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One of my proudest professional achievements is the partnership I have been fortunate enough to cultivate with Nikon Singapore over the past seven years.

In 2004, I made the leap from film to digital photography when I purchased a Nikon D70, my first-ever DSLR camera. Around this time, I met with a marketing executive from Nikon Singapore and learned about Focus magazine, a publication produced by Nikon for owners of their photographic equipment.  Shortly thereafter, I was profiled -- along with a selection of my photography -- in an issue of Focus; this marked the beginning of my relationship with Nikon.

Since then, my photography business has grown significantly, due in large part to Nikon Singapore's ongoing support.  A few years ago, Nikon Asia-Pacific honoured me as “One of Asia’s Finest Photographers” and, shortly thereafter, Nikon Singapore named me -- along with five other Singapore-based photographers: Stefen Chow, C.S. Ling, Alex Soh, Alan Lim and Imrah Ahmad -- as a Nikon Professional Photographer and ambassador for the Nikon brand in Singapore.

Nikon provides me with both photographic equipment and technical support; they have sponsored many of my photography exhibitions and a documentary

film I collaborated on with my friend and creative partner, Mike Rogers.  In return, it is my pleasure to support Nikon whenever possible.  I have spoken at seminars and workshops on behalf of the brand, provided photographs for Nikon camera advertisements and appeared as a guest judge on the past two seasons of the Nikon-sponsored reality television series, The Big Shot.

Our latest collaboration is a wall mural that appears in the lobby of the Nikon office in Singapore.  Featuring a single photograph from each of the Nikon Professional Photographers, the mural showcases both the talent and the breadth of the ambassadors' photographic styles. I am proud that my image, "Closing Time" -- which I made in Dili, Timor-Leste last year -- shares space on the wall of the Nikon office in Singapore.