Rapturous! Inspirational & Interesting Photography

TV at local pasta place, originally uploaded by ozlady.

Killing 2 birds with one stone here – this is a television used to advertise the local pasta place near my home. Photo taken and edited completely on my Nokia N86 8MP for both the 2009 Photo Challenge and the November Challenge 2009!

Busy day, so sometimes you have to take the shots where you can find them!

Broom [Photo Challenge, Day 306: Clean], originally uploaded by ozlady.

Brooms in Singapore tend to be a little bit different. This one is for indoors, and despite its rough appearance, it’s actually quite soft.

Taken at night in the bathroom and the cat kept trying to eat the broom.

Pillows [November Challenge Day 2], originally uploaded by ozlady.

Pillows on the bed – changed the sheets and now need to change the pillowcases.

Trying out the night photo capabilities of my camera phone. Not too bad.

This month’s challenge is to take photos with our camera phones – with no editing off the phone. Some of my challenge counterparts who have an iPhone will probably have the advantage on me with photo editing capability, but I think my Nokia N86 takes some pretty neat snaps.

The lock at my MIL’s place.  Taken with my Nokia N86 8MP. I was seeing what I could do with the present scene settings and DoF.

Our furniture gets plenty scarred after our cats get at it. For the most part they are pretty good, and considering there are three of them, it’s not too bad… but still, some battle scars are showing after 10 years.

Cats – 3, Furniture – nil.

We had this word for two days, so there are two photos to go with this…

LED - Traffic Light

This one was taken with my camera phone while waiting for our dinner order.

LED - Sign at the local PRATA shop

Box made from Blu-Tack

I fiddle with blu-tac in the office all the time. Today I made a box out of it. One of my colleagues calls it “plasticine for adults” LOL

Remain Seated

I waited almost too late to get this shot – it was a busy day, but then while upgrading the firmware on my phone, my computer crashed and I had to reinstall everything – this took a little while so I went outside my office to take this shot… one that I have been meaning to take for ages as the chair matches the flooring in the space outside. Unfortunately it was about 30 mins before the sun set and it took 3-4 shots before I got the light the way I wanted.

Hello Kitty for the Little Gambler in you!

My challenge photo for day 294 came as a result of waiting on the side of the road for my husband to pick me up – I saw this in one of those cutesy shops with all sorts of girlie-girlie knick-knacks for sale. Not my cup of tea, but I had to take this shot when I saw the Hello Kitty Mahjong set and gambling chips. LOL.

Oh boy have I been busy… and unfortunately my contributions to the 2009 Photo challenge were non-existent for 6 months. Massive let down, but I’m back on it!

Also I’m quite excited about the upcoming November Photo Challenge – using only Camera Phones! The rules are quite good, and I think there are some really cool shots to be taken with camera phones – different limitations and different freedoms as well.