Cityscape of Singapore
In this last set of photos from the Nuffnang Blogger’s Award held recently in Singapore. These was taken through my Nikon camera armed with a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X. Shot during the Blogger’s tour of Singapore.
The following 2 shot was taken from the inside of the Singapore Flyer. (more…)
Official Photos from The Nuffnang Bloggers’ tour of Singapore
Following suit from the Nuffnang Awards, the Bloggers from outside of Singapore was given a tour of the island city to the various parts to soak in the cultural and technological extravaganza. Following are photos from the tour.
Sorry if your photos are not in here as I could only go into the tour with 2 groups and could not join up with the other groups and shoot from there. Hopefully you’d get photos from the various bloggers that is in your group yah. (more…)
Portraits: Hitomi
Hitomi asked me recently to help her take some portraits of hers and at a recent session, these was what I took. What do you think?
Portraits: c-0-c-o
From the other day, apart from the Darlie photo you see on Coco’s blog, here’s some of the other shots taken from a day out taking photos. Feel free to comment on the photos, there’s no specific theme to the shots but was more on playing around with the camera, settings and the surroundings.
The photo above was shot using a flat colored background for the studio look while the one at the bottom was shot outside the shopping complex. It’s a bit hard to shoot the 2nd photo as there’s constantly people walking past and stopping to see what’s going on. (more…)
Nuffnangers’ Indecent Exposure
This was planned about 2 weeks back after some on the shoutbox was asking about doing portraiture and so forth and so forth, so with a mass email going out, some suggestions bouncing about and all and next thing we knew, the day arrived where we met at the bus terminal heading to the location of choice to snap some photos.
The Victims
AndyStorm, Ying Zhi and Joanne Chan. (more…)
Bye Bye GeoCities
According to BBC News, Yahoo is pulling the plug on Geocities. A Service Yahoo bought for $3.57bn at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999. The Free Website hosting service, Geocities, had to come to an end sooner or later.
I still remember back then, GeoCities is one of the service to go to if you want to have a website for yourself and don’t want to pay for it. Even though it’s a free web service, it’s easy to use interface still could rival some of the off-line web editing software to help you build a nice looking website. (more…)
My Wordpress Plugin
I’m no wordpress plugin author so when I say my wordpress plugin, I’m not talking about plugins that I wrote for wordpress blog but more of the plugins that I have in my blog which I find useful and like to share with anyone who’s curious. Links to the respective plugins are also included so you could also download the plugins for yourself.
Just a quick note for those that’s not sure how to install the plugin, just download, use your fav. FTP program (I uses FileZilla that ShaolinTiger recommended to me) and upload it into
your plugin folder (…/wp-content/plugins) and then activate it through your wordpress admin (…/wp-admin/plugins.php). Just look for this icon if you’re not sure what I’m talking about.
Akismet: http://akismet.com/
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging. It isn’t 100% foolproof but for what it was designed to do, it still produce good work to keep spam away from my blog. It’s intuitive enough to mark some comments into a spam folder just in case the comment isn’t really a spam so I could look at it and approve it or permanently delete it at my own convenience.
CommentLuv: http://www.commentluv.com/
CommentLuv enabled me to reward my blog readers by leaving a link to their latest post automatically whenever they comment thus encouraging more comments by more people on more posts! It definitely helped me to increase traffic to my site as well to the people who comments on mine. Only Relax find problem with it on my blog as commentluv wouldn’t recognize his link, aside from that, most commentors that commented on my blog have their link posted unless they opt not to. So do drop me some comments and see your link posted here to encourage others to visit your blog as well. At the end of the day, it’s a win-win situation which is healthy in promoting one another. Right?
For Blogger users, do not fret as they also provide the service for Blogger/Blogspot platform. You can find it at http://www.commentluv.com/download/blogger-commentluv/. You’ll need to use the JS-kit commenting system on your blogger blog, you will be able to use CommentLuv Blogger and start enjoying the benefits of being able to add something unique and valuable to your visitors experience. (more…)
