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About us -
Professional Digital Imaging Information
Workshop Singapore
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 Professional Photography Digital Imaging Information Workshop
in Singapore by Nature @ Work .
Digital imaging information
professional
photography Singapore
John
is currently Olympus Singapore E-system visionary.
John's
work had appeared in newspapers, magazines, calendar and
television. He has participated in
nature photography workshop at the Brooks Institute
of Photography in USA and BBC Wildlife Photo
Symposium in London.
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Clients that John has
provided his photography services include:
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National Parks Board,
Singapore
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Sentosa Island Resort,
Singapore
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Singapore Zoological
Garden/ Night Safari
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Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
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ACE Training Pte
Ltd, Singapore
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MDIS Singapore
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World Vision
International Regional Tsunami Response Team
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Olympus Imaging Singapore
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Operation Wallacea,
UK, (bird expedition in Sulawesi Indonesia)
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Primary and secondary school
and junior colleges in
Singapore
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Tourism Departments
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Corporations
including bank and insurance companies
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Our missions
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After working for 20
years in the IT industry and multi-nationals, John decided to take his
work experience and passion for nature by linking the like minded people
around the world who love nature and photography by using the internet and
the world wide web to promote nature awareness in Asia through
photography.
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John shared his
experience through regular Weekend Photography Workshops in Singapore.
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He has conducted
public forum (including schools from primary to Junior college) on
nature and digital photography.
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He has also shared
his experience through article write up in magazines, nature program on
TV and his images in photo
exhibitions.
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His participants are
from all walks of life from young kids to lawyers, doctors, CEOs, not only
from Singapore but also from Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand, India, UK and
South Africa.
John's work has appeared in :
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Asian Geographic
Magazine
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Photovideo-I magazine,
Singapore
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Olympus Singapore
advertisements
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The Silkwinds
magazine ( Airline Magazine for the Silk Air )
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The IRIS ( magazine
of the nature group of the Royal Photography Society in UK )
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The Nature Watch (
the magazine for the nature society in Singapore )
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The Hemispheres
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The Hemispheres Kids
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Nature photography has been John's
passion and hobby since 1980. It all started in Oregon, USA where he
was on an overseas assignment for a year when he met other professional
photographers.
 He started to share his techniques and passion for nature
photography by lecturing on nature photography since 1987. He had
taught for more than 8 years at the National University
of Singapore Extra-mural Department and spoke in many events
over the years. John has
traveled to various parts of the
Indonesia archipelagos, joined Operation Wallacea Bird Expedition in
Sulawesi, visited Ujung Kulon National Park in West Java and made several trips to Taman Negara
and Fraser's Hill in West Malaysia. He has recently traveled to
Southern India Sarawak & Sabah East Malaysia to document the birds of Borneo. His interest has been in
photographing the tropical rain forest of South East Asia.
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PHOTO GALLERY
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John traveled to
various parts of Asia. He visited
Kanha and Bandhavgarh National Park in Central India for their
tigers (Asian Geographic 11/2007). Sabah and Sarawak Malaysia for
their national
parks ( Photo Video I 8/2006). Nagahore, Bandhiphur, Mudumalai
,and Anamalai
in Southern India for their wildlife (Nature Watch 9/2004).Ginger's
Bites (Asian
Geograhic 4/2007)
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PHOTOGRAPHING TIGER IN INDIA
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Many people dreamed about traveling to exotic places. Our dream
came true when we visited Central India in March 2007 tracking
tigers. Searching
for pugmarks, keeping our
eyes for sign of dragged killing
and listening to alarm calls. We stayed at the Taj Wilderness Resort
which was voted one of the top 100 hotels in the world. Here is an audio interview with
Radio Singapore International
with John
( Click on the
MP3 ). See John's
tiger exhibition during Miss Earth Singapore event
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Tiger photo
exhibition . Here are some tips
for those who wish to photograph tigers in
the wild.
How to
photograph tiger ? You will be enlightened and
amazed by the beautiful wild tigers in India.
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Asian Geographic Magazine-
Picturesque
Flights of nature. Capturing nature in all its diversity
in order to understand it. February 2007 issue.
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 Asian
Geographic
Magazine NO 41/
Issue February 2007
In this issue of Asian Geographic Magazine, John
shared with readers his collection of photographs from all over
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 Spectacular
Sunset at Bako National Park in Sarawak over looking the Santubong
peninsula located at the West Mouth of the Sarawak River. |
Mangrove sunset at the Bako National
Park in Sarawak.
This picture was taken with wide angle from the ground looking up. I
called it
crab's-eye view of the mangrove. |
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Recent event- Ginger The spice of
life
Gorgeous Ginger Through The Camera Lens presented by
John Arifin
for the 4th International Ginger Symposium
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4th
International Symposium on the family Zingiberaceae Singapore
3-6 July 2006 Singapore Botanic Gardens. John's story on ginger was
published in Asia Geographic
Magazine in
2007
Ginger is one of the wondrous inhabitants of the
rain forest. Not only the ginger flowers are so vibrant, colourful
and intricate, the roots are edible and have vital ingredients for
authentic food all across Asia. |
Yet you don't see gingers being presented and portrayed in their
most photogenic ways. They are either dried up specimens, dead or
worst still all chopped up. If they are alive, their flowers are
always overpowered by the electronic flash light from the camera so
that the entire ambient become totally nocturnal or pitched dark.
How can we depict ginger in a more gingerly and amicable way so that
we can bring the beauty of the species into the realm of the
majestic rainforest in its original glorious habitat or in the
grandeur of the tropical garden or simply put, just like the way
gingers spice up out food? |
The vibrant colours, the
intricate flowers of the gingers and their natural habitats will be
presented by John Arifin, who is a nature photographer and ginger
enthusiast. He traveled and photographed gingers in South East Asia.
Through his camera lens, he will show how gorgeous ginger could be.
John presenting at the 4th Ginger
Symposium Singapore. A0 size print
on Costus Spaciosus. |
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Miss Earth Singapore 2006
Green & glamour, beauty pageant with a difference
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Ms Alexandra Braun (Venezuela ), Ms Earth 2005 visited Singapore in November
2006 . The Miss Earth Singapore pageant took place at the Marina Mandarin Hotel.
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" Miss Earth contest seeks to make a difference by endeavoring
its core values to that of raising the level of environmental awareness and
sustainable development. Committed to generating awareness and conservation "
said Howard Shaw, Chief Executive Singapore
Environmental Council.
John Arifin presented his collection of photographs on
environment that evening to depict the beauty of nature
and to stress the need to conserve.
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Birding Indonesia
Sulawesi Indonesia -Bird Expedition, Operation Wallacea
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We visited the northern part of the island near the town of Manado
and the southern island of Boton. The photo above shows the very
inviting crystal clear water in the little island near Buton. |
The endemic Red-knobbed Hornbill was photographed near Tangkoko / Nusadua Nature
Reserve. One of the two more spectacular species that can be found in
Sulawesi. Weights about 2 kg. One of the largest of the 53 species in the world. |
The Black-naped Fruit Dove is seen above in the open habitat.The
island of Sulawesi in Indonesia is a fascinating place to explore the wildlife
of the Indonesian archipelago.
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More birds of
Sulawesi coming soon in the photo gallery. |
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Olympus E-system D-SLR camera
Olympus
E-system .
Product launch in Singapore & Malaysia
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The Olympus E-500 was world's lightest
digital SLR when launched with 8 mega pixel.
John Arifin joined the launching of the Olympus E-500 in Kuala
Lumpur & Penang in Malaysia with Tan Tick Boon, Managing Director &
Yong Kee Nyap, Division Manager of Olympus (Malaysia) Sdn.
Bhd.
The Olympus E-500
was launched all across Asia along with various Zuiko digital
lenses. |
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re Expedition with John Arifin
Olympus digital E- Nature Expedition
with John Arifin
in Singapore
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This
is a digital camera outing for Olympus digital SLR users in
Singapore conducted by John Arifin. The Singapore photo outing is
normally organized on weekend. You can learn valuable short cuts,
acquire digital photography practical tips, learn how to use the camera all
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guidance of professional & experienced workshop leader.
You get to ASK questions
You get to SEE actual demo & LEARN
You get to TRY your new skills and technique using Olympus equipment.
Get
the most out of your Olympus digital-SLR camera and have fun.
If you are confused about for example what is resolution, JPEG,
TIFF, RAW, file compression, noise reduction NR or antishake,
auto flash mode or slow synch mode ?
Don't worry, you may be
not be the only person asking
those questions. There are others
like you. |
To sign up, please contact Olympus Imaging Singapore if you own an
Olympus D-SLR camera. |
Click here to see more on Olympus
Nature Expedition. |
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John's involvement with nature photography
since 1987 world wide
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UK, London 1994
BBC
Wildlife Photography Symposium,
(From left to
right)
Thomas
Mangelsen- Winner of BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1994. A friend
from India. John Arifin ARPS, Brian Kenney -Runner Up Animal Portraits. Mary Ann McDonald- Winner of Animal Behavior and Endangered
Wildlife. Joe
McDonald, author of "The Complete Guide To Wildlife Photography".
Joe and Mary Ann McDonald visited
Singapore in April 2004 to conduct photography workshop. |
Santa Barbara ,USA,1992
Brooks Institute of Photography
An Accredited Institution and World Leader in Professional Photographic
Education
Workshop leader John Shaw
Hailed by American Photographer
as "the master of the close-up "and the author of "The
Nature Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Field
Techniques."
Participants
in Mastering Nature Photography Field Techniques. John Arifin, second from
left in the front row.
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Heather
Angel
Heather is the past President of the Royal Photographic
Society Nature Group and author of many books on photographic
techniques, natural history and gardening topics.
South East Asia Nature Photography Tour, 2002
Tropical
Rainforest Photography Trip
Endau
Rompin National Park in Johor State Malaysia with Heather Angel ( in vest
third from left ) ,Francis Cheong (Johor Park Corporation,
Interpretive Officer, in black shirt ), Shermain Tan (MNS Johor Branch
officer, in white T-shirt ). John Arifin ( first on the left in leech
socks) . We were on the way up
to photograph the endemic Fan Palm Livingstona
endauensis.
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Selected
Nature History Article Written by John Arifin |
A short excerpt from
the article........ |
Publsiher |
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Though we did not manage to spot the elusive
endangered one-horn Javan rhino, we saw wild
peacocks, hornbills, Javan Wild ox grazing even
an indolent python at close range at Ujung Kulon
National Park on the western extremity of Java
Island of Indonesia |
Nature Watch
Singapore
July/September 1994 |
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Many of us would have encountered fungi in our
lives either through our favorite cream of
mushroom soup or the moulds that grow on a piece
of stale bread. Fungi is defined as a simple
fast-growing type of plant such as mushroom or
mould....... |
The
Hemisphere Kid
Volume 5 2003
Singapore
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The Tropical Rain forest- The vast greenery of
the rain forest intertwined with various
emergent trees, climbers, strangling figs,
lianas and undergrowth is nothing but a lump of
vegetation to some. To a trained eye though, it
is a way of life where many different
species of plants.... |
The Iris Winter 2001
Magazine of the Nature Group of The Royal
Photography Society
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Dazzled by slides of deer, monkeys and exotic
beetles, workmates told John Arifin that he
lives life to the fullest through his nature
photography. Through the years, his camera
skills have grown, taking him places and
teaching him things which have given him a
different out look of life |
Directions
The Business Magazine
May/June 1996
Article by Pauline Tan |
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Manado is famous for its diving with the island
of Baneken and its spectacular underwater world
just next to it. But how many have heard of
Tongkoko Nature Reserve about 2 hours drive from
Manado ?
The Red Knobbed Hornbill, Tarsier, Sulawesi
Black crested Macaques and Black Cuscus were
some of the animals we encountered... |
SilkWinds
December 1995
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See other nature events in South East Asia on
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