Snap. Click.

A random, per-chance, look into the sky and I saw this. Does not happen very often that Singapore has a pretty sunset so I thought I would take a picture.

I've always enjoyed taking pictures. I was hopeless with a pencil and a piece of paper for sketching. I was even worse with water colours due to my genetic predisposition to be red-green, blue-purple, all kinds of funky colour-blind types that I never knew even existed. I dabbled, really, I tried. But once my arts teacher gently pulled me aside and asked if I was colour-blind because I painted the coconut tree green, fronds yellow, and the sand brown, I probably knew that deep down, on an instinctive gut feeling level, that I probably won't be heralded as the next Picasso.

So when I got my first phone with a camera function, that probably started me off on my little venture. I snapped heaps of stuff and one of my flash drives still have all the pictures I took from way back when. I had an awesome Sony Ericsson K800i which documented pretty much all of my life during my uni years and took some pretty damn good photos. Yeah, I'm tooting my own horn, whatever.

As phones got smarter and smarter, a good camera was always a feature that I would look for. SE did know their stuff, and their "press halfway to focus" was PERFECT. For some reason, no other phones ever did have that feature. I switched a few phones every now and again and my first foray into the smartphone market was an iPhone 2 (2MP camera, baby!) which took surprisingly clear shots. Then it was HTC's first Desire HD with an unheard of 8MP camera that got me. Crap battery life later but without the lesson learnt, I bought the One X which promised snappy continuous high burst shooting. Got that, worked out for a while but then I stopped documenting life around me. Yeah, I took the occasional picture of food or a sunset but it got boring, y'know?

So after a bit, I decided that if I want to get serious with photography, I gotta get the real thing.

Y'all, meet G.

G is the embodiment of a photographer's spirit in a compact when s/he does not want to carry the bulk that is the esteemed dSLR camera but does not want to sacrifice speed, picture quality and manual control. Hence, we get the hybrid. Best of both worlds? I think so.

I'm hoping to be playing around with it and hopefully, take some pictures and get this blog a bit more lively. Or maybe I should do a half Project 365.

Thoughts?