Memory, in print...

One of my online contact mentioned that, photoshopping (PS) your photograph is like putting up makeup on a person, ie. to make it looks nicer, and prettier…

Ok, since I'm not so a person who's into makeup, cosmetic and so on, (I do not want to be harsh in using the word "against" ^_^)

I therefore, do not agree with what she's stated…

Anyway, not that it concerns anybody…

And also, therefore, I do not really believe in PS-ing your photographs, ok, minimal, maybe, but just not overdoing it…

However, lately,

I start to believe in PS-ing your photographs…

Still not the over-do type, (well, to me, it's not an overdo!)

All because of 1 person,

I love her photography, absolutely…

Very very very very very love!!!

Gabriel Kai,

I love her photosets… simply lovely…

If you look further into her photographs collection, all of them are about the same theme…

Maybe you still think it's very heavy PS… ya, maybe I used to think of it that way too,

However, looking at her works lately…

I feel like, it's looking into one's memory, looking into what one sees…, and what's left in one's mind… maybe forever… maybe for a few years…

I've always thought that, the way a person takes photo, is, basically the way, a person sees the world…

That's my belief… our camera represents our eyes, what we see, we store in our memory, what we snap, it's stored in the memory card,

And therefore, same place, same object, same person, but different people come and snap a picture, the picture will look different…

That's why, I love seeing photos my friends take… cos, if eyes can't lie, well… to a certain extent (unless you heavily PS your photos) photos can't lie too…

It tells me, what my friends really see, or truly see, when they travel to a place…

That's my perception, about photos… which, maybe it's common sense, however… forgive me for putting it in such lengthy and maybe… confusing paragraph… ^_^

BUT, with Gabriel Kai,

I love the way she "sees" things, and people, and sceneries…

And I love the way she presents these works… it feels… close!!

Close to our hearts, or, at least, my heart…

It just like, these are the things that stay long ago, in our memory, which, sometimes, we've forgotten,

We've forgotten that,

Life's is so simple, yet beautiful…

Browsing through her photos, don’t you think so???