Peter Sanders [ Photographer ]

Peter Sanders began his career in the mid 1960s as one of London's key photographers of rock musicians. His pictures of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Who and many others performing are classics of the genre.

In 1970, he set off for India, cameras in hand. He travelled for seven months. This trip became a spiritual odyssey that led him onto Morocco and thereafter to the Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, where he photographed the hajj, at a time when few professional photographers had access to Islam's holiest sanctuaries.

For the last two years, Peter Sanders Photography began the immense task of scanning and thus digitalizing his vast collection of over a quarter of a million transparencies to create islamicimages.com which will be the first on-line website dedicated to the Islamic world. Once it is launched, historical and other important collections will be added. Estimated launch date  2013.

http://www.petersanders.co.uk/ (for his work / online portfolios)

Vassilis Tangoulis - an art photographer (black and white)

Vassilis Tangoulis leads a double carrier as an academic teacher-Lecturer  and a fine art photographer. He is a physicist working in the Chemistry department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and  despite his full time carrier has also found success following his lifetime passion of photography. He has been a recipient of international award for his Black and White long exposure work.

Photography is a 4D object leaving its footprint, its “trace,” in a 2D layer. When this happens for a 3D object, it is easy for a mind to visualize its 3D morphology. In order to envision a 4D object, however, one needs the power of Fine Art photography.

Mediterranean sky

He was born in a small Greek town –Karpenisi surrounded by mountains and was really lucky to be a “village” boy. He had the opportunity to see sceneries that influenced his viewpoint and perspective and maybe unconsciously defined the absolute meanings of words like “sunset”, “snow”, and many others; all important ingredients of a landscape photographer. He left Karpenisi at the age of 11 and spent some 20 years in different towns and the last 10 years Vassilis lives in Patras, a beautiful town near the sea. Neutral density filters came into his life and a new surrealistic world has been revealed…From that moment he gives all his creativity to elaborate and explore this new world.

For him Fine Art photography is an alternative way to express a common subject so that each individual artist can reveal secret aspects about it. In order to do this, each artist experiments with light, time, and spatial coordinates– and then through one’s processing, one reveals a subject framed in a transformed world in which its dimensions can be easily described and visualized.
He always try to leave a message behind his photos. For him every photo has symbolic meanings and sometimes he leaves the symbols to speak for themselves but there are times he has to give a guidance and this is usually the title he chooses for a collection. He works with collections of photos (sets of 5 or more) and this because he always needs a concept when he takes photographs. Taking a photo is always a serious matter for him and if there is no concept or no message prefers to stay silent. After all Ansel Adams said it much better : “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

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Doc Ali Shamsul Bahar

Salah seorang jurugambar yang amat saya amati hasil nya yang amat mempersona dan begitu berseni penyampaian beliau. Walaupun saya sekadar di tepian; kian bermaksud tidak menggunakan kamera jenis dslr namun saya masih aktif berkamera jenis telefon (smartphones). Biarlah ianya tidak semahal mahupun tidak sama kualitas nya dengan DSLR tetapi saya tetap berpuas hati dengan penyampaian nya. 

Namun bukanlah tujuan saya untuk menerangkan ataupun membezakan produk seperti DSLR atapun smartphones, tujuan saya adalah idola iaitu Doc Ali Shamsul Bahar ataupun Doc.Ali yang begitu terkenal sekitar pantai timur, di Kuantan ini amnya. Hasil seni yang beliau hasilkan melalui seni fotografi membuat saya mengagumi beliau terutama nya hasil foto di Gunung Bromo, Indonesia. 

Hasil foto yang lain turut di jadikan sebagai garisan ataupun titik sandaran saya untuk lebih maju di dalam bidang fotografi ini, in shaa Allah jika di izinkan saya turut sama di dalam bidang yang amati. Untuk hasil Doc. Ali sila layari ke beliau. 

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Malaysia's King of Mini-Marts

Malaysia's King of Mini-Marts

There’s a Chinese belief that sons born in a Year of the Dragon are highly desirable because Dragons are powerful people who will lead extraordinary lives. This could explain wheelchair-bound Lee Thiam Wah, born in Dragon year 1964. In Klang, the bustling port city of Peninsular Malaysia, he’s called the King of Mini-Marts.

Streets there are replete with bold green-and-orange 99 Speedmart signs. For now Klang is where Lee has most of his 175 stores, which bring in better than $150 million annually and employ 2,000 people. This is a drop in the ocean compared with what hypermarkets and convenience stores like 7-Eleven do in Malaysia alone, but he is giving them a run for the money in this cutthroat business.

As a baby Lee was struck with polio and lost the use of his legs. His father, a construction worker, and his mother, who was a hawker, worked day and night to fend for 11 children. Six years of primary school was all they could afford for young Thiam Wah. To keep busy he read books borrowed from neighbors and sold snacks in a roadside stall. “I have to help myself. Nobody would hire me due to my physical limitation,” he says matter-of-factly. He did enjoy prodding from his paternal grandmother, who said to him in the old Chinese way of affirmation: “If you don’t work hard, what will you amount to?”

He saved $5,000 by age 23, enough to start a grocery. Thus began his retail education. He says, “I learned what customers buy. I know all the suppliers and their pricing. And I studied my competitors thoroughly.”

In 1992 Lee sold the business, and now with $88,000, he opened a mini-mart. He says, “I wanted the challenge of running a bigger business. If you don’t have scale you can’t compete with Chinese medicine halls on pricing, and you can’t compete with hypermarkets in terms of range.” In 1999 he changed the name of the store to 99 Speedmart.

Where closely held 99 Speedmart cannot undercut on price, it sells in smaller sizes. For fast-moving necessities Lee stocks for each price point–the closest comparison would be discount stores in the West like Aldi, where only products with the highest turnover are sold. Lee recalls, “For the first mini-mart we sacrificed margins on some products to sell at the lowest price and to gain market share. This built our reputation. The purchasing side of the business is very important, and I spend most of my time overseeing it.”

To get good discounts he makes things easy for suppliers. Big stores are notorious for dragging out payments. At 99 Speedmart, vendors can usually complete the process of negotiating price, getting the current order and collecting payment for an earlier order within 30 minutes. They appreciate Lee’s square dealings. “We’ve not lost sleep because we found him to be very honest, and he has a strong trade reputation,” says the national sales manager for a global food and beverage company that he didn’t want named.

Lee has always funded his operation from sales and not from bank debt, but the 1997 Asian financial crisis hit hard. To overcome, Lee stocked cheaper goods and shaved already razor-thin margins. Lee says the recent economic slowdown has been but a minor bump.

In fact, 99 Speedmart is now moving well beyond Klang, though it still largely targets lower-income and migrant worker groups. The plan is to open 40 to 50 outlets this year in high-density neighborhoods and to boost sales by 25%. In two years Lee may expand farther outside Selangor and Kuala Lumpur to neighboring states like Perak. He can’t afford to rest: 7-Eleven’s Malaysian franchisor is planning to open 2,000 stores nationwide in three years, half to be run by franchisees.

Lee pulled back from early franchising and owns all but one of the 99 Speedmarts. He watches the balance sheet by renting all his properties, however, save for two warehouses occupying a total of 5 acres.

This entrepreneur has become his country’s most notable example of how a physical handicap can be overcome in business.

Malaysia has grown more accommodating of the disabled through various regulations and benefits, but except for a small state allowance, Lee has made his own way. During the early years he relied on relatives to help carrying and weighing heavy items. He sees vendors when they visit or speaks by phone. “I don’t mull over the fact that I’m in a wheelchair, that I can’t speak English and that I only went to school for six years,” he says. “You have to be self-reliant. Sure, you have to work harder than anyone else, but the knowledge you gained will build up your self-esteem. Being of use to customers makes me feel grateful and gives me a sense of purpose.”

If those he does business with even know of his condition, Lee expects no special consideration. “As far as suppliers are concerned, it’s business as usual for them,” he says.

Wife Ng Lee Tieng, 15 years his junior, is his sounding board in business and in life. They met when she joined the company as a purchasing assistant, attracting him with her vivacious personality. He quips that she knew how to take care of things. Now she is also the mother of their two children.

In the Tiger year of 2010, Dragon people are fine, according to CLSA Hong Kong’s Feng Shui Index, an annual zodiac-inspired market outlook. It says “All signs point to steady inflows throughout the year, while patience and perseverance will bring unexpected satisfaction from work. Applying your renowned willpower will see you safely through any Tiger troubles.” Based on Lee Thiam Wah’s record so far, this is one horoscope that’s likely to hold true.

-Source of Forbes-