Category: Travel

We’re back from our honeymoon!

As we adjust back to Singapore time, here are some new images from our trip to share with you. This is one of my favourite and was taken from Jungfraujoch, or the “Top Of Europe” as it is known in tourist literature (most likely a misnomer since there are higher peaks in the Swiss Alps). Jungfraujoch hosts the Jungfraubahn, which at an elevation of 3,454 metres, is the highest railway station in Europe. The outdoors was at a freezing minus 7 degrees Celsius! I was lucky to be taking this from the comfort of our cafeteria while taking lunch. Putting the lens flush to the window did help to minimise any reflections. The use of a polarising filter helped to deepen the colour of the sky dramatically.

Updated: Please take a look at my comment for a short “making-of” description of this picture.

With the haze and all of late in Singapore, there hasn’t been much chances for me to go out and take some nice pictures. More updates should come after my honeymoon in December 🙂

In the meantime, here’s another image of Ceromo Lawang that I like very much from my Bromo trip.

I am hoping to post something new here soon as I get settled in at my new premises 🙂

The above was taken at Savana in the Tenggera Caldera area on our visit to Bromo. Dad has an almost similar version here although his was taken at a slightly earlier time and at a different focal length (and hence the different “telephoto compression” effect). The difference in colour temperature is also markedly obvious due to the different processing characteristics we have utilised for each of our images.