Category: Nightscene

Glowing bright and beautiful in the darkness of night

And Then The Stars Came Raining Down…

And Then The Stars Came Raining Down...
As promised from my earlier post, some pictures from the 2006-countdown fireworks 🙂

Singaporeans are typically fireworks-mad 😛 You can expect hordes of them to arrive whenever a fireworks display is on. On New Year’s Eve, the roads were typically jammed (including the highway overlooking the Esplanade Waterfront) with cars, most of them illegally parked. It would have been ideal to have gotten some nice cityscape to complement the firework pictures. The closest I could get to the fireworks was from the Marina Park though, with the treetops acting as my only foreground. Much of the picture-taking was just clicking the shutter (with a cable-release, with the camera tripod-mounted) with differing shutter speed/aperture/ISO settings, and hoping for the best 😛

The Esplanade Waterfront

The Esplanade Waterfront
Thousands of Singaporeans will once again converge at this area tonight to ring in the New Year with a spectacular display of fireworks. Taking pictures in the area is never easy, given the crowds as well as the closure of roads around the area. I haven’t decided whether if I should make a trip down tonight yet… This was taken one week ago on Christmas Eve.

Silent Night, Holy Night (in Singapore)

Silent Night, Holy Night (in Singapore)
I finally fulfilled one of my “wants” (on my About page) and got myself a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L lens… 🙂 With both the 17-40 f/4 L and 70-200 f/4L, as well as a 50mm f/1.8, I think I should be well-equipped to cover most of the photography I enjoy (all except a flash unit and a dedicated macro lens for completion’s sake).

The above was taken on Christmas Eve. Typical nightscene from Singapore except from a different vantage point, this time from the newly renovated and refurbished Marina Mandarin Hotel. All that I needed to complete the shot then was a festive fireworks display! Too bad this will be reserved for next week’s New Year’s Eve countdown instead.