Zoomaa - A collection and a comment on pop-culture – focused on the many beautiful celebrities on screen or from other parts of the public scene. It will also be a place for unknown models and photographers around the world. He's interested in creative, sensual and original photos. Pictures that can give us a story about the model, the photographer or the city / country. - For full article please click here - " Tenashar broke up from a pleasant job as a broker in the financial world in Singapore, to follow her passion for photography and modeling. She is a creative and skilled photographer, and a professional and very beautiful model. Born and brought up in Singapore by a Euro-Asian father and a Chinese mother, but has lived the last years in Europe (Spain). Recently she returned to Singapore to work as a full time model in Asia. Her international background has made her multi-lingual, speaking English, Spanish, Mandarin and basic Italian. Her aim is always to try and create great photos – in front or behind the camera. She works hard to develop as a freelance photographer and catching the moments, the people, the lights and the colors. As a model she hopes to work with other creative artists and cooperate to exciting projects. She is definitely a top class model, and her mixed ethnic heritage makes her a very beautiful woman. Read more about the sensual and elegant Tenashar at Tenashar.Com"
Jay and I head down to abandoned, restricted army barracks. When it's 34°C outside, and you're in an enclosed hangar...it's bloody BLOODY warm. We went into the shoot thinking we were gonna do a fashiony pretty dressy shoot, but the thin little kimono Jay brought with him was a billion times more appealing in this weather. I know kimonos are normally worn with the bow at the back, but what the heck, let's just have it in front. Abandoned army barracks...didn't mean much to me till i got there and laying against the walls meant laying against green disgusting moss which got all over me, and carefully avoiding the spiders and cobwebs. We finally found an area of wall which was half decent and still allowed us to make use of the natural light. No lighting or reflectors were used for this shoot.I think Jay's just pure genius, we're definitely gonna do more shoots together :) Oh, uploading a couple of photos from this shoot got my facebook page suspended for a full hour!  Tenashar www.tenashar.com  Tenashar www.tenashar.com  Tenashar www.tenashar.com  Tenashar www.tenashar.com  Tenashar www.tenashar.com
 Leaving Sihanoukville with Ben and our blonde ponytailed boat captain.
Some companies/publications that have used Ben's work include Lonely Planet, NZ Ski, FHM Magazine, and a long list of others.
He's also had over 100 000 individual image licences sold.
 Lena hops onto the boat.  White sand and crystal clear waters of Koh Rong When you get to an untouched and secret island, it's great to suntan and run around in the nude...BUT a bitch to live on. A 4 hour boat through choppy waters off the gulf of Cambodia and hello beautiful tropical island Koh Rong! It's virtually untouched, which means no jetty! So grab your bags, get into the ocean and with your bags over your head army-style wade 10 minutes to shore. Not as easy as it sounds when you pack like me. My photographer dumps his camera equipment in a cooler box, swims to shore then makes another trip back to put his macbook into his backpack. uh oh. A drop in the sand banks has poor Ben, backpack and macbook completely soaked in sea water. But the sun's going down, let's shoot first and figure out if it's dead later. I love shooting with Ben. A wonderful person, a brilliant photographer and a great new friend. Chances of your camera getting wet when doing beach shoots are high. A wave hits the camera and it goes dead. So we call it a day and figure out a place to stay on the island. Sunset. We look for a hut to stay in for the night. This island has no electricity or running water, so we walk in darkness through jungle and over rocks with the help of a small torchlight. The owner of the huts tells us to please be careful of the snakes..the king cobras will move away from you but not the red poisonous snakes. Great. There we are finding our way in darkness and now i have "red poisonous snakes" repeating in my head.  We slept in a hut with no lights, no fan, no running water. All it had was 2 mosquito nets and mattresses. It's been 10 years since this city girl has slept without air conditioning, what more this.
 What's the worst thing that could happen after swimming from the boat, walking in darkness along the beach then through jungle to the hut? I had left something on the boat! So Ben being the great guy he is offered to go all the way back to the boat with me. Back on the red poisonous snake trail we were, the wind's howling and a storm is approaching. But i'm so thankful i forgot something on the boat. Walking along the pitch black beach we notice the shoreline glowing specks of green. Ben points out the glowing plankton and i'm staring in awe. It was just too surreal! It's so dark all we could see of the boat was a tiny blinking light. We start swimming and oh my god glowing green plankton everywhere! They glow when they are disturbed and Ben was darting around the water in front of me leaving a light trail...it looked like something out of a sci-fi movie. These were gazillions and gazillions of bioluminescent plankton! That scene from The Beach of the plankton with Leonardo Dicaprio was actually real! Gosh, one of the most beautiful moments in my life :) - more photos up soon -
 I couldn't bathe or do my makeup...so our sunrise shoot the next morning had to be done without any makeup on. Tenashar www.tenashar.com  there was a storm during the night and i love how the windy morning completely messed up my hair. Tenashar www.tenashar.com
I know not many girls would say ok to going off to Hong Kong or anywhere outside their country with someone they've never met. I had my best friend make me watch a bleedingly long video on Human Trafficking. But what the hell, i think i profile people well enough from a couple of exchanged emails to make decisions. Before i decided to live my passions of photography and modeling, i was a broker for a handful of years, so profiling people kind of became second nature to me. But no, i'm not giving a thumbs up to girls going off to different countries with strangers in hopes of a photoshoot, please don't. I take calculated risks, and i research too much before i pack my bags. One man's meat is another man's poison, my grandfather used to say. Well that's apparent when it comes to art. People of different countries and cultures have varied views on what they consider ideal based on the influences around them. And i'm open-minded enough to understand going to Hong Kong for a photoshoot would mean more 'cutesy' asian poses, so i tweaked my artistic preferences for this photoshoot ;) I think my photographer Samuel Lee did a great great job, thanks Samuel! Oh, i overdosed on bubble tea with tapioca noodles in Hong Kong by the way. when a hotel provides you with the ugliest polka dotted orange couch for a shoot, open your aperture to as wide as you can and kill the ugly couch by blurring it all ;) Tenashar www.tenashar.com  Tenashar www.tenashar.com  Tenashar www.tenashar.com  Tenashar www.tenashar.com
No, i'm not gonna tell you about what new nail colour i've just had done, or what food i just ate, or even about the pretty new bag i just bought. I'm more interested in the real substance of life. Be it a life-changing experience, the secrets behind photography that i will spill, or something that stops me dead in my tracks, like a midnight ocean swim off the gulf of Cambodia surrounded by gazillion and gazillions of bioluminescence plankton, just like a scene out of The Beach, minus the f*cking and making out aspect of course. But i'll get to that later. And as i'm losing my virginity for blogging, i'm gonna talk a bit about one of my favourite photos, done by a good friend and awesome photographer Leng Keong: (please view pic caption)  this photo might look like i'm laying beside a window and the natural light is bouncing off my face and hair. But this great back-lit shot actually has me laying right beside this huge soft box light, im literally laying 2cm from it. So if you ever want to recreate this shot, there you go. Tenashar www.tenashar.com
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