Under Construction


While going through my collection of pictures in updating/revamping my photoblog here, I came across an image of a construction worker that I took at the Singapore Management University construction site at Bras Basah Road in March earlier this year. The original image had a the worker placed against a bland, white sky. In tribute to the diazochrome technique that my father pioneered earlier in his photographic career, I have turned the background to a deep, saturated blue in similar style, albeit made much easier with the use of Photoshop now. I like the cacophony of colours created between the contrast of the deep blue, versus the orange, fiery colours of the beams, scaffolding as well as the helmet of the worker. The expression on the worker’s face provided a touch of human interest to the shot.

Trees


These trees (on an open field by a block of public housing flats in Sengkang) near where I live caught me and my dad’s attention so much (when we drive by) that we decided to go down to take photos of them on an early Sunday morning (in May this year) eventually. I like the silhouettes of their long stem-like trunks contrasting with the light morning mist. Thankfully we did visit these trees too; a few weeks later, we found that some of the trunks have snapped — perhaps a result of being struck by lightning.

Dragon’s Roar

As part of the celebrations of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, the longest dragon lantern in the world was unveiled by the Singapore River. I have actually wanted to take pictures of it more than 2 weekends ago but never got down to it partly because I was turned off by the large crowd of people visiting it. I finally found an angle eventually that not only minimised the number of passers-by cluttering the shot, but also allowed the full length of the dragon to be captured. The only disadvantage was there wasn’t much space to set up a tripod; this shot was finally taken handheld.