Another one from my visit to the Singapore Botanical Gardens last weekend. This is a close-up, abstract shot of one the the plants in the Ginger Garden. The original shot was predominantly green. I have adopted a monochrome conversion here to highlight the details and patterns which I like.
My third visit to the same area in the same number of weeks looking to capture the fireworks rehearsals before Singapore’s 44th National Day turned out to be literally third time lucky. I had initially wanted to try my luck at the Marina Barrage but found the place already filled to the brim when I arrived. We eventually headed and ended up having dinner at a posh restaurant at Clifford Pier. The food wasn’t exactly cheap, but what made up for it was the access to the pier overlooking the Marina Bay area, which provided the right location to capture the fireworks I was intending to catch. The above is a montage of two pictures I took that night.
It has been a while since I made a trip to our Botanical Gardens in Singapore. The place is chockful of opportunities for macro photography and this was the place I decided to head for when I finally laid my hands on something that I have always been yearning for: a Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro lens 🙂 Dad spotted this flower of the (“mouthfully-long”) Scaphochlamys oculata, a type of ginger native to Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. We were attracted by the patterns and colours of the flower petals. This is one of the shots that I like (out of a few actually, the rest of which I will post up in due time) 😀