JWJ selected foto - Pulau Klang, Krabi

Persembahan kebudayaan di Pulau Klang, Krabi, Siam.

Shot with GF1 M Zuiko 17mm 2.8

Tanjung Piai: Penghujung Benua Asia

The Southern most tip of Mainland Asia. 

Tanjung Piai, Pontian, Johor. Malaya.

14/03/2009

Classic D2H

Is where I dropped my nikkor lens rear cap.

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Al-Quran tentang Zulkarnain

86: Hingga apabila dia telah sampai ke tempat terbenam matahari, dia melihat matahari terbenam di dalam laut yang berlumpur hitam,

Bugis Street Kopitiam

Bugis Street Kopitiam. Now Opening

@ Pandan Indah, Selangor. Next to the Store

8.30 am to 2.30 am daily

Wifi Inside.

Home made Dadih and Malay Kaya also available.

This is a Bugis Kopitiam.

Bersih-Suci-Halal.

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indoor shoot with iPhone Classic

Feel free to throw in comment or feedback about Bugis Street in here

(if you happen to go there because of this site)

4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of Images

BAGHDAD — The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war.

Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.

If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.

It is a complex issue, with competing claims often difficult to weigh in an age of instant communication around the globe via the Internet, in which such images can add to the immediate grief of families and the anger of comrades still in the field.

While the Bush administration faced criticism for overt political manipulation in not permitting photos of flag-draped coffins, the issue is more emotional on the battlefield: local military commanders worry about security in publishing images of the American dead as well as an affront to the dignity of fallen comrades. Most newspapers refuse to publish such pictures as a matter of policy.

But opponents of the war, civil liberties advocates and journalists argue that the public portrayal of the war is being sanitized and that Americans who choose to do so have the right to see — in whatever medium — the human cost of a war that polls consistently show is unpopular with Americans.

Journalists say it is now harder, or harder than in the earlier years, to accompany troops in Iraq on combat missions. Even memorial services for killed soldiers, once routinely open, are increasingly off limits. Detainees were widely photographed in the early years of the war, but the Department of Defense, citing prisoners’ rights, has recently stopped that practice as well.

And while publishing photos of American dead is not barred under the “embed” rules in which journalists travel with military units, the Miller case underscores what is apparently one reality of the Iraq war: that doing so, even under the rules, can result in expulsion from covering the war with the military.

“It is absolutely censorship,” Mr. Miller said. “I took pictures of something they didn’t like, and they removed me. Deciding what I can and cannot document, I don’t see a clearer definition of censorship.”

The Marine Corps denied it was trying to place limits on the news media and said Mr. Miller broke embed regulations. Security is the issue, officials said.

“Specifically, Mr. Miller provided our enemy with an after-action report on the effectiveness of their attack and on the response procedures of U.S. and Iraqi forces,” said Lt. Col. Chris Hughes, a Marine spokesman.

News organizations say that such restrictions are one factor in declining coverage of the war, along with the danger, the high cost to financially ailing media outlets and diminished interest among Americans in following the war. By a recent count, only half a dozen Western photographers were covering a war in which 150,000 American troops are engaged.

In Mr. Miller’s case, a senior military official in Baghdad said that while his photographs were still under review, a preliminary assessment showed he had not violated ground rules established by the multinational force command. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing, emphasized that Mr. Miller was still credentialed to work in Iraq, though several military officials acknowledged that no military unit would accept him.

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THE MALAY PRESS, laman baru penulisan lebih kritis.

Bismillah...

Sukacitanya penulis mengumumkan pembukaan laman baru iaitu The Malay Press sebagai lapangan khas bagi tujuan penulisan yang lebih kritis.

Penulis juga berharap dapat menyiarkan berita-berita tercorok yang tidak mendapat tempat dalam akhbar perdana, disamping membuat terjemahan dari artikel-artikel yang lebih berat dan bernas dari luar negeri atau dalam negeri untuk tujuan dikongsi bersama.

Diharap usaha penulis ini diberi kelapangan dan kemudahan dariNya.

Sekian.
Terima Kasih.

nota: 'THE MALAY PRESS' adalah sebuah nama khas. Ia bukan nama am yang mewakili warta/press Melayu (atau the Malay press) arus perdana yang sedia ada. Harap maklum.

Fotosketches: Ketenangan...

Date : 15 October 2007
Camera: OLY 35SP
Lens: Indisputable Sharp Zuiko G
Film: Kodak BW400 CN
Exposure: F4 with Flash
Location: Masjid Kubang Semang, Bukit Mertajam, Malaya.

Fotosketches: Tragedi Kedai Mamak

Foto: Orang ramai hanya sibuk menayang muka menunjuk belas, tetapi sudah terlewat. 'Cash register' dan duit syiling bertaburan dijalan raya.

Tempat: Selayang
Masa: 2.00 AM
Tarikh : 19.09.2007
Kamera: Oly 35SP
Film: Fuji Neopan B&W ISO 400

Selayang, Selangor:- Satu rompakan nekad dan bersenjata telah berlaku disebuah kedai mamak 24 jam. Seorang perompak yang bersenjatakan parang dengan tenang menetak seorang juruwang sambil melarikan sebuah 'cash register' dicelah-celah kedai yang dipenuhi pelanggan.

Orang ramai yang ada tergamam dan ada juga yang berlari terpekik meminta tolong dengan kerusi meja terbalik. Tiada seorang pun yang berani menghalang perompak gila yang berparang. Penulis yang berada tidak jauh dari tempat kejadian bergegas mencapai kamera tetapi sudah terlewat apabila perompak itu berjaya melarikan diri dengan sebuah motosikal. Polis hanya tiba lebih kurang 10 minit setelah kejadian itu berakhir.

Apa yang penulis pasti ialah juruwang tersebut cedera parah ditetak dibahu, dan darah berceceran dimerata lantai kedai. Seperti biasa, CCTV yang ada hanya sebagai perhiasan, cuma untuk menakutkan pencuri kecil-kecilan.

Jelas, malang tidak berbau, apabila kejadian rompakan seperti ini berlaku, tiada siapa yang dapat membantu; tidak dari polis mahupun orang ramai, melainkan 'selamat' dengan kehendakNya.

Ia boleh mengenai pada sesiapa sahaja dan pada bila-bila masa tanpa amaran.
Jadi, orang ramai perlu sedar tentang keperluan pertahanan diri dikala keadaan mendesak seperti rompakan diatas.

Jangan bila tehantuk baru nak tengadah...
Ini bukan berita terkini, tapi hanya jurnal dan pemerhatian..

Anyway, no point asking whose to blame.
If you gonna die, die with your boots on!

pesanan masyarakat dari:
Herman Abdullah / MODMANTFOTO.COM

Fotosketches - The Royal Guard Ghost March

The Royal Guard Ghost March
Date : 31st August 2007
Venue: Sultan Abdul Samad Building, KL

Info:
The Royal Guards will make their appearance only for special occasion that involve DYMM Yang DiPertuan Agong Malaysia.


proudly brought to you
by modmantfoto.com

Fotosketches - The Merdeka Man Silhouette

Date: 24th August 2007
Title : Merdeka Silhoutte
Place : Merdeka Square,Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
Description : 50th Merdeka Day Preparation Night.
Camera : Oly 35SP
Film : Kodak BW400CN

The Merdeka Man, will he be here freed, at the same time on the 24th August 2057?
Maybe his kid...

by modmantfoto.com

KL Festival 2007

Photo: Syafinaz Selamat, Gold Medalist - World Champion Of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, USA (1999), performing for KL Music Festival at Istana Budaya, Malaysia.

Its shine!
modmantfoto.com

Fotosketches - Made Difference

23rd June 2007, IIUM, Gombak.
Photo: In her own world. A girl holding a blue poodle balloon, squatting. Deafening crowd seems silenced.

Its different!
modmantfoto.com

KL Festival 2007 - Opening

Photo : Sean Ghazi singer and dancer in London and is one of the first Malaysians to feature on both the international stage and screen, at the opening ceremony of KL Festival 2007.

KL Festival 2007

2nd July 2007, Panggung Sari, Istana Budaya.
Photo of Zainal Abidin, Malay Folk Songs Ambassador as pronounced by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, Malaysia.

KL Festival 2007 will be held from 1st July - 31st July 2007.
A total of 75 activities and various of art events will be implemented throughout the month. So don't miss it...

Where the Arts Come Alive!
modmantfoto.com

Fotosketches - A Single Reflection

22nd June 2007-IIUM Stadium, Gombak.
Photo: A reflection during soundcheck and stage preparation before Mr Papa Rock Ramli Sarip and Sifu M.Nasir performs a nite-live for DRB-HICOM Sports Carnival 2007.

Its reflect!
modmantfoto.com

National Silat Event Foto Series

10 JUN 2007 @ 3.00 PETANG
Demonstrasi Pertunjukan Besar-besaran
Padang Majlis Perbandaran Kangar, Perlis

Upacara Penutup Perayaan 41 Tahun Cekak-Membina Bangsa Berbudaya.

Disempurnakan oleh Y.Bhg. Kol. Dato' Dr. Kamarudin Husin, Naib Canselor UniMAP.

Another collection of Silat Melayu Foto Series by:
www.modmantfoto.com: CEKAK 41 FOTO SERIES

Fotos were uploaded in low resolution for hi-speed internet access.

NUJ minta kerajaan iktiraf blog media baru

KUALA LUMPUR 2 Mei – Kesatuan Kebangsaan Wartawan Malaysia (NUJ) mahu kerajaan mengiktiraf kewujudan laporan dalam Internet dan blog sebagai media baru bagi menyebarkan maklumat.

Presiden NUJ, Norila Mohd. Daud berkata, fenomena mendapatkan maklumat menerusi Internet memberi kesan yang amat besar dan ini menjadi sumber maklumat alternatif isu-isu semasa yang menyentuh masyarakat di negara ini.

“Penggunaan Internet dan konsep dunia tanpa sempadan yang tidak ditapis telah menjadikan maklumat lebih mudah diperoleh oleh sesiapa jua.” katanya dalam satu kenyataan di sini, sempena Hari Kebebasan Akhbar Antarabangsa yang akan disambut esok.

“Melihat kepada perkembangan terkini, NUJ berpendapat kerajaan harus memberikan lebih kebebasan kepada akhbar tempatan dengan meminda beberapa undang-undang yang menyekat seperti Akta Mesin Cetak dan Penerbitan serta Akta Rahsia Rasmi (OSA),” katanya.

– Bernama

Petikan/Suntingan : Utusan Malaysia 3 May 2007

Presiden PESAKA perlu contohi Muhammad Taib

SEREMBAN – Sesiapa sahaja sama ada orang politik atau silat yang dipilih mengetuai Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (Pesaka) diminta mencontohi Senator Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd. Taib yang memimpin pertubuhan itu selama 18 tahun dengan baik.

Mahaguru Silat Lincah, Datuk Omardin Mauju berkata, Muhammad memimpin tanpa menimbulkan sebarang masalah dan sekiranya ia wujud sekalipun, semuanya dapat diselesaikan dengan baik serta berhemah.

Katanya, Muhammad juga menerajui Pesaka sewaktu bergelar Menteri Besar Selangor sehinggalah dia tidak mempunyai apa-apa jawatan dalam kerajaan.

Semalam, Pemangku Presiden Pesaka yang juga Menteri Besar Negeri Sembilan, Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan mengumumkan peletakan jawatannya berkuat kuasa serta merta.

Beliau membuat keputusan untuk melepaskan jawatan yang disandang sejak Mac tahun lalu bagi memberi laluan kepada pemimpin lain menerajui pertubuhan itu.

Mengenai pendiriannya yang menentang usaha mewujudkan modul silat yang seragam, Omardin berkata ia adalah untuk memenuhi permintaan Perdana Menteri yang merupakan antara pengasas Pesaka.

Petikan: Utusan Malaysia 4 April 2007

Islamic Fashion Festival 06 Foto Series

Malaysia International Fashion Week.
Islamic Fashion Festival
25.11.2006
Saturday
KL Convention Centre.

A designer called up for series of runway shot, a subsequent to the KL Fashion Week. I was on assignment.

No further comment. As usual I delivered.

KL Fashion Week 06 Foto Series

KL Fashion Week
Berjaya Times Square
Whole Week
11-18 November 2006

A designer called up for series of runway shot. I was on assignment for a week.

Managed to meet up with Mr. Latiff, the MODA(Italy) magazine photographer. Time very well-spent.

note: Victoria's Fashion Secret..better

MERCY Malaysia Foto Series

MERCY Malaysia
KLCC
26 Ogos 2006
VVIP HRH Sultan Azlan Shah.

A friend called me up for a charity shot for MERCY Malaysia. I was on assignment.

Opportunity before hand not to be missed. Enough to compensate my bill.

'Had a really good time photographing HRH.

Delivered with mercy.