:: Rosli Othman Photoblog ::

It’s been almost 2 months since I last post an entry. I’m trying my best to keep things up-to-date and not bragging too much with what’s holding me back. A few highlights within this 2 months period- my one and only sister got married, Danial is now 4 years old, I broke my wife’s laptop, got myself a new ‘toy’ and amazingly.. Cardiff City FC is in the FA Cup Finals against Portsmouth!! hahhaha go BLUE BIRDS! I will post an entry accordingly, so stay tuned..that’s a promise hahaha

Last Easter we went to Cornwall (South of England). The plan was to take Danial camping but UK weather was crap as usual and we ended up booking a caravan instead. The place was called Trencreek Farm in St Austell. We booked a static caravan with two rooms complete with a louge, kitchen shower and toilet..pretty cosy indeed.

having breakfast in the lounge

kitchen view from the lounge

Caravan No. 3

We went to Blue Reef Aqurium in Newquay

Danial was amazed to see the fish up close

and so is my Hila

both of them in the tunnel

we found ‘Nemo’ hehehe

Danial by the entrance

After that we went to Land’s End, the most southern tip of England or UK in general. Danial was fast asleep when we got there. Hila decided not to wake him up so I had to stroll along by myself and took my own ‘iconic’ photo by myself. Apparently, you have to pay to get you photos taken by the ‘Land’s End’ sign and believe it or not the guy’s still using film with manual flash! cool..

that’s the famous Land’s End sign behind my head

us by the farm’s entrance just before heading back to Cardiff

This was the first time we stayed in a caravan. We like it so much..we might do it again on our next holiday!

~yours truly~

Taking photos of weddings is a tiring job but a fun one too! when there are more than one photographer involved, sometimes we do play around taking photos of each other. this is an examples of just that

Me txt-ing on the job..i also store my ideas on the mobile hehe..photo taken by faris fakri during my recent wedding job

Faris, my 2nd photographer during the light test before the dance.

~yours truly~

I shot this wedding 2 weeks ago. Kevin works at a plastic factory in Caerphilly while Julie is a training nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital. They’ve known each other for quite a while but only became intimate about 2 years ago. The ceremony was witnessed by 50 guests including both parents, close relatives and best friends. I have the pleasure of having Faris Fakri as my 2nd photographer for the day. To Kevin and Julie…Rosli Othman Photography wishes you both a happy life and bright future together! Thanks a million for the trust given to us to capture your memories.

click the thumbnails below for the full slideshow..enjoy

~yours truly~

Last Sunday, Hila wanted to go window shopping at the Factory Outlet in Bridgend not far from our house. I don’t really mind going since I needed a break from editing images anyway. But window shopping for her also means “please look after danial for me!” kekeke. We got there about 1.30hrs before closing time so there were not many people around. Hila went for a quick browse to her usual shops (potmeirion, GAP and handbags + accessories shops) while I tried my best to entertain myself and danial with my camera!

hila in one of her fav shop

as you can see some of the shops are already closed

me and danial

me and hila

danial being himself

one last shot before we head back

p/s: i’ll post an entry on a previous wedding job i did recently when I got time.

~yours truly~

Yesterday, we went to a friends house in Neath. Adlan and Juhana invited us for their daughter’s Erin’s 1st birthday party. We head straight to neath after I came back from work. The foods were lovely and even better we get to eat while watching England v Ireland on the tele! The kids had a great time playing and eating cakes..these are some shots taken yesterday..

the mums..

the gossipings kekeke

Wales No.1 supporter! Taufiq + Shameem and their son Nabil

Hail + Mia and their two boys Haris and Hafey (not really sure with the spellings hehe)

Hail + Mia minus the boys kekeke..

Nice and cosy..

Azam’s boy Danial in his spidey suit..

ooohhh…how cute! Ina + Ihsan’s new edition Faares

the host, Juhana + Adlan and Erin’s birthday present..rocking horse with real sound..cool!

Adlan and his sister (forgot her name..sorry :P)

The candle blowing (the b’day girl hasn’t got a clue what’s goin on hahaha)

Group shot! B’day girl with her horse and behind her…six cheeky boys hahahaha

thanks Adlan and Juhana for the invite! we had a great time..

~yours truly~

yup! the first Mc Donalds restaurant in the UK to serve Halal Meal (chicken only). It’s located in Tudor Road, Southall London. That’s Hila (who was very2 excited!) ordering our meals hehehe

Danial with his chicken nuggets happy meal instead of the usual fish fingers happy meal..and this time with a puppy soft toy.

Hila finally get to taste her favorite Mc Chicken! (somehow its called Chicken Legend here)

A quick snap by the entrance before heading back to Cardiff hehe..nice blue sky!

~yours truly~

Last weekend we (me, hila and danial) were in London. Hila was sitting for her FRCR exams and we stayed at London Hilton Metropole. It was a cold and windy weekend and we are not in a mood to spend time outside. I was left to babysit while Hila went for her exams. Danial was jumping on the bed as usual and it was quite annoying at times. But like they say, if you can’t fight them join them hahaha and so i did..this is what happened next..

this is us trying to imitate space-walk hahaha

after lots and lots of jumps we managed to get on the air at the same time. the bottom right pic was our fav!

after tired of jumping i decided to do a portrait of danial by the window since the sky was so gloriously blue! I set the flash at camera left on full power, bounced off the ceiling with the reflector up. I metered for the sky so that the ambient was around -2 stops..if i’m not mistaken it was f/8 at 250 on iso 100 Danial was 100% exposed by the flash. I’m kinda hooked with this kind of lighting now..watch out for more in the near future! cheers..

~yours truly~

Last Satuday, we managed to run a photoshoot in conjunction with the Malaysian Student Society of Cardiff University’s annual event - Festival of Diversity V to promote the Malaysian Culture to the community in Cardiff. The 2 hour slot given to us was a bit tight but all in all I would say its a successful one! I had the privilege of working with Mr. Hail Taharudin on this assignment..and it was also the first time we worked in our official uniform as pictured below!

Hail during the test shot

this shot by Hail is one of my fav!

for more images on FOD V visit my web gallery here

Look out for us at other Malaysian Festival around the UK in the future! If you wish to book our mobile studio for your event/s please send us an email with your contact details and we’ll get back to you ASAP.

Cheers..
~yours truly~

Like I’ve mentioned in the previous post, my wife is sitting for her FRCR exam in 2 weeks time so I had to mind our boy to let her concentrate on her studies (I ended up taking danial to starbucks instead for a chai tea latte hahaha)

That’s Hila trying her best to answer the past questions!

and this is me doing my revision on off-camera lighting hehehe.

p/s: to my dear wife..Cammonn girl! I know you can do it!

~yours truly~

Yup..its golf. this was taken some 2 weeks ago and its the fourth time I played on the green and the first time playing 18 holes. It was a glorious day with loads of sunshine but a bad golf-day for me hahaha..everything was just not right period! the next day I went straight to the driving range and hit about 200 balls. I seriously think with a little more practice I can be good at this game. But at the moment, its 3 weeks full-time baby sitting for me as my missus is gearing up for one of her major exams. To my darling wife Hila…all the best! I know you can do it.

Standing from left to right: Faithal (the GURU), Nazri, Me and Hairul (my sparing partner)

p/s: There’s only 3 golf bags coz mine (well, actually I borrowed it off nazri) was a tripod as well hahaha..
~yours truly~