Black & white pictures
Another one from my visit to the Singapore Botanical Gardens last weekend. This is a close-up, abstract shot of one the the plants in the Ginger Garden. The original shot was predominantly green. I have adopted a monochrome conversion here to highlight the details and patterns which I like.
One of the very first pictures I took for 2009… from the comfort of my dining room balcony 🙂
Returning home from my first day of work in 2009, I came across this dramatic cloudscape over the Singapore city skyline. A quick rush for my camera and tripod, and I was shooting away. This particular shot has been post-processed in Lightroom. I thought that the monochromatic treatment brought out the contrasts of light and shadow much more effectively than if the shot had been processed in colour.
One of the satisfactions that I get from photography is when I am successful in making the seemingly mundane look interesting. I am glad to come across this essay on the web today which shares a similar opinion. The idea of creating something interesting from the mundane was also what I had in mind when I captured this shot almost 2 years ago during my trip to Switzerland. Hope that I’m successful here 😛 The ice must have been frozen for ages on the Alps. The thought of actually seeing water that has been frozen for what might have been millennia was certainly mind-boggling.