Category: Candid

Candid, people photography

Life’s But A Walking Shadow




Macbeth by William Shakespeare was my examination text in Literature when I did my GCE ‘O’ Levels some 15 years ago. I am surprised by how vividly I can still recall passages from it up till now (listening to a taped version of the play daily while preparing for the ‘O’ Level examination then probably contributed to this! :p). One favourite passage which a friend used to quote ad nauseum was this:

Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

This passage is an inspiration for the above series of photos which I did a while ago.

Ahoy!


Taken during my visit to Changi Jetty a few weekends ago… I caught this boatman manouevring his boat towards the jetty while delivering barrels of ‘live’ seafood. I like the colours and lighthing and the seen which is enhanced by his “come hither” action.

Zzzzz….


This gentleman (with vitiligo, a skin depigmentation disorder) was so absorbed in his nap on a hot Sunday morning near the Ang Mo Kio market that he hardly budged at all while passers-by walked by. I can hardly say the same for a cobbler and his assistant, who were seated just a couple of metres away; they got edgy when I pointed my camera towards them (hey… they were in a public place anyway :p) with the cobbler threatening to literally clobber me even when I protested that I was not taking pictures of them!