Happy Birthday My Pirate Boy

My pirate boy turned 5 on Sunday, so I've used the opportunity to take some pictures of him in his pirate costume in my mini studio. The boat that he sat on made by his sister, Regina, using a shoe-box, she added some pictures on it.

We got honk by the train conductor ;)

C53K0271, a photo by pyongbricole on Flickr.

We took this picture at an abandoned train station, Julien pretended to get the train ride for free.

La Saint-Jean - fête médiévale

La Saint-Jean - fête médiévale, a set on Flickr.

I am back.....!
It's been a while since the last time I passed by to say hi to all of you. Time flies, now we already in the middle of the summer 2011. 3 weeks ago, I attended a Medievale Festival near Lake of Gruyere (Fribourg, Switzerland), and here some snapshots that I would like to share with all of you.

I am back

Novita, a photo by laperlenoire on Flickr.

I am sorry for being away for so long. It's been a chaotic moment for me since there are so many things to do and I wish I could have more 36 hours a day. Well, here I am, back to the community, with a new idea to get involve in my photography activity, be a model myself.

When I get involve in both sides of the camera, it actually helps me to create unlimited possibilities poses. Before I only demanding my model to pose what I think will looks good behind camera, when I am in front of the camera, actually I could imagine more things. Like for example when I took this picture (this picture was taking by Julien), I told him how I would like the angle to be taken....and I imagine myself behind the view finder, and at once....voila....I've got this picture exactly the same as the one I had in my mine.

Concert at Grimisuat - 19 February 2011

This is the one of my favorite song from our last night concert at Eglise Paroissiale de Grimisuat (VS).
Hallelujah (the french version of the one written by Leonard Cohen)

Almost Unforgotten Bali (Most beautiful moment in Indonesia)

Just came back from Bali last Thursday. I was a tiring trip, considering I took 30-hour flights to stay only for 5 days, but worth it. I had a chance to be upclose personal with a glimpse of Indonesia's almost forgotten life - Petani di sawah (translation : farmer on the rice field). The last decade, when people talk about Indonesia, first picture I had was Jakarta the Cosmopolitan.

I saw this farmer somewhere at Sidemen (eastern Bali), I was doing my small "walk" on the rice terrace and he was there, right in front of me, working on Sunday afternoon. This was typical image we had seen on Indonesian local TV station back at my Primary's years, but later on, everybody tend to forget how the rice on their plate had been produced - isn't that sad?

I had some people asked me how to make this type of picture. It's actually quite easy, first, I edit the picture with my Adobe Photoshop CS4 extended - I put the picture to almost black and white, gave a bit sepia tone on it, add the scratch and dust to give the old feeling. What make it different is actually I add an mask from my digital scrapbooking elements collection as a layer to my edited picture. It was the mask which gave the folded mark on the picture. And by the end, I just flatten the image all together. As simple as that.

Image information : I took the picture with my Canon EOS 5D mark II using Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6L USM IS

Are you ready for Valentine's Day ?

It's about 2-week from now, but honestly, I am not ready...at all. But my website does :) Before leaving for Bali coming Thursday, I update my website, so it's ready for the coming Valentine's day.....