Nature
Updates for the next 3 weeks or so will be a little slow as I am now busy preparing for a career-related exam. Do bear with me for the time being!
The above was taken quite a while ago at the Botanical Gardens in Singapore. I chanced upon it while selecting pictures for an upcoming public exhibition (more on that later if I get selected ;)). I like the deep green of the pond which was achieved using a polarizing filter. Kudos to dearest CY again for the title inspiration 🙂
It has been become customary for my parents to shop for flowers to decorate the house for Chinese New Year… and for me to take pictures of them for posterity 🙂 This time round, we bought hyacinths. I came home from work on the first day of the New Year to find my dad sitting out in the yard taking pictures of these flowers. Joining him for a short while (before I took a much-needed nap), I took the above picture with the aid of a reflector and a piece of black card.
You know that “winter” has arrived in Singapore when… it’s raining non-stop for the sixth consecutive day in a week 😛 As the rainy season continues, here’s looking at an old picture I took a while ago (when it was sunnier)…
MacRitchie Reservoir presents numerous opportunities to create pictorial/visual art kind of pictures such as this study of a fallen leaf by the reservoir edge. I love the details captured in the leaf (I have a nice enlargement of this — you can actually see beads of water on the full-size version of this shot) contrasting with the dark background of the water. This was taken in May 2004.
Exposure information: Camera – Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL, ISO – 200, Exposure Time – 1/160 sec, Aperture – f/13.0, Flash – Off, Focal Length – 190mm, Lens – Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO II Super Macro, Exposure Program – Manual, Metering Mode – Center Weighted, Auto Focus Mode – AI Focus, White Balance – Auto, Capture Format – RAW (processed with CaptureOne DSLR Rebel Edition)