the incubus pics

here are the final set of pictures from the sunburst music festival. but before i go into the pictures of incubus, i'll post some of the leftover pictures that i missed out.


here is one of incognito.

next up i have a picture of john legend. it isn't really a good picture, because i wasn't really interested in his music. i think its more for the girls. anyway, here is quite a gay picture of him dancing with some 'not so attractive' chick.

alright, so here are the long awaited pictures of the incubus bands. a few ppl have been bugging me to post these up, especially this girl who keeps coming up to me asking "where is the brandon boyd?!"

so here goes!

this is one of the first shots of em that i got.

this is one for the brandon boyd fans, taken at the press conference.

i kinda like this one. had to do some editing to remove those darn red hairband horns that ppl were waving in the air.



here is a new version of one of the boyd pics that i posted up a while back. and now the pics will not be centered cause im really bad at HTML and i cant seem to put it so. plus it takes so long to upload the pic onto blogger. so im just grabbin it off flickr.



here is another one with a wide view of the stage.



more boyd pics.



marxha says that the guitar doesn't suit him...



another reedited new version of a previously posted picture. i like the shadows on this one. but i feel that the screen killed the picture.



another "light shining on the guitarist" picture.



another new version of a previously uploaded picture. note, the really irritating red horn head bands.



a "spotlight on the vocalist" picture



this was one of those photos that looked really good on the camera LCD, but when i uploaded it onto the computer, i was extremely disappointed. there were ppl's hands sticking out from the crowd and stuff. looks like i need to buy a ladder for taking shots in concerts.



this one is alittle blurry. had to crop the picture to get a tight composition. yet again this picture was also plagued with the hands waving in the air and sorts.



this was one of incubus' last songs. aqueous transmission if i'm not mistaken.



more boyd...



i think i posted this up in my previous post too.

looks like thats all.

gotta go meet the marxha for climbing now, and im late...

oh btw, camp5 has a slack line now. only set up on some days :D

just a post

im currently testing this new windows sidebar gadget that i downloaded a few days ago. its quite cool actually. i am able to blog without opening a browser.

so i wonder.... will this gadget enable to make more frequent blog entries?

oh well, we'll have to wait and see.

its dinner time!

Sunburst Music Festival

finally i've forced myself to post some pictures from the sunburst music festival.

it took a while because i was lazy to post up the pictures. but after that i realised that i needed to edit the pictures alittle, so now with a newly reformated PC, a nice bunch of newly bought ram, and a few new photo editing programs (which i have yet to learn how to use), the photos are finally ready!

so i was mostly playing around with lightroom, hence the wierd effects on most of the photos. but some of them are mostly unedited as i was too lazy and the pictures didn't look so bad straight out of the camera.

all of the pictures were taken with my olympus ZD 70-300 f4-5.6

it was raining, and i only had the option of bringing one lens, so i decided on the tele lens. good thing i took the tele instead of the ZD 14-54 f2.8-3.4 or i wouldn't have been able to get the close ups. i didnt have a press pass, so i was basicly sneaking around the place and most of the time im qutie far away from the action. so im happy i took a tele :D

anyway, here goes!

here is one of one buck short.

for those of you that were there, you probably would have seen the bassists guitar flying across the stage. here is a picture i got a second before that happened.

and for those of you who wasn't there, i bet you can put the pieces together.

so what does a bassist without a guitar do?

he jumps around the stage and goes crowd surfing, or at least he tried to.

next up is tempered mental.

don't ask me why i didn't get pictures of the other band members. cause i have no idea why they are all missing from the frame.

next up would be most of the interenational bands. i was at the festival alittle late, therefore i missed out on most of the local gigs. plus it rained when i got there, so running around in the rain with a camera wouldn't really be so much fun.

here is some of the roots

i kinda like the mono tone ones. i feel like it gives a nice effect to concerts. i especially like the one above. the colour gives it a nice mood.

next is a "sort of" local artise, Che nelle.

only have one photo of her. i can't remember which band was playing at the same time as her, so i decided to watch the other band instead... :P

next up is Incognito! it was the first time i heard their music, and i must say, it was excelent! sadly i wasn't able to enjoy much of their music as i had to run off for incubus' press confrence. ARGH!!

ok, i think ive posted way to many pictures. blogger is starting to go haywire on me. more of incubus on the next post.

schools out!

finally im done with my exams. so all i have to look forward to is my holidays!

besides that holidays, my computer is long over due to be reformatted. something screwie with the software, and im to lazy to find out that, so im just going to reformat it.

as for the holidays, its about half a month of being in kl doing what ever (more climbing i hope). and after i'm off to kuching for half a month (hopefully i can do some climbing there), and lastly back in kl for another half a month before my next semester begins.

i hope its going to be an exciting holiday. well maybe not. firstly i need sleep desperately.

off i go to bed then.

this post is also my 100th post! whee!! celebrations and balloons and party streamers and stuff.

4 minus 2 equals 2

yeah!! 2 down and 2 more to go!

exams are almost over, and the holidays are creeping ever closer...

here is a picture of my new desktop wallpaper. took it in bukit melawati a few months back.

and the prices go up

now look, the petrol prices has just recently gone up by 78 freggin cents!!!

what does that mean?

well it means that we now pay a whooping two ringgit and seventy cents for one freggin litre of pertol. thats about a forty percent increase in price of petrol.

what has the world come to.

now i have to think twice before i even think of driving anywhere.

damn government....

i miss the old prices of one ringgit and ninety two cents per liter.

lightning!

last week end i was at PD. stayed at this resort called avillion.or something like that. cant really remember the exact spelling.



anyway, the hotel and all was a really nice place. they had challets over the sea and the place was just spectacular. my whole family was there including uncles, aunties, cousins and some friends to celebrate my sisters 21st birthday!



so my family got the vila, and it was absolutly cooL!! it had 2 balconies, 2 bed rooms, 2 toilets and one of it had an open air shower, 2 beds that werealmost boxed in by windows and some other stuff which i cant remember. it was absolutly cool!


anyway enough about the hotel, on the last night, i decided to take some photos of star trails, but sadly my cameras settings didnt allow me to. for those of you who are fimiliar with camera stuff you can read on, those of you who arent, can skip to the next paragraph. so my camera's bulb mode only allowed me to go for a maximum of 8 minutes of exposure. and i needed at least 30 minutes of exposure in order to get some nice light trails. so this was the closest i managed to get.






so it might not look so obvious, but you can actually see the stars in the picture above. damn lightning got in the way too.

then i next got this picture. then only i realized that tehre was a storm coming up, and decided to shift my attention to the storm. the storm was starting brewing out at sea. probably about 5-10 kilometers offshore. i got some really nice pictures. here goes.

i personally like the second lightning one the most. taking these photos wasnt easy. it was extreamly dark, so the only time i could see what i was taking was when the lightning struck. therefore it took a while for me to adjust the focus. i used the bulb mode again, and just waited for some nice lightning shots to strike then i stoped the exposure. so good thing it was really dark, if not i would have to keep shooting hoping i get lucking catching a lightning.

ok i think thats it.