Feng Shui Scented Candles © Jan Shim Photography
Creativity is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration
Many heart-felt thanks for visiting SHIMworld and taking a moment to post your thoughts. Your comments and support are an integral part of my work and after you leave, they continue to inspire me.
When you took that picture of me in Kuala Belait, i really thought … oh no. not like this. and i am not ready to take picture…. And guess what? You took it and deliver it to me via my email, i was so surprised. Really beautiful i have to say and i recieved a few good comments on that too. I quickly post it in my blog and i just can’t stop looking at it and imagine that you’re always there infront of me taking that shot.. again and again.. Thank you .. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.. (www.aboutzura.blogspot.com)
Greetings Zura,
It’s good to hear from you again. I wondered where you disappeared to after the recent Shell event where you MC’d. I hadn’t realised you posted the off-the-cuff photo on your site and it took me a while before I found its location on your blog.
http://aboutzura.blogspot.com/2007/07/photo-taken-by-jan-shim.html
I’m happy you liked it :).
Hello greeting from Los Angeles. Yes i do love it so much. Amazing how you did it. I can’t believed that it would turn out to be really beautiful yet simple (sort of au natural). Important tu for Zura (i sound so vain but thats the truth about the beautiful picture taken especially by you) …I must say Amazing… everytime i see it, i said Amazing….
Dear Jan Shim:
Hello, I don`t know whether I can submit successful?
because I post this by web proxy !
Just let to know , you`re awesome and kindness!
As fan of Chun I have read “Wu chun in the zone!”
Thank you for sharing Wu chun`s pics~
I have also seen your else pics in your gallery which are pretty beautiful ! I like them!
I have to say when I saw your food pics the day before yesterday, I went to eat Japanese Cuisine with my friends at once yesterday.
welcome you to Beijing ~
Taking photos Beijing 2008 Olympics ^_^
sorry my english so so, please allow me to say chinese
如果在这里留言给您带来不方便，我很抱歉望您谅解
我只是想真诚感谢您的照片分享，感谢您的慷慨
我非常喜歡您拍攝的作品，“她们”好美带给我浓浓的幸福感
Thank you very much ~~~!
祝好！
xiaoyue 小月
Beijing . china
Hi Jan, it’s a pleasure to meet you finally
Hope to see you around soon.
Cheers
Hey my friend, you getting famous in China and Baidu for this Wu Zhun photos.
Good shoot!
Keep it up.
I still updating my blogs…but not write daily…tried to write more and more, my life, my dream, my photos and many others…
Sorry for my poor English on my blog, so sometime I rather type in Chinese…but will be a bit slow anyway…
Hello,
I found your site a few months ago by a link from ranoadidas.com and I think your photos are AWESOME! for lack of a better word.
I also think it’s great you’re from KB cause I was born there although my parents brought us to Bandar to settle down, we still commute to KB two or three times a month on weekends to visit family. I totally understand how tiring the travelling part can be cos my mum used to do that everyday for a year as she was transferred for work there.
Hey, you should hire someone to drive you to Bandar and back if that can solve the fatigue part of the problem. It won’t solve the time bit though.
Cheers!
Hi Jan,
The photos you took are amazing. I’ll recommend to my husband to take a look as he’s interested in photography too. I recommend a trip to Hokkaido in summer. We were just there and couldn’t take enough pictures of the lavender fields, hot springs etc. Plus the weather was fantastic at 23′C during the day. After leaving Malaysia in 2000, we stayed in Tokyo and Singapore and now Hong Kong, so your shots of Tokyo brought back lots of memories.
Anyway, good luck with website and when I have the time, I’ll contribute too.
Regards,
Kim
Hi there..
This is the first time i checked out your blog..good stuff, classy, touched me in some instances and liked the wit you showed in your narratives..
Regards,
Fauziah
Hi Jan
Firstly, thank you for offering to answer queries as a professional photographer, a trait which i think is very much appreciated by people who want to learn more.
i am currently on a nikon system. i understand you shoot on a 20D platform, and uses better than average lenses. but i find ur pictures impeccably sharp and colours vivid. isit because of equipment? or u have a general post processing workflow that improves the images? moreover u said u shoot with 10-22 most of the time, i have a 10-20 sigma, the images does not come out as sharp, colours as vivid. i normally shoot at f8 in daylight.
for most of shots which include the sky, i also note that the skies seem very well defined and the presence of clouds vivid. do u use any filters ?
for portraits, do u use a telezoom (maybe70-200L) to achieve depth of field instead of prime lenses? as an event photographer, which will u recommend?
thank you for taking your time..
cheers
kangli
Saw you on DPReview in the RAW or JPEG forum I also shoot JPEG
saw your work and wanted to say Hi nice work
JFT
Hello Jan..
Your shots and narratives capture the expressions and soul of the subject! The angles from your lens are definitely aesthetic! Well done!
Lily Chiam
Dear Jan Shim,
Greetings from Canon Singapore.
Thank you very much for updating us your news and sharing your photos that we found very interesting.
We look forward to working and sharing your works with us some days.
Best regards,
Roland Poon
Hello Jan,
Happy summer to you.
I just wanted to touch base with you and tell you how much I have enjoyed your site lately. I liked the piece about fathers day. This was the first one I had spent without my dad. He passed away only 3 months ago, and I still miss him a lot. I also liked the stuff about the 20D and the grip. I don’t have a grip for mine, but it was a good piece.
I do hope all is going well for you and your family. I have been busy with a wedding I did before I went away, and getting a wedding book together for the bride. My son graduated from High School last week, and we had a big cookout and all for that.
Summer moves rather fast around here. We have a German exchange student coming to be with us in the fall for a year, so we are getting ready for her also. She is the sister of our “other” German daughter that was here 3 years ago. She is now back in Berlin at university.
Well I just wanted to say hey, and let you know that I do appreciate your piece about my book. I am glad you got it, and hope you enjoy it.
Take care……
mike patterson
hanover county public schools
Hello there Jan,
Dont know if you remember us.. You took pictures for us during our first anniversary which we were so happy about by the way. This August would be our third year in the business and we plan to launch a new drink and food menu to keep up with the demands of our customers. We propose to launch a more attractive menu which will include beautiful photos of the food and drinks we offer.
After browsing your website I was very impressed with your photography and would like to request yourself to take the pictures for us.
Regards,
Irwyna Idris
Twelv Cafe and Restaurant
Hello
I ‘ve see your web site by JAlbum.
I am painting and drawing for pleasure, and i would like your permission for drawing and painting some of your landing about china issute of your photo.
Sorry for my english i’m french.
You make a very and beautyfull work
I do really appreciate your email, Mr. Jan
It’s really nice blog!
I will share your great blog with our president and colleagues.
Really thank you so much for your support.
Joe Matsumoto
Matsumoto Yasuhiko (ex.3586)
Canon Singapore Pte Ltd
CII Professional Business Development Dept
Hi, Mr. Jan
At first ,I must tell you that my english is not very good,so
perhaps there are some mistakes,so don’t care about them.
Thanks for sharing your pictures here,these pictures are very
excellent espically some took in fitness zone and Wu Chun~~
I think you must know I am a fan of Chun.so I am very enjoy
these pictures.
So, at last, thanks a million.
Hi Jan, still in Singapore? i still admire all your work, eversince you did for the Crown prince visit in MASHHOR up to date. You deserve to have somethin better than this, Jan. The recent photos taken by you, are the most mouth watery which i have never felt before. like the Bruneian said, macam banar ani wah gambar nya. Hehehe… anyways, i do believe in you and all the best Jan!
Pixelpost is Windows only (mac user), and I don’t have a definitive understanding of what the commitments are to use WORDPRESS commercially. Jan explained that the .org versions are for commercial applications, but does that mean for sales and collections online, or does it also apply to marketing the studio through conversational pieces similar to Shimworld? I don’t care much about selling from a blog site, having learned over the past two years that online sales isn’t all that great a tool.
In looking around, I learned that Apple’s iWeb provides blog pages, but the use looks pretty limited. I also played with MacJournal but have decided it won’t do what Jan has done with Shimworld, which I really like.
I’m your visitor from Izmir,TURKEY. I just want to express that your works and photos are the best i have ever seen. All photos are great and have real emotions. I cannot express myself completely!
Hi Jan - Greetings.
You unsurprisingly have been doing some amazing work and are becoming more n more famous - proud of you.
If you have a bit of time pls visit our “new” website http://www.freme.com and would certainly apprec yur honest professional comments.
Take a look at our Australian Packages and the Medcial Pckg and Inbound sub-sites. We have not officially launched it yet as this is an online booking tool and pax can book online but there are still some unfinished work and hope to launch it asap.
So far we are gettign some rave reviews esp among the expat community. But I am sure we can still improve further. When are you free to have a chat over lunch or in KB office ? Pls let me know. Tks
Hi Jan,
Incredible work. Very inspirational.
I was looking through your blog and (besides your work) really love how you frame, sharpen, and size your pictures. Do you have an helpful hints for a photographer just starting out? I feel like I’m struggling with resizing and framing my images. Are you doing a stroke on your image with a slight drop shadow?
What width do you use to resize horizontal and vertical? What dpi do you use?
Thank you so much for even taking the time to read this. Off to soak in more stunning pictures from your site.
~Maggie
Excerpt from KB Happening’s SOI HENG AFTERNOON RENDEZVOUS
Hi there, Just to let you know that I’ve linked your blog to my blogsite…. Cheers..
Thanks Lin!
Excerpt from AFTER THE SMOKE HAS CLEARED
Did you know there is a new cool and intimate new sushi place in Rome which offers high quality Japanese foods for eating or take-away, and offers great hand-made cakes and free wifi to all customers?
http://naoko-sushi-roma.blogspot.com/
I am running this just as a test as I know the owner of this sushi place and wish to send him some free promotion via your new service. Since traffic is very moderate now on the referenced sushi blog I want to see how much of an impact a small social link campaing like yours can produce. Very curious.
Dear Jan,
Thank U very much for your excellent write-up and those impressive photos. Well, we think U have said it all in your articles. We hope that Pelangi De’ Mutiara Tourist Square will be a true treasure in Brunei where the tourists will be able to relax, enjoy n bring back home something with them for a wonderful memory of Brunei Darussalam - “A Kingdom of Unexpected Treasures”
THANK U again and U should come back n take another shot of the aeroplane with the under-carriage fully exposed. We will give U a glass of our Iced Lemon Peach Tea (on the house) while U wait for the right timing.
Cheers & best regards,
chris & inju
p/s - come by anytime (opening hours) for a cup of cappuccino!!!