First Class Portering


I was at Terminal 2 of the Singapore Changi Airport yesterday morning trying something different for a change — indoor people photography — when I came across these porters busy helping ferry baggage for the first class air-travellers. The reflections of the patterns off the floor contrasting with the silhouettes of the porters caught my eye. I like the grid-like floor patterns and the saturated reflections which, together with the strong silhouettes, provide visual interest to the whole shot.

Under Construction


While going through my collection of pictures in updating/revamping my photoblog here, I came across an image of a construction worker that I took at the Singapore Management University construction site at Bras Basah Road in March earlier this year. The original image had a the worker placed against a bland, white sky. In tribute to the diazochrome technique that my father pioneered earlier in his photographic career, I have turned the background to a deep, saturated blue in similar style, albeit made much easier with the use of Photoshop now. I like the cacophony of colours created between the contrast of the deep blue, versus the orange, fiery colours of the beams, scaffolding as well as the helmet of the worker. The expression on the worker’s face provided a touch of human interest to the shot.

Trees


These trees (on an open field by a block of public housing flats in Sengkang) near where I live caught me and my dad’s attention so much (when we drive by) that we decided to go down to take photos of them on an early Sunday morning (in May this year) eventually. I like the silhouettes of their long stem-like trunks contrasting with the light morning mist. Thankfully we did visit these trees too; a few weeks later, we found that some of the trunks have snapped — perhaps a result of being struck by lightning.