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Blessed child

Tiny hands, beautiful eyes, our blessed child rides on innocently, laughing and giggling as she grows, bringing us joy despite our daily woes indefinitely, have fun growing up my lovely girl, in Jesus name in this wonderful world. Ezekiel Kok, 2021 Hasselblad 500cm, 80mm, Shanghai Gp3 400

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My wife, my pillar, my Wonder Woman

I just found out that my wife used to catch dragonflies by their wings and that was kinda like her childhood. Never in a million years have I ever dreamed I’d ever do that. Yes, I did catch fighting spiders with my siblings and we did swim and play in streams when we were young, but catching dragonflies, now that’s a whole new level altogether! She’s indeed my pillar and my Wonder Woman! I’m so…

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Blown away by the CCD colors of Leica M9

Blowing bubbles Let’s take a minute or so to enjoy the beautiful colours of the above image. Done? Great! I never thought it would this beautiful to be honest. I did invest quite a bit into the M9 and at the back of my mind I was telling myself that I might have regretted doing so. However, my mind changed when I used it more and more. This image is just one of the many that I had taken. I’ve…

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Visiting Nature

My son was given a project. To watch otters in their habitat. I’ve seen them around the Marina Bay Area but that was a long time ago. A great buddy offered to bring us around Pasir Ris park as he saw them quite often in that area. That was the beginning of our hunt for otters (no we aren’t gonna eat them, just capture them)- using my camera of course! Sadly, this time round we didn’t get to see…

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Calling home

M9, 7ARTISANS 35mm As COVID-19 robs us all of our freedom, many lives are affected here in Singapore. I have many friends who are unable to go home to their families and resign from their jobs just so that they could go home. It’s sad when you work along side great friends and they have to leave. It’s not because they were asked to leave due to poor attitude or anything like that. It’s sad…

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Improving our neighbourhood

Thank you to all the workers who helped to improve our neighbourhood. Singapore is a better place with your hard work. Installing bicycle lots under a void deck in Yishun, Singapore

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Wordless Monday Always here for you my love Singapore | Fujifilm XT1 | Leica Elmar 90mm f4 © Copyright 2020 Ezekiel Kok Photography All Right Reserved

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The Shopper Singapore | Fujifilm XT1 | Leica Elmar 90mm f4 © Copyright 2020 Ezekiel Kok Photography All Right Reserved

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Leica 50mm F2 Summicron

I was never a believer of Leica the brand, nor it’s products. I used to tell myself that I could capture images without it and it would still be stunning. Why would I need a leica camera or lens? It was until my wife bought me the leica 50mm f2 version 4 that flipped on the switch. Honestly, I am blown away by this little black beauty. The original intention was to have it go along with my leica…

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Comparing Fuji X100F & Ricoh GR3

Thanks to my good friend, Alan who allowed me to try his Fujifilm X100F, I could do a mini comparison between his camera and my Ricoh GR iii. The X100F is a lovely camera and I must say that it’s super quiet when you snap a shot, so much so that I had to check if it was really captured. Here are my findings:

1) Size & weight:

Right off the bat, the GR3 wins in terms of size and weight. No…

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Experimenting with a modified A12 hasselblad back

A friend of mine Louis recently posted some pictures of what seemed like a Xpan. When asked, he shared that he modified his A12 back to get similar results. That got me interested. Instead of forking out a hefty sum to buy a Xpan camera, why not make use of my 500cm?

Thanks to Louis for modding the back and sending it to me, I managed to run a test roll of this beauty. Note that unlike the…

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Embracing light and shadows

I used to fear light. It’s a funny statement because in photography, you definitely need light in order to capture an image. Okay, I guess it’s more towards over exposure and the heat of the humid sun in Singapore that I shun away from instead. I used to like my images nice and bright. If it was too dark, then it would be deemed a failed shot.

It was when I came across a few photographers…

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Darkroom print exchange

In efforts to encourage myself to print more in the darkroom, I’ve participated an upcoming exchange meet up. Rules are simple:

1) print 5×7 or 8×10

2) print 6 prints

3) open theme

4) Rc or fb paper

This would be my first time joining and I’m excited to see what I will be receiving from the other 5 individuals.

I feel it’s an indirect way of improving oneself to become a better all rounded…

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Darkroom printing

As many would have known by now, I have dived into the deep end of a beautiful journey of film photography. Having capturing images from all walks to life and onto negatives processed, now I move into the final stage of this process: dark room printing.

Seems like a simple process but it takes a lot of effort and practice to come up with a well exposed and well toned final image. You have to…

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The bridge

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Happy 53rd National Day Singapore!

Happy 53rd National Day Singapore!

I am thankful and grateful for the peace we enjoy here. Today was a great day of rest and spending time with my family. Also spent some time hunting for our new pets!

Happy 53rd National Day Singapore!

May God bless the years to come with happiness, progress and prosperity to all of us!

Enjoy!

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Beautiful Sunday

It was an honor to meet a professional film photographer who was passionate about film and listening to him share about his story and the way things were during at pinnacle of his time was indeed precious to me. Thank you Paul for your time spent with me. I hope to learn more from you in the days to come.

Met up with Kim and the rest of the pano outing friends at esplanade and sat down for a…