These are some of the casual portrait shots taken at Moniqus’s home during the Chinese New Year visiting. I love the orange color feature wall in his living room that simply adding warm and cheerful feeling to boost up the new year mood. :-)  

For the last few year, Jee Sing, Wei Chiet Yen Pei and I always visit the Tua Pek Kong temple on the 30th night after our family reunion dinner. This tradition continued even though both Wei Chiet and Yen Pei were not back to Kuching for this Chinese New Year celebration. This year is rather special for me as it was my first time to have my little baby boy join me for the temple visiting on new year eve. My naughty boy was so happy staring at those red lanterns that decorating this used to be the oldest temple in Kuching. May be someday all of our children will visit this temple together on the Chinese New Year eve just llike what we did all these year.

Chinese new year is just around the corner so i will start my break from tomorrow onward. Hopefully can take some good rest because there is still long way ahead waiting for me. Wishing everyone a prosperous year ahead and enjoy your long festive holiday.

Almost all the photos that I shoot are in the RAW format despite its file size is easily triple the size of the similar JPEG format. These RAW files can rapidly fill the memory card or even the hard disk and it is a headaches process to transfer and backup all the files. Further more these RAW files require more post processing job before it can be viewed and printed at any photo lab.

The only reason for me to shoot in RAW file is just to preserve all the information without losing any data due to the JPEG compression in order for me to recover more details or even twist the color temperature during the post processing. Color temperature is something that can give surprising output when the RAW file is twisted along the blue-yellow axis. Sometime many people will be very particular to get the correct color temperature but it is a bonus when we get difference feeling from the shifted colour temperature.

FYI, i found this leafy sweet potato sprout inside my mum’s kitchen during the raining season few months back. I must admit that this is my first encounter with the sweet potato sprout that’s why i took it as my experimental subject.

Image produced from cool color temperature

The color shifting from cool to warm temperature

The warm color temperature produced nice mono tone image

The image for corrected color temperature