菊花台

从拍摄一小盆菊花来看一大片人生

闲来翻看两年前拍摄家中小小一盆菊花照片，想给这一套作品配上生动的音乐。突然想起了《菊花台》。《菊花台》是电影《满城尽带黄金甲》的片尾曲。方文山作词，周杰伦作曲。我特地选童丽的琵琶伴奏版，觉得更加适合照片中那朵朵菊花纤细的花瓣。制作完后，居然发现主题并不是我的照片，而是这首优雅的词，动听的曲... ...

The Laundromat

This is one of the best iPhone 4 short movie I have ever watched.

The Laundromat | Short Film from Timothy Melville on Vimeo.

Goodbye Shanghai 再会上海

Goodbye Shanghai from Blueberry Films on Vimeo.

Astropolis Star Party

Astropolis Star Party is an annual event organized by astropolis.pl, the major amateur astronomy community in Poland, the homeland of Nicolaus Copernicus.

Astropolis Star Party Jodlow 2010 from Patryk Kizny on Vimeo.

Mantis and Butterfly

Predation: Mantis...... and Butterfly from Haw-Youne Lee on Vimeo.

A Parade in Three and a Half Minutes

China's 60th Anniversary national day - timelapse and slow motion - 7D and 5DmkII from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

Ghost

Ghost by Marco Brambilla from ARTJAIL on Vimeo.

Orchid on My Dining Table

Our orchids have synchronized themselves for a couple of months and now ready to pose as blossoming vividly.

So we situated them on our dining table.

The white one went first for its pose.

The pink ones followed in their wide open faces.

The little red ones casted their shadows over the white one.

 

The yellow one made its way in variety of special poses. First shut is its smiley face in dimmer lighting.

Then it showed you not only itself but also its baby sisters yet to blossom soon.

For viewing these photos in larger size, follow this link below:

EggheadLabs on Picasa

The Last Three Minutes

A nice short movie. In one’s life, the best moments may only need three minutes, I mean, to recap.

"The Last 3 Minutes" From Shane Hurlbut, ASC from Shane Hurlbut, ASC on Vimeo.

Tranquil Morning

The Photo Album, Tranquil Morning --- Golden Faces of Centennial Park, has been released at my website EggheadLabs.com.

It was taken while I had a morning walk around Centennial Park, Ellicott City, Maryland.

Besides the above link to a full-size movie, here is the quick preview (Click on PLAY to start the movie).

Due to varying whether in the last week of October, I purposely planned all the sunny days for hiking on Shenandoah National Park, and left this raining day for local activities, such as having a walk in this Park. It turned out a perfect scene for fall foliage unexpectedly. I started wondering whether my original reasoning of such plan had even been required.

For this photography session, I had made tremendous planning, including a serious update of Manfrotto tripod with 488RC2 ball head, as well as a shutter remote.  The morning came unexpectedly rainy and of course quiet just because of the rain. My hands were so busy with shutter button, lens zoom, tripod adjusts, even holding an umbrella (there were still a few rain drops on my lens, which can be seen in some of the photos).

This is a combined trip with quite a lot of hiking activities. Besides photographic equipment, I started paying more serious attention to the pro hiking gears from REI (yes, had got a membership just for that).

Fall Foliage in Beaver’s Bend

The Photo Album, Fall Foliage in Beaver’s Bend, has been released at my website Eggheadlabs.com.

It took me nearly two years to get this album into Flash work since the photos were taken in Beaver’s Bend in 2006.

A Sentimental Lotus (莲的心事)

The photo album, A Sentimental Lotus (莲的心事), has been released at my website EggheadLabs.com.

The Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, has such natural photographic scenes and variety of flowers. It is the lotus, however, amazed me the most and struck my memory of the famous poem by Xi Muring (席慕容 - 莲的心事).

Mist over the West Lake

The Photo Album, Mist over the West Lake, has been just released at my website EggheadLabs.com.

I had enjoyed a couple of trips to Hangzhou, China, during the spring time in 2008. As planned, I did bring my DSLR with me but end up I only took a few shots with average scenes, while competing the shooting opportunities with the crowd tourists who were in front of your camera all the time.

It was in one particular rainy day I’d finally found what I was looking for in QuYuanFengHe (曲院风荷). The reason was simple, the tourist groups were absent due to the rain, which created a great opportunity for me to capture the misty scenes which would have been blocked by the crowd in any normal day. Unfortunately, I suddenly realized that I did not bring my DSLR with me, while only having my Cybershot in my pocket.

Hey, nothing to be complained. I then wasted no time and shot as many as possible. Certain shots did perfectly match the obsessive complex that I have been carried inside of me for decades towards my hometown.

Growing Cucumbers in My Backyard

The yellow flowers, the detailed textures of cucumber skin … …

And there are other scenes like the Jasmines and the lamp in the back yard.

See more with larger size in the following link

Picasa Album: Growing Cucumbers in My Backyard