'Lurking...' #3 《另途之期望》 三

'Lurking...' #3 《另途之期望》 三

'Lurking...' #3 were taken on 02 Feb 2006. As part of the series, #3 have a different perspective of Life. #3 symbolizes leadership and self-improvement. With every single step on the stairs, one learns the Way of Life and be a better Man who leads and guides others to attain their own Life achievements.

'Lurking...' #2 《另途之期望》 二

'Lurking...' #2 《另途之期望》 二

'Lurking...' #2 was taken on 15 Jan 2006. As part of the series, #2 has a different perspective of Life. Individual's fate differs but when it comes to the end of the road, we are all the same. #2 symbolizes to those who lead a well-to-do and luxurious lives as the many lights from the lamp posts shown in the picture.

'Lurking...' series 《另途之期望》 系列

'Lurking...' series 《另途之期望》 系列

After making many successful B&W nite pictures, I'm proud to know that I have a representative series of work and I titled it 'Lurking...'. Yes I have it in Chinese titles too. It's pretty much in metaphors about Life. It's still ongoing and I'm planning to have a series of 12 monographs. So far I have 3. More coming soon.

'Lurking...' #1 was taken on a Friday night dated 18 March 2005. I walked past this underpass towards Fort Canning Park. Upon reaching the other end of the underpass tunnel, there's a 2-way divergence. In front of me, one spiral stairs to climb up and on my right, a low steep curvy slope path with 2 high walls on each side, both leading to the same destination.

I took a walk to the latter one, walking up & down, looking & observing the area. Finally i found myself back to the starting point and set up the camera at a lower angle. I took 2 bracket shots of different angles. This is the 2nd exposure with the best result.

I like this shot becuz the curvy pavement leading to a right angle turn making you think what's behind there. There's some mysterious impact that makes this picture much interesting and appealing. Just in Life, one will never know nor predict the future, as in this case, what lies beyond the other side of the path. Life's path is never be straight and smooth as there are highs and lows and many other obstacles where one has to learn to overcome it with great courage and strength. As one moves along the way, one may lose his/her ways and this is when that light from the lamp post, which symbolizes hope and future. It guides us through our lives.

DWELL IN THE NIGHT

Quiet Alley

DWELL IN THE NIGHT is a personal photographic project which started out in late 2004. The objective is to capture the cold and calmness of the night where time and space standstill. The scent, the climax, the beautiful night vision, and the most neglected night scenes send off the sentimentalism or nostalgia value of one's own feelings to his/her surrounding environment.

Some mysterious combination of feeling light and the smell of an unrecognized plant bring back to some men the sense of childhood, and of future hopes, and to others the sense of something which has been lost and nearly forgotten.

DWELL IN THE NIGHT, by its very nature, is a subjective study. It may covers or touches on a wide aspect of night photography but howsoever, every single picture made that captures the very moment at that time and space which are intangible enough (I hope) to interlink them together.

Therefore DWELL IN THE NIGHT is opened for interpretations...