his majesty's 62nd birthday

The Sultan of Brunei, His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, has recently celebrated his 62nd birthday on July 15th, 2008. This post shows some of the sights to be seen on that day; and in the coming days I'll post up more photos from other events held to mark this year's birthday celebration.

In other news, sorry for not updating in a while. Admittedly, I've been slightly lazy at processing the pics from my Umrah trip, so they're not done yet. But the Sultan's birthday celebration pics seem to have kick started my motivation again (or risk being drowned in a sea of unprocessed photos).

EDIT: Forgot to mention there are exactly 40 pics in this slideshow.. so if your connection is slow, it might take a while to go through all of them. Enjoy!

sunday bandar outing

Last Sunday, I went on an outing at Bandar Seri Begawan with the guys and girls from the BruneiForever Forum. It was actually a 50mm challenge, meaning that all shots need to be taken strictly at the 50mm focal length, using a prime lens preferably or a zoom lens as a substitute. I, for one, couldn't participate in the challenge itself - if you've been following my blog, you'll know that my 24-70mm is still MIA.

Ah well, I just joined in for the fun anyway and it was nice to finally meet some of the BFF members. Plus I really need to work on my street photography skills. To be honest, I'm not particularly satisfied with all the shots I took that day but not showing any result at all would just be sad. Hehe. So here's my meagre offering from that day. Enjoy! (or not...)

bright

A particularly bright morning's sunlight reflecting off of the side of a lamp post at Serasa beach.

A few more photos from my walkabout at Serasa beach that day to come soon. Well as soon as I can get off my arse and do some post-processing anyway. I'm starting off with something simple and minimalistic first.

cycling

Just a photo of a man cycling along the shore of Muara beach. I like this photo because of its minimalist nature. I don't like it because I accidentally cut off the head of the man's reflection on the wet sand. Oh well.

national day - main event

I went and shot some pics at this year's National Day event in the capital which took place on February 23rd. Enjoy! Comments are welcome, as usual.

national day rehearsal and bandar walkabout

sengkurong walkabout

So I went on a walk around the Sengkurong commercial area this morning. Yeah, it's the same morning I took the picture of the cat from the previous post. Just thought I'd include the rest of them. There are six of them for this series.

Mind the loading time. Or if it doesn't load at all, do tell but I probably won't be able to do anything much to fix it. As a matter of fact, if it works fine, tell me too so I know I can use it again in the future.

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