Author: ckng

Marina Bay Sands At Dusk (Or How I Failed to Shoot the Supermoon.)

I had originally set out to shoot the Supermoon which is supposed to happen on the 5th and 6th of May 2012. With some research and help from YS and excellent tools like Google Earth, we found that the moon will rise at about 6:20pm on 5 May 2012, at an azimuth of 106°. With… Continue reading Marina Bay Sands At Dusk (Or How I Failed to Shoot the Supermoon.)

Garden of Light

One of my favourite installations of the i Light Marina Bay 2012 festival is the Garden of Light. Commissioned specially for the festival, it is created by Singapore’s Hexagon Solutions and uses 3D digital mapping technology to project animation onto the petals of the ArtScience Museum. My shots of that installation all had black skies… Continue reading Garden of Light

Thoughts on the Lytro Camera

Launched last year and recently shipped, the Lytro camera is a revolutionary camera from Lytro Inc. which uses light field technology. The main selling point is that it allows you to readjust the focus of an image after it’s been taken, thereby eliminating the blurry shots that supposedly plague consumers. Following its announcement, there were… Continue reading Thoughts on the Lytro Camera

Abandoned Temple of Lao Sua (Old Hill)

It was at the end of our walk at Bukit Brown Cemetery and we were talking to Tien under the Ole Rain Tree when Gilbert asked if he knew about an abandoned temple in the area. He did not, but he referred us to Raymond Goh, one of the co-founders of the Asia Paranormal Investigators… Continue reading Abandoned Temple of Lao Sua (Old Hill)

A Walk in Bukit Brown

I was never quite keen on visiting cemeteries. In fact, I remember as a kid, I would always dread going to the few cemeteries to pay respects to my departed elders. They were always overgrown with plants, ridden with mosquitoes, hot and the many graves and plants made it difficult to move around in. However,… Continue reading A Walk in Bukit Brown

An Evening With the Sin Hoe Ping Puppet Troupe

I’ve never seen a marionette/puppet performance in my life, so when a friend Belinda Tan posted in Facebook about the Sin Hoe Ping Puppet Troupe performing outside the Asian Civilisations Museum, I went for it. Held on 16 and 17th Feb from 6-9pm, the performance is part of the Regenerating Communities project, an initiative for… Continue reading An Evening With the Sin Hoe Ping Puppet Troupe

Singapore’s Chinatown At Dusk – Re-shooting An Old Shot

Many years ago, I took a photo of Chinatown from the Chinatown Food Centre at Smith Street on my Nikon Coolpix 950. It was a long exposure shot showing the “food street” along Smith Street as well as the iconic 3-storey shophouse in Chinatown. It was close to the Lunar New Year, and a night… Continue reading Singapore’s Chinatown At Dusk – Re-shooting An Old Shot

Dawn of a New Day

On this brand new day of this brand new year 2012, David, Kit and I, along with several ClubSnappers went for a morning shoot. We went to the waterfront in front of the Artscience Museum at the Marina Bay Sands to shoot the Singapore Skyline. I usually prefer the view over from the Esplanade Theatre… Continue reading Dawn of a New Day