Category Archives: Photography

Ray of Light

February 10, 2012 – 2:08 am

In the urban jungle that we live in, its difficult to travel around, find a spot and start taking pictures of the natural surrounding. In most cases, we will only see buildings which we will appreciate its architecture in the day and be impressed by its lightings at night. But sometimes, these structures can also create certain effects when its blended well with the surroundings. Its just like the photo below which had the sunlight penetrating through the void area of the flyover. Its a simple photo and personally, I love the effect. Do you?

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A day at Pulau Ubin

February 4, 2012 – 1:29 am

In preparation for my departmental field trip to Chek Jawa, I made a trip first to Pulau Ubin to make the necessary arrangements for the event itself. I’ve been to Pulau Ubin a few times but each time I did not have the opportunity to explore Pulau Ubin. I’m usually there for leadership camp so its pretty rush each time trying to complete certain activity.

As I set foot at Pulau Ubin, I engaged the service of this uncle called Ah Tek, who drove us to Chek Jawa. There is not better person that hearing from the people of Ubin the happenings in Pulau Ubin. He showed us the last Malay village, tell us which resident whom we met along the way stayed where and the location where a local DJ Dennis Chew met with an accident.

He brought us to Chek Jawa and explained to us how to get a guide and where are the places to visit. As we were walking in, we saw 3 wild boars and he even told us the name of one of them, Meh Meh. In urban Singapore, you will hardly see these animals these days so we were alittle excited when we saw it.

It was past 5pm and he brought us to a jetty like area which were were able to see part of Chek Jawa. The weather and the surroundings was just pefect, it was beautiful.

As we were exiting Chek Jawa back to the Jetty, he stopped and showed us a quarry. It was like a heavenly place. The water was clear, the reflections of the water and everything we see were simply too beautiful to be true. I’m looking forward to my Chek Jawa trip in mid-February.

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Beautiful night at Marina Barrage

February 1, 2012 – 11:55 pm

Sometimes my job brings me to places at the most unexpected time. Tonight, I’ve got to visit Marina Barrage to prepare for a function on Friday and so far, I’ve only been to that place in the day or early evening but never at night. It was windy and quiet, there isn’t much people around, probably because its a weekday.

As I enter, I saw the fountain with colourful lighting. There were a number of people who were trying to capture shots of the fountain.

As you walk up to the roof of the barrage, you will be welcome by the spectacular Singapore city skyline.

If you have time, you might want to visit Marina Barrage at night and re-discover the beauty of Singapore again.

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Raffles Place in Black and White

August 6, 2011 – 8:46 am

Whenever I’m on leave, its not time for me to rest but rather, its time for me to run errands. There isn’t much difference today since I took the opportunity to get a haircut (just before my stylist go for her maternity leave) and clear my bills. Due to the high parking cost, I decided to park my car somewhere and had the opportunity to walk around Raffles and re-discover some of the skyscrapers in Black and White.

Along the way, I re-discovered, One Raffles Place, formerly known as OUB Building.

Just outside Raffles Place MRT Station, I took the shot of Hitachi Tower and its nearby building.

Sometimes, when life is alittle more relax, we will be able to discover and explore more things.

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Marina Bay Sands Skypark – A different experience for every visit

February 13, 2011 – 11:27 am

I’ve made my 5th visit yesterday since the opening of the Skypark last year. Every visit that I’ve made seems to be a different experience. I still remember during my first visit that there were no F&B outlets at the skypark itself and there were several developments around the Marina Bay area. Up till today, some of the developments at Fullerton and Marina Bay Financial Centre has been completed and Gardens By The Bay is slowly shaping out.

Workers were busy putting finishing touches to the soon-to-be open Art Science Museum.

When you are at the skypark, you must visit the Infinity Pool, the highest swimming pool in Singapore.

My previous visit to the skypark was at most 30 to 45 minutes. But this time, I stayed on for approximately 2 hours. So I managed to see the Singapore city skyline in the day and in the night. When the lights were on, the scene was just BEAUTIFUL!

As, it was the Chingay Parade last night, we managed to catch a glimpse of it from the skypark. But what I really do like was the changing colours of the Singapore Flyer.

I’m looking forward to my next visit at the Skypark.

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What do you see?

January 26, 2011 – 11:54 pm

I was stuck in a jam this morning while going to class. The traffic was basically at a standstill (my car didn’t move at all for about 3 minutes) and so I thought it was the best chance to take a photo of a building from another angle.

If I don’t tell you that this is Marina Bay Sands, will you think it is? I thought this photo was pretty obvious, but maybe I’m the photographer that’s why I think so. Here are some comments that my friends left on my Facebook,

So what do you think this is? Share with me your thoughts.

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Family Photo – 2010 Edition

November 7, 2010 – 10:43 pm

Since 2008, we’ve been taking family photo shoot at the studio. I think that this is the best way for us to document the developments in our family. In 2008 and 2009, both were complimentary photo shoots, those that call you to inform you that you’ve been selected for complimentary photo shoot, when you’ve taken the photos, they will try to sell their package to you. In 2008, we negotiated and managed to get some of the pictures for about $200 and in 2009, we failed the negotiation and managed to get 2!

In 2010, since there was no phone call, I decided that we should carry on with this family tradition and started to look for a photographer. I chance upon this photography studio called Bambini Photography. I was initially quite skeptical when I read that we got to do our own make up and after I’ve visited their studio to make the payment, but still, decided to give it a try.

After seeing the photos, I’m really satisfied with the final product and did not regret it at all. Its really important for the photographer to understand the children and I think the photographer, Nigel, had did it. Minimum make up, natural lighting and getting the children into enjoying the entire session. If you are interested, you can visit Bambini Photography website for more details.

So how much have we changed over the past 3 years? Here’s a compilation.

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Chinatown Light Up 2010

January 24, 2010 – 9:37 am

Chinese New Year is about 3 weeks away and Chinatown is a definitely must go during this period of time. Its not about buying things there, but to enjoy the festive mood. It was the Chinese New Year Light Up on Saturday (23 January) and I thought, it was pretty disappointing.

I thought the organizers could have had performers that can engaged the audience, they should not concentrate the performances to just the stage area, if they want, they could have put up more screens for the crowd to watch. There were no fireworks, but just fire crackers and everyone just left after the fire crackers. I thought the lightings this year were simply boring and they actually recycled the God of Fortune that they used last year.

Performances

You will have to walk around the street bazaar to enjoy the festive mood. There are the usual mochi, dried food and Chinese New Year decorations.

Chinatown Street Bazaar

You can go to the Gallery section to view the full set of pictures.

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Another perspective

October 10, 2009 – 11:49 pm

I’ve been taking pictures of Ethan and Ezanne and today, I was experimenting taking Ezanne with a brand new perspective, real close up shots. I thought the pictures turn out pretty well and well, I’ve only taken 3 shots of it. I shall try this new close up method with Ethan soon.

10 October 2009

I’m still exploring my camera and I hope one day, I’ll be able to take really nice shots.

You can view the full set of pictures @ my Facebook.

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East Coast Park

September 6, 2009 – 12:16 am

Eversince I’ve gotten my DSLR, I’ve always wanted to find a day, walk around somewhere and take some really nice and good photos. Then when i bought my camera, I thought everything will turn out really well, like taking close up shots, then 1 day, I realised that I was actually wrong, I need to buy new lens for those extra close up shots. Anyway, I thought my photography skills is still amatuer at this stage and there’s still so much more room for improvement.

Anyway, talking about finding a day to walk around and take pictures, I’ve finally found that day, which is SATURDAY! I was supposed to meet my classmates for a short gathering at East Coast Lagoon Food Centre so I purposely arrive about 1 hour earlier (supposedly to be 2 hours, but I overslept) to go around East Coast to take pictures. What I can say is that alot has changed at East Coast, there is now an Xtreme Skate Park which was really impressive. I’ve seen kids as young as 5 to 6 years old doing skateboard stunts and rollerblading within the skate park, then there was a sandcastle workshop which was conducted by a company who had an office on the beach itself. Finally, there was the jet ski lagoon which looks interesting too.

East Coast Park

Just before I met up with my friends, I took sometime on the beach and did something really special for my wife. She was not with me, but I thought, she should be touched by looking at the picture! It’s dedicated for you, my wife, Jingyi.

Dedication to Jingyi