Photography: Lightning @ Marina Barrage

Suppose to update the previous post but then I decided to leave it as it is and write a new one. Finally I've visited Lowyat to get the cable making my Hard Disk work again. A little regret getting it on a weekday but coz of the freaking jam. The jam was so bad I kept thinking to myself... are people so rich now that they dun need to work during the weekdays? WTF?!? After thinking for a while, the jam might be worse during the weekends. I'm a positive person after all... that I keep telling myself.

The photos in this post are actually taken quite a while back. It was a fine Saturday which unfortunately I had to work half day. The sun was shining so brightly blazing through the sky with thin clouds and it seems to be a good day for photography. So I decided to ask Shi May along to go take some photo at Marina Barrage. She just got her camera not long ago and still doesn't know how to use it. I thought it would be a good chance to ask her to go Marina Barrage and shoot some photos.

The sky was still shining so bright at Choa Chu Kang when I left my house at about 4pm heading towards Marina Barrage. But what I didn't know is.... Singapore is so fucking big, the sun could shine and it feels like burning hell but the rain started to pour like elephants and whales when I'm at Toa Payoh area~!

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The rain poured in BIG DROPS and it was really frustrated~! Had to call Shi May ask her to go home and sleep. Luckily she didn't brought out her camera and she was suppose to go home and pick up her camera before meeting up with me. So I was at Toa Payoh area and the jam started at Pan Island Expressway (PIE) and I didn't know what to do next. I exit at Toa Payoh wanted to make a U-turn to go home already... but dunno was it the freaking weather or I was super frustrated or maybe both... I can't freaking make my way back to the opposite direction~! Stuck in the jam again... I decided to go forward and head to Marina Barrage since I'm just another 5km or less away.

When I reach there... I got another surprise... It was just DRIZZLING there.... Remember I mentioned how fucking big Singapore is?? Just a moment ago I was stuck in the jam because of the sudden downpour and now it's just drizzling at Marina Bay. Woohoo~! Lucky me~! From Marina Barrage, I can see those thick clouds gathered at the north side and I can see lightning striking at least once every 5 minutes. Then I think to myself~ what a wonderful world~ Nah, I wasn't thinking about Louis Armstrong's song. I'm gonna capture some lightning shots today and you bet I did after an hour of shooting around 200 photos.... alone abandoned Shi May :p coz it's still drizzling anyway. Didn't wanna take the risk to ask her come over.













These 6 shots are the clearest I've captured. Actually there were more beautiful lightning than the 6 above but I just couldn't get the timing right. It's really not easy to capture lightning. Well, I wasn't prepared to take photos of lightning that day also. Didn't google up how is it done. It was just depending on my raw instinct and troubleshooting. It seems that the best exposure is around 1.3 - 2.5 seconds.


This photo here is same as the first one on top but it's processed differently. It's a High Dynamic Range (HDR) photo. Posted in the earlier post actually. Heh

After shooting and walking all over Marina Barrage for nearly 2 hours, I got hungry... Then call up Shi May see she wants to go for dinner or not. Then baru remember she already moved to Tampines.... damn far... hahaha. Have to drive past Changi Airport and go up some more. With my GPS, I got no trouble finding her place at all.

Another problem kicked in after I picked her up. Dunno where to eat coz I'm not familiar with Tampines at all~! Coz Tampines is further than HOLLAND (there's a Holland Road in Singapore and that's already damn far for me). So we decided to check out Century Square near the Tampines MRT station. Shi May stays there so she is my GPS at that moment, leading me there using her usual bus route... lol

Problem did not get away after we reach there. Can't find a parking space~! I was driving a truck that time and that truck can only go in car park which has 1.9 meter height clearance at least. That stupid car park has only 1.8 meter clearance~!!

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Luckily no cars behind... I need to make a 3 point turn at the tight car park entry.

The car park entry looks like this. I've already drove all the way in till the gantry. It's shows 1.9 meter clearance outside... but reach inside... omfg... hit the roof of the truck d~! If you are imagining... the truck in the picture is not the one I drive... lols

Pusing pusing for a while then in the end we gave up and next we decided to try our luck at East Coast Park area. It feels like I almost drive around whole Singapore already. At first wanna go Carl's Junior there, guess what... parking problem again... but this time it's not about height clearance. The car park is just FULL. Drove further down and we decide to makan at C.Nai Hong Kong Cafe Xpress.

When we reach there, I asked for her new camera that she bought, it's a Nikon D5000.... but she didn't bring out -___________________-|||
Was gonna explain to her about some basics of DSLR camera geh... mana tau... Then she told me there's no dial in her camera... How is it possible that there's no dial in a DSLR?? Lagi confused d coz I was showing her my camera and she said her's one dun have dial. lols. (In the end she found her camera dial when she reach home). Then we ordered some food, was damn hungry d coz we reached there about 10pm.


This is fried Enoki Mushroom, or 炸金针菇


Clay pot chicken rice with salted fish or 咸鱼瓦锅鸡饭. This is for me. Ngek ngek~!


Curry Zhu Cheong Fun.... 咖喱猪肠粉 dunno wat it's called in english so direct translate.

Overall the food still not bad. Actually I'm very cincai with food. As long as it doesn't taste bad, I can swallow until I'm full. That's all for this post ler. One of the most memorable day I had in Singapore.

Have more pics for next post. Stay tuned.

Updated: Lightning @ Marina Barrage

Updates!



Better than none, this is just a preview of the photo I've taken at Marina Barrage on a stormy day... Got more photos on the way. Maybe next week... lols

#Update within an update 21/7/2010
Was going to add more pictures into this post... Suddenly only I remembered that I need to buy a power cable for my portable hard disk that currently stored up all my photos. Been thinking about this for weeks already but there isn't any free time for me to make a visit to Lowyat... haihz...

Looks like I can't do anything till Saturday. Gonna make a trip to Lowyat and get some things then.


Another update... processed the picture already. I give more contrast to the photo so that the Lightning is more striking that the original photo.


The HDR version of the original peekture. This one has more details.

Actually there's more photos one all stuck in another hard disk and I still haven't visit Lowyat yet. That cable can't be found at any normal computer shops around my area. Will go down town tomorrow afternoon before work.

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Awesome song~!
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