GADONG, Wednesday 12 Sept 2013 – Fifteen personnel from the Ministry of Defence (MinDef) received their certificates after completing a four-day digital photography training course organised by the Seameo Voctech Regional Centre in Gadong.

Presenting the certificates at the “Getting Professional with Digital Photography” closing ceremony was guest of honour Col (L) Haji Aznan bin Haji Julaihi, who is the Director of Personnel.


Centre Director for Seameo Voctech, Haji Mohd Sharifuddin bin Haji Mohd Salleh, lauded MinDef’s initiative to train its personnel to acquire professional skills in photography.

“MinDef and the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) are major contributors to the nation’s history.  ”Stories of our national events and the exploits of your organisations will always be written in the annals of our nation’s history.

“Your photographs of these major events in the life of our nation could be the vivid representations that our future generation can use to connect their distant past,” he said.

Yesterday’s event also saw a photo critique session presented by one of the course trainers, Marie Cyrene De Guzman.


Courtesy of the Borneo Bulletin