La Jugada que nos gano el mundial, tal como lo comentan el rtve 1.

” Y en el minuto 126 llegaria el tanto de Iniesta el 0-1. La pelota, la jugada que comienza a las botas de Fernando Torres, Ese es Fabregas quien la recibe la frontal, La pega iniesta tras el bote, no llega Van Der Vart y Gooool!”

Y en ese momento Espana exploto como jamas ha hecho antes.

And in that moment, the moment Iniesta Scored the 0-1 Spain exploded in celebration like it never has before…

Next time, the Final World Cup Post. The Spanish Celebrations
Proximamente, El ultimo Post del Mundial De Espana, Las Celebraciones!

I know world cup fever is dying down quickly, but with everything going on I haven’t been able to process my images fast enough xD. Fact is I’m still working on them! Hopefully I’ll be able to get the rest of the images up little by little over the comming week. But in the meantime here are the pictures pre-game.

On the day of the final tension was at an all time high! Spain had made it to its very first world cup final. Its been a long time comming. After a slight tumble at the start of the tournament the European champions were poised to make history chasing that star above our crest we will forever wear proudly.

However first we  had to win. Below is a picture of some fans “preparing for battle” wearing the colours of Spain. Red and Yellow.

It was such a delight to go about the city seeing everyone united & expectant of the upcomming match. Something wonderful to anticipate and celebrate in these trying times.

People even dressed up their pets to join in the celebrations. I can certainly see, “La Furia Roja” eminating from this little puppy

And of course the craze of “el pulpo” was certainly visible everywhere. Its become a sort of Idol or God in the country! Spain’s new mascot & lucky charm!

As match time drew closer my brother and I made our way to the cinema where we decided to watch the match (Originally we were going to watch it in a big screen at the mall, but upon the realisation that there would be no commentary we quickly ditched the Idea. And so we entered the hall expectant, excited, and ecstatic of what was to come. Spains First World Cup Final.

Comming Up: The Winning Moment

Well I’m back from the holidays, normally I’d have liked to have posted whilst I was away, but as you may have heard…I’m getting married! So my trips were a little more full than I’m used to >.<. But fear not, that didnt stop me from doing some shooting . Got lots comming up (I’m still catching up from February.

Now that I’m back though Hopefully I can get back on the roll and plough thru this backlog!

So, as you may have heard I recently got engaged (Yay), which was quite a shock to some people. However a lot of the proceedings actually occurred in Febuary when I came down to London to visit my now fiance (sorry If i couldnt tell a lot of you but things were quite in the air when I had left for the UK). However setting that aside I of course did my utmost to not miss an oportunity to shoot in my favorite city in the world!

On one of the days my family was in town, and we went to look at UCL for my brother, and we ended up back at a lovely cake shop, called Pattisserie Valerie near our hotel, where I took the pictures below.

Delicious isnt it?

Hey Y’all! The World Cup is under way! , who are you rooting for? Well it doesnt matter, we all know spain is taking home the cup, TODOS CON LA ROJA!!! , expect to see some Football/World Cup themed shots comming soon (as soon as I get my camera & flash back! xD), but in the meantime here is the remainder of the Hong Kong pics from my rush-about-before-catching-the-flight tour lol.

Well Lots to get thru today! Got a tonne of news and a few pictures for perusal hehe.

Firstly, the personal news. Incase you havent heard! Which I’m sure most of you have by now, I’m engaged! to one of the most wonderful people I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. We do have pictures of the engagement, but as they werent taken by me (pains of being an engagee is that you cant run around and shoot yourself unless you’ve got very long arms or a walking tripod) they will be going up on a seperate site I’m designing just for us. www.ssquared.org so keep an eye on it (both our names start with an S so I thought it fitting)

Second! Gadget News! I’ve been oh so fortunate to get my hands on a spankin new Ipad for my birthday and I finally treated myself and picked up the Nikon DX 17-55 f 2.8 lens! (YAY) its g g g g g g GORGEOUS! Love that sharpness and quickfire focus! Pictures & reviews of these babies comming soon!

Thirdly. Travel Woes. OH WOE IS ME! after my  engagement last week and arriving late to the airport I was left without time to work my airline subterfuge magic and was forced to leave my carry on trolley behind with family along with all my camera gear :’(, so that will be comming with my parents next week, but till then no new pics….well not to worry,  I’ve got enough backlog to keep me occupied till then hehe. But its really killing me that I cant do my weeklies .

and finally the photographic post…PHEW!

And so we approach the final two posts on my previous trip to Hong Kong (Yay!). How are you all liking the new site? Comments?

The following pictures were taken during my last day rush as I climbed up thru the sunroof on my uncles van and shot what I could with the limited time available. I made sure to get some nice landscapes in addition to a couple of nice close ups. I only wish I’d had my new lens

The fog actually killed this Image! I was thankfully able to do some restoration magic thanks to Scott Kelby’s magical 7 steps! (I need to watch the CS5 version on kelby training!)

A nifty little castle I saw on my way down the mountain

The Hong Kong Sikh Temple

Hey Everyone! Dont worry you havent come to the wrong site! I’ve at long last made the Jump to hyperspace! WordPress! What do you think of the new design! Its not final, but chances are I’m going to stick with it. Its not 100% complete (still working out some kinks). I’ve managed to import all my old posts (YAY!) but unfortunately the tags got messed up and converted to categories, which means some cleanup (sheesh!), and that about & HUD pages need to go Live, aswell as sorting out some minor CSS issues to make it pretty. But otherwise its perfectly useable! And I can proudly say built from the ground up with my own 25 10 fingers!

P.S. Those of you using RSS Feeders and other downloading doo-hickies may need to re-save the page incase its still reading from the old blogspot location. As you can see I’ve added the RSS logo on my sidebar, fully equipped thanks to feedburner! Hope Y’all keep reading!

So, I’ve decided I’m going to try to do the Digital Photography School weekend challenges, since obviously doing a 365 project is just too taxing atm . Which is a pity because I’d really love to be able to. I was inspired by stormtrooper 365 to do something with toys daily but I just dont have the time, so I’m sticking to weekends now. That and Photochallenge.org’s monthly- week by week challenges are all I can do now on a day to day basis I think.

Anywais Enjoy the final image of the weekend challegne: Shadows!

The Idea was to have shadows involved in the image. Of course something easy, everything makes shadows. But the trick was to make them an important or creative part of the image. I really like how the clone trooper is backlit, but there is enough light seeping in so you can tell what it is (i hope). I’m looking to buy more toys so hopefully those should lead to some interesting pics . In the meantime Enjoy!

This image was processed entirely in lightroom. I didnt have time to bring it into photoshop, but I think I will try to do so from now onwards, at least for my fave pics, I’ve noticed I’m still not particularly happy with lightroom sharpening over unsharp mask…or maybe I just dont know how to use it, but I find photoshop holds back grain much better….anyone concur?

So here is a continuation of my series of Images from Hong Kong. I do apologise for last weeks dissapearance due to technical dificulties (aka rats arsed internet connection), so without further ado…

Thus my time in HK approached a quick and unwitted end, and much to my dissapointment my camera had spent far too little time sitting around unused. I was determined not to leave the city without getting a few pictures! So on the morning of my departure I strapped myself to the roof of a moving vehicle (actually  I just popped my head over the sunroof, and shot like a madman. Of course I made some stops too, as fortunately y flight wasnt till later that evening. And so here are my results after a frantic run-around HK.

A lot of the pictures are some I wanted to do at night, but due to time restraints I was unable too….but Deff somehting I plan to fix on my previous trip.

I also realised I’ve been getting VERY sloppy lately with my post-processing, resulting in minimal if not nil  image adjustment resulting in my images not being all they could be. So although it will slow down my uploads, I have decided to take a step back and get back to properly post processing my images. Well thats enough rambling from me! Enjoy!

As you can see a lot of these were taken up high, where my aunt and uncle live giving me awesome views of the city. My next trip over these will be night shots as the city really lights up at night!

A few weeks ago was my little baby bro’s 18th birthday. And boy did he get a birthday, trip to HK, friends party, and family party. And of course like any birthday, cake was involved! And boy what a cake! I think I’ll let the Images speak for themselves. And of course being the strobist afficionado that I am, I lit the bajeebers our of everything . I think my family are still recovering from spotty eyes. I’ll let you all know how that goes .