Candle Light

Once a year, on the 8th day of the Chinese New Year, the photographers from Singapore would visit a temple at Devonshire Road to take picture of the long candles. This near mid-night event was very popular among our local photographers. Taken with high speed Ektachrome film, I montaged the original transparency later with a piece of blue-toned positive film to create the saturated blue flames with bias relief effect. This picture is another example of my colour derivations treatment with transparencies. It was considered very creative by many others during that time: I was fortunate to win the coveted Gold Trophy (Best Slide of the Show) of the 23rd Hong Kong International Salon, in 1968 with this picture.