I’ve recently had the opportunity to give my first impressions of an upcoming unreleased lens from Fujifilm, the 18mm f1.4 WR lens. A special thank you to the team at Fujifilm Singapore and Ivan for loaning me this unit to test it out - especially when I had a pre-wed session and an actual day wedding scheduled.

Okay, we all know that Fujifilm is gonna launch the medium-format GFX100S soon, and I had a chance to hold and test out the beast of a camera, thanks to Ivan Joshua Loh, a Fujifilm X-Photographer in Singapore.

This is just going to be a short, quick post on my initial thoughts on the new camera.

After considering it for a few good years, I finally relented and purchased the well-marketed SecretLab chair. I know I know, it’s “over-rated”, it’s not as “good” as some other chairs. It’s not as “comfortable” as Herman Miller and so on. But considering the price that people are paying for luxurious gaming/massage hybrid chairs as well as best in class Herman Miller chairs, I would say that the SecretLab chair is actually pretty decent for its price, functionality and looks.

‘Hey, it’s too damn early. Gosh, waking up at 4 am for a pre-wedding/engagement shoot? You’ve got to be kidding me. I need my sleep.’

Photography is all about light. And what’s better than normal light? Golden hour light. The golden hours in Singapore, from experience, typically is around 6.30 am - 7.30 am depending on the location for sunrise, and around 6 pm-7 pm for sunsets. What’s the golden hour?

The way the Singapore government has handled the Covid situation has impressed many, here and around the world. Several countries are reporting second or even third waves of Covid infections and deaths, but here we are in the heart of the central business district (CBD) in Singapore, happily snapping away.

As it was slightly drizzling, I had decided ‘Reflections’ to be the theme of the day. I thought I had it easy.

There are so many things I had wanted to do, but never really found the time to, especially after my first kid. One of it was visiting the neighbourhoods that I grew up in, or rather, neighbourhood. I have lived in Tampines all my life. Yes, even now that I’m married with a kid.

Singapore’s famous shopping street, Orchard Road, can be pretty bustling once human traffic streams in, especially around the late morning as retail starts bursting into life. You get to see all walks of life, from the ‘busy’ office worker who decides to have an early coffee break, to the young student on his/her way to class (or shop).

And then you get uncles like me, with a camera in his hands, perched and ready to strike. To photograph, that is, with my trusty and current favourite camera, the Fujifilm X100V.

With weddings now scaled down due to the Covid19 pandemic, many couples have been scrambling to find the next suitable venue outside of the usual hotel ballrooms and grand churches. Lo and behold, on the island of Sentosa, there is a beautiful restaurant known as the Panamericana. I have photographed there once, and I have loved the setting ever since.

So recently I’ve decided to pick up photographing on film after a long time of putting it away. No, it wasn’t for fun. I had wanted to do it but just couldn’t find time until Covid19 struck and made us reflect on things a little.