Andy Yip Photography

Added photos of an insect taken in my backyard. I have totally no idea what it is. It looks like a caterpillar but i have never seen one that carry something on its back. Do you know what is it? It is around 5-7mm long if that helps.

You don’t get much chance to take photo of Guy Sebastian, and even doing it for FREE. I happened to be lucky enough to get such an opportunity. There you go our first Australian Idol.

In the middle of the concert is a very small riot. A group of people aren’t happy about people celebrating Australian Day with Brisbane Flood just happened a week ago. I can totally understand why. It is so sad to see on the news and hear from people who lost their loved one, lost everything as their properties were inundated. But what can people do? Sad things happen everyday around the world. Should the whole society stop whenever a tragedy happened?

Thanks to Leo and William, i have the chance to witness the transition of a butterfly’s life, from a pupa to a beautiful butterfly. Although i missed the opportunities to see the butterfly coming out from its pupa, it is still special checking it out every night to see if it will be coming out the next morning. It is even more exciting seeing a butterfly instead of a pupa when you get up.

Some spider photos are added to my insect gallery

More insect photos can be found following the link below

Insect Portfolio

Added some photos to the Panorama portfolio

More Panorama photos can be viewed at the link below

Panorama Album

We went there for the release simply thought it is something special as we have never watch a dam release before. But never have we thought we would have witnessed what contributed to the flooding in Brisbane. The flood report didn’t conclude Wivenhoe Dam release is not the cause of the Brisbane Flood 2011, but i personally believe Brisbane won’t be flooded if:

1) Our dam level isn’t always need to be kept over 100%

2) Our dam was released earlier but not when it’s nearly at a critical level

3) Our dam was released more frequently with a smaller amount each time.

4) Our dam was not release on heavy rainy day.

The condition of surrounding suburbs are heavily affected by the dam release. All the rivers in Mt Nebo National Park are all filled up with water from the dam release. Some part of Fernvale was flooded.

The photo taken during this trip, after processing are no longer in a documentary type. It was processed to add more mood to the photos and have them present in an artistic way. However, the degree on the flood has not been manipulated. What you see was what happened there.

In conclusion, it indicated a problem when Brisbane flooded at a bright sunny day.

Added some photos taken from Mt Nebo National Park and also some more photos of Lake Wivenhoe.

Also updated are some photos of Lake Wivenhoe.

More landscape photos with better quality can be found following the link below

Australia Landscape

Unlike most wedding nowadays, the wedding of Sonia and Alfred is entirely organised by themselves and their family. It is a pleasure for me and my partner Lou to be the photographers of this wonderful wedding.

Winter Festival is probably the only time to ice skate outside Brisbane City Hall. Unfortunately, ice skating is never one of my favourites and i am just happy to be outside photographing.

While thinking the ordinary skating photos are too common, i notice the round light from the festival actually made the scratch on the ice quite interesting. Under exposed a couple of photo with increased contrast and a bit of processing made the photos below.

Another attraction of the Winter Festival is the ice skating show. A perfect chance to practice. Trying not to use a very fast shutter with everything frozen, and keeping the shutter speed low with some blurred motion but a face that’s sharp enough is totally not easy. Didn’t try any pan shot though is a pity. By the time i was about to do pan shoot the show had already ended…