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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

My Paris Trip Photobook

I remember I went to Paris one week before Valentine's day because I wanted to observe how romantic Parisian can be. Haha... Anyhow, they didn't disappoint me. Those romantic architectures, sculptures and paintings are really amazing and impressed me :) And they brought out the artistic side of me too. I spent a few hours viewing those awesome paintings which I never thought of I would be interested. I even bought the quite expensive book that explains the art collections in Louvre Museum. If I have the budget now, I would like to fly there and meet my friend who working temporarily there...

Paris is my first priority dream place to visit and I'm glad that my dream is fulfilled. Although this is only 2 days short trip, but I took a lot pictures that can be published as a photobook :P Since Paris is well known to be related to romance and I went there during Valentine's day period, therefore I designed this photobook in love theme :P Hope you don't feel it is too childish... Haha...

Details of this photobook:

Size - 6” x 8”
Orientation - Landscape
Cover Material - Cheap 'n' Chic Softcover (Gloss Lamination)
Content Paper Material - Art Paper 150gsm with Gloss Lamination
Total Content Pages - 40
Printing Service Company - Pixajoy

Front Cover - I like this pyramid design of Louvre Museum
Content Page - Had a 4 and half hours steady and smooth ride with Thalys train took from Cologne, Germany
Content Page - Spent a night in this expensive 3 star Hotel - Pavillon Montaigne Hotel during weekend.
Content Page - First time I'd ever seen electronic car called 'Cactus' by Citreon
Content Page - Heavy snow during Seine River Cruise trip, the snow even flew to my camera's lens :(
Content Page - Seine River Cruise Trip - Nobody wanted to go to the deck as the weather was too chilling! In order to take nice photos, I'd got no choice to go there and I was taking the pictures while my hands were shaking :S
Content Page - Seine River Cruise Trip - Finally I got a picture of myself with Eiffel Tower!! But only half of the tower, as it was quite hard to take the full picture of the tower on the cruise =.=
Content Page - LV shop at Champs-Élysées street, nice Valentine's day window decoration. But I got no interest to enter to the shop :P
Content Page - Me with Arc De Triomphe at Champs-Élysées street. Thanks to the Hong Kong guy tourist who helped me took this beautiful photo, like it very much :)
Content Page - Place de la Concorde - Many beautiful sculptures on the street
Content Page - Jardin Des Tuileries park - Like the carousel, the lights seems so 'Fairy Tale' :P
Content Page - Went into one of the souvenir shop and the shop keeper thought I'm a Japanese, she said 'Arigato' to me! Maybe a lot Japanese tourists like to travel to Paris...
Content Page - The Opera Palais Garnier - I feel this opera house is very grand!!
Content Page - Day 2 - To visit Louvre Museum. Breakfast at hotel - French toast was really tasty which can't compare to others...
Content Page - Louvre Museum - Luckily I reached there very early and avoided the long queue. Had extra time to take photos outside Louvre Museum too :) Found a Japanese gal tourist to help me take photo with Louvre Museum, but I looked too tiny...
Content Page - Louvre Museum - Many famous sculptures are kept in this museum
Content Page - Louvre Museum - The most famous painting - Mona Lisa
Content Page - Louvre Museum - More beautiful paintings, they looks very real
Content Page - Louvre Museum - Filtered out some paintings which I like :)
Content Page - Louvre Museum - Napoleon III Apartments
Content Page - Louvre Museum - Big cupid romantic sculpture!!
Content Page - Champs-Élysées street - Farewell to Paris!! So reluctant to leave there...
Back Cover - Spotted a tourist bus with Swatch Valentine's day advertisement in front of Arc De Triomphe

Dedicate this romantic song - Selina - Dreaming of You ♫ that I like to hear before sleep for this post (After hearing it, I can get better sleep :P):
Coming soon (Last photobook for now) - My Hat Yai Trip Photobook

Friday, January 25, 2013

My Angkor Wat Trip Photobook

Time flies... So fast it passed one month after last year's Christmas... Oh, my memory still stuck at last year's Christmas! :( I wish time can fast forward till my next coming travel trip... (But I will be growing older very soon, I have complicated mind :S)

This Angkor Wat trip is happened since 4 years ago, after viewing the photos, I feel that I became old too fast :( Anyway, it is still a good memory especially traveled together with my friend :) Although my outlook became old, I wish I can still stay young at my heart as long as I can...

I tried to design this book with ancient look theme to match with Angkor Wat's architectures. Since the size of this book is smaller, I spent some time to think about how to fit the photos nicely with a smaller page size. The end result is quite satisfied :) Sharing here with some of the details of the book.

Details of this photobook:

Size - 6” x 8”
Orientation - Landscape
Cover Material - Cheap 'n' Chic Softcover (Gloss Lamination)
Content Paper Material - Art Paper 150gsm with Gloss Lamination
Total Content Pages - 40
Printing Service Company - Pixajoy

Front Cover - Beautiful reflection of Angkor Wat on the lake
Content Page - Arrived at Siem Reap Airport
Content Page - My younger days (4 years ago...); I like my 'Music Save My Life' T-shirt, no music no life! If no music in my life, I will be bored until die...
Content Page - Les Artisan D'Angkor - Handicraft center for the wood and stone carving
Content Page - Day 2 - Picture taken in the hotel while waiting for tour guide to bring us to visit Angkor Wat
Content Page - The South Gate of Angkor Thom
Content Page - The South Gate of Angkor Thom, very beautiful entrance
Content Page - Bayon Temple
Content Page - Another must not miss photo shooting spot
Content Page - Elephant and Leper King Terrace
Content Page - The tree roots are swallowing the temple!
Content Page - Banteay Srei temple - Built by women and for women to stay too...
Content Page - More beautiful cravings at Banteay Srei temple
Content Page - Finally I reached here - Angkor Wat!
Content Page - (Left page) Inside Angkor Wat! We were nearly got lost due to too many nice pictures to take, and tour guide didn't notice that we were not following closely :S... (Right page) Climb up Bakheng Hill for half an hour to view beautiful sunset
Content Page - (Left page) Nice sunset at Bakheng Hill temple (Right page) Day 3 - After breakfast at hotel, we were going the largest lake in South East Asia - Tonle Sap Lake
Content Page - Waiting for flight departure to home... Bye Siem Reap!
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

My Macau & Hong Kong Trip Photobook

Recently I feel so bored with my routine life. Everyday just the same activities - eating, working, sleeping and etc... This feeling is getting stronger especially when I browsed back to my previous trips photobooks... Haha... I wish I could plan a solo trip and escape to somewhere else, but at the moment I'm lacking of budget... So this plan might only be fulfilled in my dream... Sigh :(

Never mind, by looking back to this most recent Macau & Hong Kong trip photobook can let me reminisce some happy and wonderful moments :) During this trip, I took too many photos and spent some time to filter out the photos to be published on this book. Since I got no more idea of what kind of theme of this book should be, therefore I just simply picked the purple background =.= (I'm very lazy :P)

Details of this photobook:

Size - 8.5” x 11”
Orientation - Landscape
Cover Material - Image Wrap Hardcover with Protective Lamination (Matte Lamination)
Content Paper Material - Art Paper 150gsm with Matte Lamination
Total Content Pages - 40
Printing Service Company - Pixajoy

Front Cover - Mix with 2 Macau's photos and 2 Hong Kong's photos
Content Page - Day 1: Arrived Hong Kong and transferred to Macau
Content Page - The Venetian Macao Resort
Content Page - Day 2: Walked around Macau world heritage streets and Macau Fisherman's Wharf
Content Page - Macau world heritage buildings
Content Page - Macau world heritage buildings
Content Page - Ruins of St. Paul's
Content Page - Day 3: Back to Hong Kong
Content Page - Langham Place shopping mall
Content Page - Went to Avenue of Stars to view Symphony of Lights at 8 pm
Content Page - Day 4: Disneyland Hong Kong (My favourite place!!)
Content Page - I miss Mickey & Minnie... Also the Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland Hong Kong
Content Page - Many nice shows in Disneyland Hong Kong
Content Page - Beautiful fireworks at night in Disneyland Hong Kong
Content Page - Day 5: Ocean Park, The Peak and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Content Page - Hong Kong Ocean Park
Content Page - Hong Kong Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Content Page - Day 6: Wong Tai Sin temple, Snoopy's World and Hong Kong Space Museum
Content Page - Went to many places in a day during Day 6 trip
Content Page - Day 7: Ngong Ping 360 and Citygate Outlets
Content Page - Day 7: Ngong Ping 360
Content Page - Time Square shopping mall and Lan Kwai Fong
Content Page - Day 8: Goldfish street, Flower market and 100 years before the birth of Doraemon Exhibition
Content Page - 100 years before the birth of Doraemon Exhibition
Content Page - Goodbye Hong Kong...
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