Please Q Here

Please Q Here
As the Chinese (Lunar) New Year approaches, Chinatown becomes a bustle of activity with people checking out the festive goodies and bargains, or just soaking in the atmosphere. I made my almost obligatory yearly sojourn to Chinatown yesterday in search of pictures 🙂

Singaporeans are crazy over ba kwa, or barbeque dried pork, which is eaten as one of the festive goodies for the season. Ba kwa prices can go up to more than S$40 per kg at this time of the year, with the queues spilling into the streets and people waiting up to more than an hour for their turn to buy their share. This particular picture was taken outside one of the most popular ba kwa shop in Chinatown. I guess playing with his mobile phone was all the guy could do in the queue to keep himself occupied while waiting for his purchase.

ARPS #13 – An Animated Conversation

ARPS #13 - An Animated Conversation
Image #13 from my ARPS series…

An animated chit-chat session among two men on a sunny morning at Chinatown, Singapore served as the subjects of interest for this shot taken in 2003. I was fortunate to get a high vantage point to capture their actions in total unawareness! 😛 I thought that the patterns of the benches in contrast to the diagonal arrangment of the floor tiles gave the picture an overall sense of dynamism.

By the way, do check out my dad’s revamped photoblog, which has been modelled after the template I have here, powered on WordPress 2.0. Hope you will enjoy the pictures there as much as you have enjoyed mine 🙂

Glory Past

Glory Past
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)