View of the front entrance of the Esplanade.

View of the surrounding buildings from the rooftop terrace.

Dusk at Marina Bay. I only saved a small version of this because I'm ashamed of it... The buildings on the right are blur! I'm kicking myself for not being careful. So this means I have to go back to photograph this again! But blurriness aside, I really like the stitching in this picture! Because in the other panoramas, I had to warp them to get the final result. But not for this one! I just needed to crop it and it's done! So you can imagine my frustration when I found out it wasn't perfect...

Other photos I took:

This is the life!

Tanglin Rose Big Band!

Drummer!

Guitarist!

1/15s at 100mm

This was shot at 1/20s at 250mm. While it's not super clear, at least you can make out the dude's face! It's a pity my 450D can only go up to ISO1600, if not I could've used a faster shutter speed.

Alright, that's all! Stay tuned for more stuff in the coming weeks!

Was about to go home after a day of photographing planes at Changi Beach when I saw this flower lying on the road. Its bright colour stood out against the dull pavement so I took a photo of it. My telephoto lens was zoomed to the max and the aperture was wide open to isolate the flower as much as possible from the background. The result is that the flower is sharp while the background is blur. I adjusted the levels in Photoshop so that the colour of the flower appears more vibrant.

In Photoshop, I dabbled with the Black and White adjustment layer thingy and found out that I liked the B&W versions much much more.

f/8, 1/10s @ ISO1600, 18mm

f/6.3, 1/15s @ ISO1600, 18mm

f/6.3, 1/15s @ ISO1600, 30mm

Earlier today I also took some photos of Celly Belly. Erm... Make that one.

f/5.6, 1/6s @ ISO1600, 250mm

I'm thinking of venturing into macro photography. Seems kinda interesting... Until then, see you and thanks for viewing!

f/9, 1/125s @ ISO100, 116mm

This week's random photo:

Taken in January during a trip to the zoo. (f6.3, 1/500s @ ISO1600, 55mm)

I'm going to Batam in September. Prime photography opportunity. Till then...

1s exposure.

And compare these buildings to those in Colmar Tropicale, Malaysia:

I'd say they're pretty similar, don't you think? This photo was taken from our hotel room! (f/8, 1/160s @ ISO100, 18mm)

We left Singapore pretty early, at 6am on April Fool's Day. Actually I had already been up since 2.30am to watch the Arsenal-Barca match. All I can say is... wow. Arsenal was shit in the first 15 minutes (30-70 possession, wtf!), but our comeback was amazing. We can definitely beat Barca if we played like that for the whole 90 minutes.

We stopped by a roadside coffee shop for breakfast. I took another moonshot.

I shot this handheld! (f/5.6, 1/30s @ ISO100, 250mm)

Spent close to 6 hours in the car. We took a wrong turn on the highway and ended up in downtown KL. We were stuck in the traffic jam for almost an hour, and when we finally got back to the highway, we missed the turning to E8, the highway that would take us to Colmar Tropicale. So our arrival was delayed by yet another hour, but we made it in the end!

First view of Colmar Tropicale. (f/8, 1/250 @ ISO100, 55mm)

We went to our hotel room after check-in. It's a double-storey room!

f/3.5, 1/50s @ ISO800, 18mm

Upstairs. (f/3.5, 1/25s @ ISO800, 18mm


Stairs.

We walked around the resort for awhile... then went to the Japanese Village nearby.













The Japanese Village was further up, so we had a nice view of the hills around.


We went to the nearby botanical garden first.










We went to the Japanese Tea House next. We didn't attend the tea ceremony because it was too expensive. So we fed the fishes in the pond. Or rather, my parents fed them while I took pictures.





When we went back to the hotel, I fell asleep for goodness knows how long and it was dark when I woke up.


f/9, 25s @ ISO100, 25mm


f/3.5, 1/13s @ ISO1600, 18mm

We had dinner at this posh French restaurant, La Cigogne (the Stork). It's so posh that we couldn't go inside because I was wearing flip-flops and shorts. Haha.

I ordered Alsatian sausages while my parents ordered duck and salmon. The food was good! However they didn't have foie gras and escargots! They used to have, but it was difficult to import from France!

While waiting for our food, I went to watch a Chinese acrobatic performance nearby.

The 'Head-in-Crotch' move. Not comfortable at all.


View of the interior of the restaurant. There weren't many people dining here. In fact, there weren't many people in the resort itself. I think it's because it's not the school holidays yet.

The next morning, I went to the top of the tower with my dad and took pictures.





I even managed to take a photo of a helicopter!






Tiles on a roof.


Beautiful clouds!



I want to live in those houses!!!


View of Colmar Tropicale from the tower.

We left Colmar Tropicale at around 11 and began our loooooooooooong journey home.

The end! I hope you've enjoyed the pictures!