wynlimi like taking street photography. here’s a photo from a recent trip to johor bahru, malaysia. i have a particular fascination with hawkers:
an open-air restaurant famous for their bak kut teh (pork rib soup) and steamed fish. the thing about travelling: it gifts you an experience that is extraordinary to you, but probably mundane to locals. being able to have my sense provoked was such a treat. to think another world exists just an hour away from home.
📍kedai bak kut teh hin hock, johor bahru, malaysia
making sunny side ups and buttered toasts for kacang pool
📍restoran kacang pool haji, johor bahru, malaysia
reading newspapers
(is it worth taking the camera out for the day just to take one photo?)
📍chinatown, singapore
what makes a photo worth capturing? i don’t know. i just take them when my eyes naturally follow a subject for a while. saw them walking along the coast, and the older lady was picking things up from the beach. what was she picking? so many stories we could possibly tell from one picture.
📍changi beach, singapore
obligatory chinatown shot at bangkok. am not really good at taking photos at night or editing it properly so here’s an attempt:
I always feel like a thief as a street photographer, stealing someone’s moment.
📍bangkok, thailand
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it was posing for me (i seem to like taking super wide photos of both humans and animals)
📍warehouse 30, bangkok, thailand
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paying.
(the iphone is actually great for street photography because it is so readily in our hands and it is so quick to take a picture…sometimes moments can’t wait for a camera. i just wish it is a little less harsh?)
📍heng chun seng, bangkok, thailand
apparently the best pad kra pow in bangkok, cooked by only one uncle. (this is one of those times i took photos with both the camera and the phone, and it was the phone that captured the moment.)
📍 ung jia huad, bangkok, thailand
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this has apparently been simmering non-stop for 50 years
📍wattana panich, bangkok, thailand
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📍chatuchak, bangkok, thailand
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thought this building was somewhat beautiful. I could probably do better with the framing, but sometimes I think being short is a disadvantage
$1.50 ice cream sandwich
(the act of posting a photo requires more than one may think)
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📍chinatown, singapore
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DJChris@wynlim you know what they say. The best camera is the one you have with you.
ankur sethi is alive and well@wynlim this is such a cozy picture!
@s3thi thank you, wouldn’t think of the word “cozy” to describe it myself, it is so cool to have different interpretations!
Jeremy Foo@wynlim shoot RAW? gotta say every year's iPhone has me postponing the desire to get a DSLR by another year.
@echoz there is a indescribable joy that comes with an actual camera though. maybe just having tactile feedback, a viewfinder, being able to switch lenses, being able to shoot film-like qualities, the interpretation of light by companies with a rich film history (ricoh/fujifilm)…
@wynlim don't disagree, but now I think I value the fact I can carry my phone anywhere, and it starts up in an instance so I can start taking photos.
that and also the fact that phones record more contextual metadata of the photo taking itself like geo location, etc.
haven't seen any camera that comes close