Tracks

Using an ultra-compact to shoot this, couldn't slow it down more to get the motion-blur. Stil, not bad to be able to capture some movement. Especially since this is a slowing-down locomobile.

The old phrase 'like ships passing at sea' needs to be updated in this cosmo, bullet-train age.

Something about train tracks that makes me want to zip out the cam. Partly the colors, a lot to do with the lines and perspective I think.

Get cancer in style

When women smoke, they do it in style. Doesn't matter if they die younger. Doesn't matter if they shoot their lungs to hell. Doesn't matter if their breath is horrible on a kiss. As long as it is done in style...

RICOH Caplio R6
f/5.2
1/36s
ISO 400

Children make great subjects, especially in bright natural light apparently. Side-lights aren't too good because they gaunt the eye-sockets. I thought the dirty shoe my boy picked up would make a good point of interest; especially for obsessive moms to gasp at. My wife certainly did and I almost got smack over the head for it!

RICOH Caplio R6
1/410s
f/3.3
ISO 100

Coffee Oils

Ever wondered what gives freshly brewed coffee it's o-so-wonderful aroma? The next time you sip your cuppa, take a close look at the coffee oils floating up and you can almost see them aromatise right up your nose. This was a Hainan white coffee at Old Town. They have nice soft lights above to capture reflecting off the tar-black sheen of a 'kopi-O-kosong gao'

RICOH Caplio R6
1/45s
f/3.6
ISO 400

Reach for the sky

Probably the most over-photographed icon of Kuala Lumpur. Armed with my new RICOH R6, I couldn't resist it. Standing at the foot of the towers, all it took was a few seconds to reach for the compact on my waist, aim up, tweak a little and snap. Not too bad?

Noise was minimal at ISO800 (click on pic to see detail), and shooting single-handedly with baby in other arm, handshake was cancelled out by the nifty sensor-shift image stabiliser. 

RICOH Caplio R6
1/28s
f/3.3
ISO 800