“Smile! You’re On Camera!”


A slight variation on my previous post… this time with my dear wife adding a touch of human interest to the shot. I have been trying to interest her in taking pictures so that she wouldn’t be bored sitting around when we go out on photographic trips. Getting her a P&S camera (the Canon Powershot A510) for her birthday was a start. Now to get her to use it more often… 😛

Illumination by the Kapok Tree


The old Kapok Tree at the Singapore Botanical Gardens provides lots of opportunities for creative photographic work. A visit to the Gardens after a long period of absence presented the above scene. The early morning sun provided strong and dramatic backlighting to the scene. I love especially the touch of rim light on the edge of the great old tree. More pictures from the Botanical Gardens to follow…

Fluid Fighting

One more from the Bugis Junction fountain series…

It is not easy to get a clear background when taking pictures in public places, especially just right outside a shopping mall! Passers-by cross right in front of you and spoil your pictures. Else, they end up as distracting subjects in the background of your pictures! One way to do it is to adopt a higher angle to simplify the background clutter (like what I did for the two previous posts). An alternative in unavoidable situations is to do some “post-production work” as I have done here.

As an aside, the boy’s pose reminds me of what I do for Body Combat classes in the gym 🙂