8/10.. Not bad

As I walked through the city hall today, I found 8 out of the 10 photos I have submitted for the photo banner contest are being displayed as the top 100 "finalists".
After browsing through the rest of the competition, I'm the person with most entries being selected. That's a good sign I hope =), it's quite a sight to see all the photos lined up with my names under there HA!

The winners (8-10 photos will be selected) of the contest will have their artwork displayed in banner form on the streets of the city for a year! I think I have a almost 1/10 of the chance of being selected as probability goes =)

Here are the photos that made it

Serenity

From Beautiful Richmond

Yearning

From Beautiful Richmond

Peace and Nature

From Beautiful Richmond

Dance of Shadows

From Beautiful Richmond

Limitless Revolution

From Beautiful Richmond

Rails to Light

From Beautiful Richmond

Cold Dusk

From Beautiful Richmond

Solitude

From Beautiful Richmond

My first accredited role

So here I was, sitting in the center of front of the row seating, mounted my 40D on the tripod and lenses on my seat ready to be changed. I felt excited and slightly uneasy as hundreds of intriguing eyes staring at my back. Closing my eyes, I sat there waiting for the opening of the dance performance...

That is how I started my first accredited role as photographer. It is always intriguing how things turn out the way you least expected. The director of the academy originally thought I was just a student learning the way of photography and asked me to buy the ticket in order to get in. Due to some misunderstanding, I ended deciding not to go. But things sure turns around 1 day before the event, I became accredited and was appointed in the front most seat.

Lead instructor Yang Yang

From Cindy Yang Dance Academy - The Soul of Dance 2008

I suppose because of my interests in shape and lines within my composition, I felt rather at ease in capturing an event such as this. With manual setting, ISO 1600, I blasted away and end up with full 16gb of photos.

The photos was processed and delivered on Saturday two days ago.. the lead instructor and two of the main dancers were there to see the photos. They loved them! Seeing one of the girl jumping around and keep wanting the photos made me felt great about what I produced.

Moon on Water

From Cindy Yang Dance Academy - The Soul of Dance 2008

There is a beautiful place

From Cindy Yang Dance Academy - The Soul of Dance 2008

Harmony

From Cindy Yang Dance Academy - The Soul of Dance 2008

Dance of Peacock

From Cindy Yang Dance Academy - The Soul of Dance 2008

A Li Lan

From Cindy Yang Dance Academy - The Soul of Dance 2008