For a long time I have been meaning to update our website and add some new photos to show the work we have done over the past year. Well I still have to get around to that, but in the meantime I thought it easier to just make a gallery with some of this recent work. So here it is White Box Photography Limited a selection of work from 2007. These images are all a collaboration effort, both Ike and I shot em…

White Box Photography Recent work.

Just working a wedding and the client didn’t arrange dinner for us so
have to pop down to the loby coffee shop for a quick bite. My hk$260
hamburger just arrived. It looks pretty tasty and since it is costing
my left nut… It had better be… Holy expensive hamburger…

UGH what a pile of shite that was… one of the worst bloody hamburgers I have ever eaten. Greasy and no flavour. Just meat, prepared without any thought to seasoning, in a bun, with lettuce and tomato and a basket of fries… I can say one thing, it all looked fancy, but the taste was shite… very dissapointed and with the bill coming to a grand total of HK$275 also very pissed off. So next time you are staying at the InterCon in TST and feel like having a Hamburger best to head to MacDonalds across the way, it tastes better and you will have saved $255..

Thanks to my friend Chris Jean at realthemes.com I am the first person
to be able blog pictures straight from my iPhone.
The camera on the iPhone is really not that good so I will try to
limit its uses to interesting things, like today when we are shooting Anusha
Dandekar of India Mtv fame…

Its raining in Hong Kong, and thanks to Chris Jean, I can now post to
this here blog staight from my iPhone. Chris of http://realthemes.com
has developed a Wordpress tweak to acomplish this. Thanks Chris…

This picture was taken out the window of a photography studio on the 6th floor of Chai Wan Industrial bldg looking down to Wing Tai Road.

Ecovision World Environment Day 2006 at ARMANI BAR/HK Party Photos here…

Yesterday we were a proud sponsor of the World Environment Day celebration and exhibition of renowned artist “CIRO” … Roberto Cipollone (Ciro) was born in Pescara in 1947 where he spent his childhood and years as a young man around the foundry run by his father.

In 1970 he went to Holland were he lived for six years employed as a factory worker. Later on he commented on this period of his life with these words: In the factory where I worked in Holland I made ten thousand screws a day. It was a monotonous job, where any artistic strain was sacrificed. It represented for me a detachment from the world of the arts and this sharpened my desire to see beautiful things?

In 1977 he moved in Loppiano; near Florence, were he is living and working up to the present.
Here in 1982 he established and developed a Bottega Di Ciro- a medieval-like artistic workshop, where painting, sculpture, architecture, art and craftsmanship are in harmony.

For his work he employs several materials: wood, iron, stone, fabric, whatever waste material, which he considers as the richest of life. ‘The material I use is a clear and well oriented choice: it’s intentionally not precious. It’s value is hidden. I only try to let the object tell those humble stories which are still unknown.”

The title says it all. Hong Kong where couples tie the knot with all the trimmins and frills they can find…

In our effort to create a large and diverse collection of stock photographs we have been submiting to ALAMY. Two of our submissions have just cleared and are now available for sale. Check em out at…

(f4.5 @ 1/20 ISO400 Lens Sigma 12-24 @ 15mm - Flash head with difuser pointed up)
Oh yes today we had the great excitment to go shoot at a factory in China that produces LCD modules… So many great photos we did today… Look out Alamy “China Factory Production”…

Mechelle and Matthias’ wedding. Yesterday we were honoured with the task of photographing Mechelle and Matthias’ wedding. The ceremony was at Cotton Tree Drive Marriage Registry, and almost didn’t happen. Apparently in Hong Kong, you cannot be late for you wedding time slot as the Registry runs on a very tight schedule and if you are more than 10 minutes late you miss out. As it was the happy couple were rushed thru the whole process with barly time to catch their breath. Another thing, make sure your wittnesses bring their passport or ID card as they will be needed, as it turns out I the photographer ended up being one of the wittnesses and when the ceremony was starting the Magristrate said for me to sit at the table, someone had to sit in for me and then I had to sign the marriage license. All in all it was a fun light ceremony and the rush job did nothing to diminish the couples enjoyment of the event. They were one of these couples so clearly in love that nothing would have spoiled the day. And as luck would have it, once the ceremony was over and everyone went outside, the rain had all but stopped. So then on to pictures in the park by the waterfall…
After pictures in the park the 50-60 guests were all bussed up to the Peak Lookout Restaurant for a lovely sit down luncheon… Wow do they ever have the best Tira Misu in the world…

(f4.5 @ 1/60 ISO 100 Lens Canon 35-350 @230mm)
Another shot in my series on Hong Kong transport, by the time I am done I want to have a decent picture of every concievable mode of transport in Hong Kong, this great city of hustle and bustle… Hum just had a thought as I was writing this, Hong Kong’s number one mode of trasnport… feet… Stay tuned for shoes, lots and lots of shoes…

(f9 @1/350 ISO 100 Canon 35-350 @ 200mm)
Another in my series on Hong Kong Harbour and all the various craft that ply its waters. Tomorrow we are going out to shoot container ships again.

Today on my way back from Hung Hom I saw this and took a picture of it. One of Hong Kong’s new high speed intercept boats. Wouldn’t want to be one of the guys in there, must be really really bumpy… But hey they are the ones that keep Hong Kong free of smugglers and drugs. Good Job Boys.

Knock Knock…

(f4.5 @250 ISO 200 Lens Canon 35-350 L)
On Saturday the 20th of May we photographed the Shek O Open Water Race. About 70 swimmers competed in the event which saw them swim from Big Wave Bay to Skek O back beach. The winning time for the 2.2km race was 26 minutes 6 seconds by Hong Kong’s top triathalete Daniel Lee Chi-wo… As open water swimming has just been added to the Beijing Olympics there was a fair bit of media coverage of the event.
After the race, athletes and specators enjoyed beach volley ball, beach dash running race and dance performance by the Hong Kong Youth Outreach Program. Thankfully the rain held off and the party continued into the eveing with DJ Antoine spinning on the decks… A very nice day out…
AQUAFEST - Hong Kong Open Water Swimming Race

Another in the series for Signal 8 models… With a little help from Adobe…

Last week we shot a promo card for Signal 8 Models. The idea was PUNK is Business Suit… Our model Hang was brilliant. He pulled all sorts of goofy faces and was a real sport jumping in the air and making great poses… The pictures look really great. Thanks Hang. Thanks Denise Toms and Rebecca from Signal 8 for the great opportunity.
So if your looking for talent check out : : Signal 8 Models : :
, cause they got it…

Look Mom, I do have friends…

and just because it was such a nice day flying the kite. Our kite is a 2.5m flexifoil that we bought in Brasil for R240 and then paid an additional US$75 for proper kite surfing strings. It is a wicked kite and with the new stings it turns on a dime… Lots of fun for those sunny days at the beach. And hey we are having a typhoon tomorrow so maybe …

(f 5.6 @ 1/500 ISO 100 Lens Sigma 24-135)
After weeks and weeks of saying to each other we have to go fly the kite, we finally got over to Lamma island on a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon. First we headed to the Man Kee Restrauant in Yung Shue Wan, for some of those tasty fish and chips, yes they are still as good as… Then we hiked up the hill to the Lamma Winds Turbine Wind Turbine…

(f 5.6 @ 1/500 ISO 100 Lens Sigma 24-135)
The project is now finished and there is a little park and interpretation center at the bottom of the giant 71m wind turbine. It is so cool to be standing below the thing as it swishes around and around. It being quite a windy day the turbine was turning at quite a pace. We then headed south along the brush trail heading toward the south end of the island. On the next hill over from the Turbine, Ju says to me, “why can’t we fly here its quite windy”. And what a good idea it was, a good wind was blowing and we got to fly our kite on a hill overlooking the lamma channel. What a beautiful day…
(f 5.6 @ 1/500 ISO 100 Lens Sigma 24-135)

Dear Mommy Happy Mothers Day, here is some flowers for you lots of Love Sean & Ju.
Querida Mae Feliz Dia das Maes, aqui estao algumas flores para vocé com muito amor JU & Sean…

This shot was taken in 2003 on my trip to Nepal to visit Douglas and the Child Welfare Scheme of Nepal… Based in Pokra, CWS provides much needed care to Nepals disadvantaged children. Check them out on the web at Child Welfare Scheme/Nepal

( Camera EOS 10D - f16 @ 125 ISO 400 Lens Canon 28-80 2.8L)
(Studio set up; two large soft boxes left and right with a snoot on a rail above and behind to give the nice rim lighting on the hair.)
Today we shot a promo card for Signal 8 Models. Hang was very kind enough to offer his services as our punk and underwent a bit of a transformation under the ministrations of Denise Toms. We tried all sorts of different emotions and facial expressions and the results are awesome. They are going straight to stock.

These were shot on slide film about 3 years ago on Boxing day. As they were shot on film I have no MetaData to tell you what aperture and shutter I used. What I can tell you is that they were shot on Kodak VS 100. A very nice saturated colour slide film.
To the hunters who have been waiting for these. So sorry it took me so long, but I have now scanned the best of the shots from that day and they are available for sale as fine art prints. Please contact me for details sdb@sdbphoto.com Here are the rest of them…

(f2.8 @ 1/3 sec ISO 400 Lens Canon 28-80 2.8L)

(f2.8 @ 1/3 sec ISO 400 Lens Canon 28-80 2.8L)
Two of my favorite shots taken from the roof of the IFC2 at night. Last year we got to go to the top of the IFC2 when shooting a job for OTIS Elevator Company. It was fantastic to see the city from such a vantge point. These shots have been processed in Camera RAW and as you can see I have tweaked the colours a bit. The first one reminds me of a volcano and the second CHAOS…

(f5.6 @ 125 ISO 100 Lens Canon 35-350L)
A couple of weeks ago we went down to the Kowloon Typhoon shelter on a photo safari, we commissioned a sampan to take us on a little cruise around the typhoon shelter. As we were sailing past all the container barges, cranes and other assorted vessels we spotted some herons or cranes, what ever this bird is I don’t know, but as it took off I tracked it with my camera and somehow managed to lock the focus on and get one shot off. This is an amazing shot if you look closely the tip of the wing is in perfect focus and you can see the detail in the feathers. Anyone in Hong Kong will instantly recognise the background as being a container barge…
One of my very favorite shots this year… so far…

(f27 @ 1/2sec ISO 100 Len Canon 35-350L)
DJKASS crosstown traffic. I have wanted to do this shot for a long long time and finally this week a good friend DJ Kass and I meet down at Queens Road Central, right in front of Marks & Spencers to do this shot. It was lots of fun waiting for the traffic light to change then rushing out into the street, DJKass to get in posture, me to focus the camera and then start shooting as all the lunch hour crowd crossed back and forth creating the interesting blurs. Thanks to all the office ladies and gents for their participation…
I am going to repeat the idea in a few weeks but have a pretty girl in couture…