Category: Candid

Candid, people photography

The Little Water Guru


Taken at the Bugis Junction fountain featured in the previous shot, this boy was also having fun with the water. At one moment in time, he decided to play-act as a master/guru of the waters. He sat on his knees in a meditative pose and pretended to raise the waters with his mind power, oblivious to this photographer who was busy snapping pictures of him 😛

“Don’t you think we’re drenched enough?”

Finally, a new picture in quite some months!

Given the hot weather here in Singapore, the outdoor fountain at Bugis Junction has always been a welcome place among children for great cooling fun, and especially so this week since it is school vacation time. I have always wanted to take pictures of children enjoying themselves there but have never really gotten the time to go down to do so… till yesterday. This is the first of a series of shots I took.

Exposure information: Canon 20D with Sigma 70-200mm f/4-5.6 APO II Super Macro lens, Aperture – f/8.0, Shutter – 1/60s, ISO – 200, Aperture Priority Mode, Flash – off

摸不着头脑

More pictures from the archives…

In Chinese phonetics, the title of the above reads as “Mo Bu Zhao Tou Nao”. I think this is the second ever picture I have titled in Chinese. Literally it means: “Unable to feel the brain”. Figuratively, this means being unable to grasp the situation, or unable to make head or tail of the on-goings. Caught this at a Hari Raya Haji prayer session at the Yio Chu Kang stadium more than a year ago. Thought that the scene told a humourous story 🙂