images Grants.

The grants will be awarded by independent judges, each selected by Getty Images based on their  industry standing and experience.

Applications will be evaluated against criteria which include the strength and concept of the portfolio imagery as well as the level of collaboration between the creative communications agency and the nonprofit, to create a compelling visual narrative.

Winners will be announced in June at the 2012 Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.

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