A Time for Evaluation

Things have come to a grinding slow pace with projects & travels halted. The practice of social distancing took a toll on the number of places I can visit to shoot. A friend of mine said that we should always try to approach a bad situation positively. This is the time to review and plan […]

Me & Botanical Portraits

My journey in botanical photography is coming to a decade, and there were many ups and downs. I enjoy finding strange and amazing plants to capture their beauty in my interpretation. I met a lot of amazing people who were willing to share their knowledge and show me plants that few in this world would […]

Botanical Portraiture using the Sigma 70mm F2.8 DG Marco Art

When the Sigma 70mm F2.8 DG Macro Art was announced, I had mixed feelings. I was used to the focal length of 90mm and 150mm for macro photography shoots. This new Sigma lens sits in the mid-tele range and I wonder how it will affect my images in terms of composition. Recently, Sigma India loaned me […]

Botanical Portraiture – June 2017

Back in Singapore, I had some time to visit and capture some amazing beautiful flowers that was in bloom at Gardens by the Bay. Currently there is a “Blue Beauties” flora display going on, but I was there for the real rare beauties hidden among the array of plants inside the two conservatories. The gears […]

Challenge Accepted (Part One)

To excel in Photography is to Work within Constraints and Think Out of Box. This blog talks about how the writer was challenged to create botanical portraiture without his professional equipment. Part one talks about him using a point and shoot camera. Back in Jan 2013, my wife and I were watching DigitalRev TV Cheap Camera Challenge on Youtube. […]

Creating the Midnight Show

This blog talks about the conceptualization & visualization to which this botanical portraiture was taken. How the writer started preparing the plant for this shot and the equipment used. Epiphyllum pumilum is a cactus species native to Mexico and Guatemala. This species is commonly grown as an ornamental plant for its beautiful and fragrant flowers. In […]