photography fundamental - to click or not to click

Last two weeks after touching my camera for awhile.. seems to get the chance to shoot again in Cameron Highland. It was a nice moment and am happy that I was able to shoot a few shots of bees busying with flowers.. its just a 90mm macro lens. wish i have the 180mm and the macro ring flash. that could be fantabulous.

A few years ago, I saw a family who are nikonian with damn gorgeous pure macro lens and stylo ring flash.. the three daughters each have their own sets of nikon and macro lens cun ring flash. I wonder that makes this family out of it... so devoted to nature macro life!! So authentic to the max!!

Well.. too bad I had sold couple of my beloveth lens.. anyway.. someday in the near future when the price is dropping and when my body decide to quit running and cycling.. and blah blah.. perhaps when I have decent exposure of cash.. I will get some nice decents set to play again.

But still I have some stuff that I can take decent pictures with.

So I was browsing through some pics and especially Steve McCurry with updated pics on his website..man. that guy has such intinct for photography that literally want u to soak up and ask what next after this pictures..

That is real sense of photography.. it makes u wonder..

One of of biggest ambition when I was small was to become a war photographer. That ambitions linger quite a long time become war helicopter pilot second or or commercial helicopter pilot also can lah.. black hawk down..

I think war photographer is a noble task. A picture tell a thousand words.

Anyway, that dream didnt materialise but else I will somewhere six feet under in Kandahar, Tel Aviv, kurdish swarm or had my neck slice in youtube with our ski mask frens shouting Allah is Great.. WOw.. its has gone too vivid.

Again, I dont hesitate to shoot any pictures despise some think it is against conscience.

I am not saying being caught cheater or double time kind of situations. Those are pre-selective motive in shooting.

I am saying shoot as it is....

Come to think of it the framework and how we feed our thought and structure it can be seen through photography lessons.

Incident 1, I can't remember what it was already.. but my friend keep on saying dont shoot..dont shoot.. I was rather surprise as how damn sensitive he is about that situation... so to me he is so protective over himself and could never expand out of the horizon. This people will never understand speeding at 220km/h in a long freeway that say 60km/h which makes no sense.

Incident 2, This was at the waiting harbour in Manly, North of Sydney, where I was trying to photograph two old ladies that were supporting each others.. One was a bit fragile and old which need a hand from the other lady partner..

Surprisingly, my boss suddenly asked me not to shoot.. I am really curious... then he said people will feel inferiority complex. Wow!! I was taken aback.. you see how perception and our conceptual thought influence how we process our thought about a given situation. We are after all a perception from the windows of our world which immediately is the line of sight - our eyes.

Do I regret not capture that pics? Yes, I am.. I think that will be the most beautiful pictures I had even capture.. probably it will meant a very good friendship photo in my collection.

So you could see how such culture itself especially my boss was so stinct by his own ego.. go own to blind his sight..

What do u want to do with ur photos?

5 to 10 years from now.. do u think this pics mean something to u?

Lets not get too carried away. I am a advocacy.. that shoot what u want and what u needed to..you will never regrets it.. after all in a digital world, you can always delete it...