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 🙂

The Little Water Guru


Taken at the Bugis Junction fountain featured in the previous shot, this boy was also having fun with the water. At one moment in time, he decided to play-act as a master/guru of the waters. He sat on his knees in a meditative pose and pretended to raise the waters with his mind power, oblivious to this photographer who was busy snapping pictures of him 😛

“Don’t you think we’re drenched enough?”

Finally, a new picture in quite some months!

Given the hot weather here in Singapore, the outdoor fountain at Bugis Junction has always been a welcome place among children for great cooling fun, and especially so this week since it is school vacation time. I have always wanted to take pictures of children enjoying themselves there but have never really gotten the time to go down to do so… till yesterday. This is the first of a series of shots I took.

Exposure information: Canon 20D with Sigma 70-200mm f/4-5.6 APO II Super Macro lens, Aperture – f/8.0, Shutter – 1/60s, ISO – 200, Aperture Priority Mode, Flash – off