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Wilson Wong

Wilson is a self-taught photographer whose passion starts with his father's old Canon L (Leica mount) Rangefinder camera. Since then he has taken photos with Canon EOS film cameras, various brands digital SLRs, self-assembled 35mm compact camera & twin lens reflex cameras LOMO camera, Fujifilm S5 Pro and the X series. He was also involved in doing product reviews including camera product testing with Singapore's main English newspaper The Straits Times' Digital Life weekly IT magazine that includes cameras from Leica, Sony, Ricoh and Panasonic Lumix. He is currently a gadget and imaging reviewer for Techngoondu.com, one of the premier IT news and reviews site started by former the Singapore IT Industry's veteran Journalists. Some of his works are published in calendars, exhibitions both local and overseas such as Causeway EXchange and selected as Nikon Editor's choice. His recent work was also used in Sport Singapore’s commemorative book on the 2015 SEA Games where he was the lead photographer for the hockey tournament. He was also one of the first photographers being selected as Fujifilm X-Photographers for 4 years and was invited to participate in Samsung’s NX Traveller Program to Australia in 2014 and then to Korea in 2015 as a mentor photographer. His travel photos in Australia and Japan was also picked by StarHub Passionate in photography, he was the founder of the now 9500+ strong Singapore Photography Interest Network (SPIN), a founding member of the National Trade Union Congress Youth Chapter's Photography group 20/20 and Monash University's Photography Club at Caulfield Campus where it grew to become the second largest student group after the Student Union. The one genre that Wilson is interested in would be travel photography that would include street photography, food, candid portraiture, and landscape. He has participated in familiarisation trips conducted by Tourism organisation worldwide. He organises photography photo walks in Singapore as well as overseas trips to under the WilzWorkz's "Travel Thru' The Lens" Series where he blogs his trips at WilzWorkz.com. He conducts workshops and clinics prior to the trips to fully engage the participants and help them improve their photography on one-on-one basis, groups both private and in corporate settings.Here are some of the milestones: https://wilzworkz.wordpress.com/wilzworkz-the-man-behind-the-lens/milestones/