(|On the freeway going to the airport to drop my brother off| Sort of fitting the first picture is actually taken on January 1st. Crazy New Years Eve in which I thought my brother got kidnapped and his organs sold in China)
I actually had no intentions of putting up a second feature so quickly. But the front banner as you’ll see constantly tries to scroll to a next feature/image. We weren’t able to temporarily disable it and somebody mentioned it was making them nervous, always watching it slide over to no avail and bounce back. So over the weekend, I figured it would be cool to put together some of my favorite images from 2009. Some probably have a better story than others and some have none, but I hope you enjoy nonetheless.
When I started this site, one of the main reasons was to in fact have a place for photography. I’ll throw out the self-handicapping statement, I’m far from the best photographer, but the stuff I shoot for myself, I genuinely like. In a position where I’m not paid and don’t have anybody else to satisfy, this will more than suffice. I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m useless when it comes to visual communication. Drawing/painting, all that shit I’m just terrible. Photography seemed to be my one out, where I could actually produce something that I could share with the world on a visual level that I wasn’t ashamed off. Now that I think of it, maybe I have poor manual dexterity with a writing/communication utensil in my hand cause my handwriting looks like I wrote it with my feet… yeh that bad.
Before I cap this off, looks as though my friend Bobby Hundreds put his own 2009 Picture Review (landscape format) up but took a different approach and left everything un-captioned. I’ve always had conflicting opinions on doing that and whether there needs to be some contextual background to understand something creative that didn’t come from your own hands. Or does it defeat the purpose if you yourself spell out what’s in front of you. Maybe photography doesn’t need a conceptual background as much as something much more abstract, cause after all photography is very much real and a reflection of something tangible.
Hope you enjoy and have a happy holiday!
-Eugene
wow these pics are cool and teachin me a little bit about hong kong and making me want to go there too. wish i could.
by the way, whats up with that thing in pink????
great photos. looked like a good year.
Eug you have a great eye and those are some stellar pics. How are you gonna top it in ‘10?
The pink suit is none other than The Pink Amigo haha.
Thanks JP… I think the overall trend was that traveling is helpful in finding and discovering new shit across the board. Both from a new landscape perspective, but also from a personal development perspective.
great stuff, awesome pics!
all the great cities u visited definitely made me jealous! hah, cool that singapore got to represent too!!
which camera do use btw?
Yeh traveling was pretty fun this year.
Most of the shots are a Canon 50D with a Sigma 30mm f1.4. Pretty much my everyday set-up, but since I got a Canon S90 I sometimes bring both and switched out the Sigma 30 for just a cheap Canon 50mm f1.8. I might invest in some decent glass if/when I go full-frame but it’s not really a priority right now.
Awesome pics man. You must take an enormous amount of photos though. How on earth did you manage to filter it down to 8 pages of pics?
It wasn’t that bad, cause I keep my shit super organized in Lightroom and have ratings for them. It’s out of 5 stars but usually I just mark it either 3 stars through 5 stars. I just picked what I thought were 4 stars or higher.
like that black and white chinatown pic. seems like it could be from any era.
Yeah, I really like the Chinatown shots too, and not just because of the “Where’s Waldo?” moment I had when I spotted Papa Kan in one of them (that is him, right?). This site’s off to a good start..
Oh yeh, that’s Papa Kan alright haha… the hair is hard to miss.
I’m down with that Jordan, Hong Kong picture, I love how rugged/clean the buildings can be: appendages protruding out of everything haha!