Photo Of The Day XVII : Wave Surfing

Took this when I was at Sentosa Island. Visited this interesting place called Wave House Sentosa at Siloso Beach where they have this machine that create artificial waves~!!

Photo Of The Day XIV : Boat Quay

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Took this when Kelly the hotdoc visited Singapore last year. Went there early and had time to take a few night shots. This is the best pic I took that night... minus those crazy pics... lols

Photo Of The Day II

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.

Evening at Esplanade Singapore

I forgotten what was my purpose to visit Esplanade already.... I think I was there to teach Shi May how to use her DSLR... but then didn't see any of her photo in this album so I can't confirm.

But then, this is the time when I truly realise how important the golden hour of taking photo is. Golden hour generally is in the evening between 6pm to 7.30pm where the sun is setting and the sky is turning from yellow to orange and slowly turn dark. Photo taken during this hour is really really stunningly beautiful. For an amateur like me, I am quite amuse with the results of the pictures taken this session.

This is a building at Esplanade called Theatres on the Bay. The roof looks like durian right? hehe. The roofs are actually Aluminium plates but as you can see here, the roof turned into Golden plates. A lot of my friends who have seen this photo posted on my facebook actually asked me if the building was renovated~! Hehe.


This was taken at the same day, just different time. This is how the roof original look like.... like durian~!


Night view at Esplanade.


Balls outside of Theatres on the Bay. Might be Nick's balls


Don't know what building it is... but it sure looks similar to Komtar in Penang... but the cleaner version.


Trying to shoot an over exposed picture. Turns out not bad.


Skyscraper near Esplanade.


This is the Panoramic shot of Esplanade at night.

That's all for this album. If you like the picture, just click on it and a larger version will appear. If you want to get one as your wallpaper, just IM me and I will send a version without the frame and watermark. Just for friends only of course.

Sleep lor.. Good nite.

Photo Of The Day I

Hot Babes & Rides at SIN 2009 Part 2

After posting Part 1 of Super Import Nights 2009 photos, got to know from Stan that the girl in picture below, her name is Naomi Liu. Just google her and you'll get to her blog.


Here goes part 2 of Super Import Nights 2009.











This BMW is so cool man... LOVE IT~!















Well that's all I got for this car show. Got a few GT Babes photo I didn't post because it didn't turn out good. Took like 400++ shots during that 2 hour visit. T_______T

There will be another post on Asia Autosalon 2009 which has more GT Babes photos. Maybe will post them up when I have the time to sort it out.

Hot Babes & Rides at SIN 2009 Part 1

This event was held at EXPO, Singapore September right before the Raya holidays. Took the opportunity to take photos of the GT Babes and cool rides... more photos of GT Babes actually... lol

The entry was SGD10. No need to pay to bring in the camera. Not that expensive considering so many hot babe was there and so many cars including tuners, luxury, muscle, consumer class and also antiques~! Won't write anymore about the event. Just look at the photos and see for yourself~!






They got drift demonstration at the closed up parking lot. Anybody can just pay a fee to experience the thrill of drifting at the passenger seat. I didn't try though.


















The girl in red shirt is so cute. Wish I got her name.... T_T too late now.




Will continue part 2 shortly. Stay tuned.