"Fine Art" Style Product Photos

I was recently contacted by a startup company, WaveBender Inc., to photograph their new product. The challenge: the pictures had to look like fine art pieces for their web application and other marketing collaterals.

The project was very unique due to the client's defined style, and photographing the product in a conventional way would not convey the artistic vision. Therefore, I had to work with the product in very different ways. I used microphotography and extremely colorful lighting to bring out the details and textures of the product. With the color, shape, and the dreamy blur, the products transcended into something more than just its original physical presence.

The web site they created with those images is stunning!

Landed a Magazine Cover in Taiwan!

Today, our family went gift shopping, and while we were at a Chinese gift store, something caught my eyes... Wow, that IS my picture!……on a Taiwanese magazine cover! It is the November 2007 issue of the PC Home Shopper Magazine, one of the biggest computer hardware magazines.

I took the picture a few months ago for Intel’s Tera-scale 80 core microprocessor announcement. The core announcement picture got published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicles and many other mainstream media around the globe, with impression count of at least 80 million world wide. Fascinating!... This picture - one of the many contingent images I took for Intel - has made its own way back to my hometown in Taiwan a few months later!...


Talk about the "Global Village" and the "Small World"...

DARPA Urban Challenge 2007

November 3rd, 2007... The day of the coolest and the slowest car race ever, the one that has no driver at all! It’s DARPA 2007 Urban Challenge. During the last few years, multiple teams have completed the Grand Challenge, a hundred mile run in the desert. This year, DARPA decided to raise the bar and challenge the autonomous robots to interact with the urban environment and each other.

This is what happened in Victorville, CA on that day!



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