You’re A Great Way To Fly


Borrowing from Singapore Airline’s marketing icon and slogan… 🙂

This was the exact same setup I used (tripod and all) when I took “Trolley Service” at the Changi International Airport, with the exception that instead of the trolley man, we have a Singapore Girl (air stewardess) rushing off to board her flight. I like the way the lighting fell on the stewardess… A pity that lighting conditions were too dim for me to try a faster shutter speed (I was already using up to ISO 800 on my 300D — ISO 1600 would have produced even worse digital noise) to freeze her action.

Bon Voyage


This silhouette study was taken at the Changi International Airport’s viewing gallery in Terminal 1 as part of the series of pictures that I took two weekends ago during my visit there. I was attracted by the strong silhouettes of the visitors contrasting with the bright sunshine outside on the tarmac, as well as the patterns of light and shadow created by the floor tiles.

万家灯火

This was taken from Mount Faber in Singapore yesterday evening — I wanted very much to repeat some night scene photography that I took with my G3 more than a year ago (this time, with my 300D and better lenses). Alas, the growth of shrubs and trees has been so rapid that they now obstruct the view I managed to get last year. However, I did manage to capture something new this time around.

As usual, the concrete jungle of buildings provided the setting for the shot. Taking this right at dusk, the buildings provided nice lit patterns for the shot. I like the layered effect created by the varying distances of the buildings in the shot, with the bottom left block of flats providing a strong visual anchor for the overall scene. The title of the shot is in Chinese and means literally “Lamplights of ten thousand families”.