Merlion and rainbows

Here's a photo from the recent Photog outing (Photog is short for Photography Club). We walked quite a fair bit from Tiong Bahru, then took a bus to 'town'. It had me officially exploring Singapore for the first time.

This photo different from the other Merlion photos I had because of the rainbow. Also, the fact that the merlion is undergoing construction is different in it's own way. :)

Cheers,
aileenfu

Of colours, windchimes, and the Sun's bright circles

Not been updating for awhile now. But here's the new photo. :)

Been to Malacca recently and I did enjoy myself. But I fell sick right after I returned, most probably due to food poisoning. It could be a good thing that it didn't happen during the trip like it did when I went to LiJiang. (My guess is altitude sickness)

Today's photo was taken at Malacca. I like this photo because of 3 main reasons.

1. I have a thing for colourful umbrellas. Although this is a magnified version, it still is a colourful umbrella. :)

2. The sun creates those pretty circles in the picture. I could have avoided them by tilting my camera a little and maybe I may regret it when I look at this photo later. For now though, I like the way it looks.

3. I never really liked having too many windchimes around the house, I find them rather.. distracting. But they do look and sound good outside. :)

So until I have a new photo (Which may be rather soon), I'll just leave it at that.

Cheers, 

aileenfu

Cat modelling

I haven't posted a photo for more than a week, or maybe two? It's just that I have not been carrying my camera out for a walk. It's always when I do that I will find something nice to take and then update this blog.

The watermark I put is really weird seeing that I'm not so good a photographer (yet.) It makes me feel as if I'm exaggerating (Maybe I am). But I wouldn't like seeing my photo elsewhere without any credits or anything. And the watermark seems to be a motivation for me, working towards the goal where my photograph may one day be worth the mark. :D So do bear with me until that comes true..

Back to today's photo. Some cats do make for great models. Even though others are shy and may run away, they still have some awesome camera-ready poses. This cat in the picture wasn't that friendly, it did run when I tried to shoot, but it looked at the camera with such hostility and curiosity that it made for a rather good shot all the same.
I'm not that into shooting cats and I haven't taken a photo of the big fat friendly cat at school (With a dslr at least..). Maybe someday it'll be a candidate for shooting. :)

Cheers,
aileenfu

Our generation is not all about technology.

Well, who says our generation don't enjoy ourselves in nature when we're young..

We hear older people telling us about what they played as children without digital handheld devices. 'Long kang' fishing, playing outdoors in general. Although I admit that not everyone in our generation has had the experience of fishing, or tadpole-ing in the 'long kang' (Canal) when they were young, we still do enjoy the outdoors. I used to catch tadpoles in the drain behind my block and keep them in a fishtank, waiting for them grow into adult frogs. I do hope I am not the only one my age who did that.

The young child in the photograph, plays in the water, while her mother tells her so much about what she did as a child playing in the river, looking for shell animals to catch.

Children today have their limitation when it comes to playing in nature. Another child, so desperately wants to step into the water, yet because of the fear of wetting his shoes, he was not allowed to. Furthermore, how many places can you find close to home in Singapore which allows you to get into such proximity with nature?

So, the difference between generations who played in the water and the generation who found joy in handheld devices is not technology, but rather the lack of exposure and allowance to get close with the rustic lifestyle. At least, I do like the feeling of stepping into the running water. Perhaps if we were given the choice of technology or nature after enjoying ourselves under the sun, we'd never want to leave. :)

Cheers,

aileenfu

Revival.

As you can see, I'm finally back to this blog after a week or so. During this period, I've been having reservations on whether or not I should continue posting new photographs that I take. I like sharing my photos, and writing about them because it helps me get my thoughts down. But what I do not like about it is that it limits other uses of the same photo. The thing about the internet is that once it has been uploaded, it's there forever. No matter how hard you try to erase it, it'd still be there.

At the same time, I watermark my photos in hope that if (and only if) it is used elsewhere, somehow, it'd be acknowledged.
So here's to a new revival of my photo blog! The photograph above, was taken on my way home. The backgound of this photo is actually a multi-storey carpark. It's really astonishing how such beauty of nature can survive in our urban city around us.

Many thanks to the people who played a great part in my decision to continue photo-blogging. Really appreciate it.
Lastly, a very HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to my biggest fan! <3

Cheers,
aileenfu

P.S. Oh, and please do leave the links to your photo blogs. Would really love to follow them. ^.^

Prayinggg Mantis

Photo-of-the-day is once again, an insect. Purely a coincidence, it's not that I have a sudden fad for taking insect portraits..

The mantis looks like it's injured. Is it? Hope not.

What I find interesting about this photo is not actually the insect, but rather the shadow of it that was cast on the ground. The shadow seems to show the shape of this praying mantis better than the actual thing.

I covered an event for photog today and it was quite tiring. But it was an enriching experience and anticipating the many more ops to come. :)

Cheers,

aileenfu

All that light

Today's photo is once again taken at Bishan Park. Like I said, there would be many more to come. Just when I've had enough taking pictures of other things, I came across this spider web above a light in the grass, so that explains all the brightness in the photograph. It was found in the bushes, guess how long I squatted there waiting for the wind to stop as any slight movement would blur the photo. (Not like it's very sharp now in any case.) And also, while waiting for the wind to stop, I saw many small insects flew and got stuck onto the web. That's what you miss when you dont wait to observe something. Think that's a main benefit of photography. It makes you stop and observe things around you..

Well, just wanted to share this photo and thought of the day. Please do comment below if you have any comments (Duh!), or words of encouragement will do too. ;)

Cheers,
aileenfu