In A Singapore Market

Lip Seng

This was one of my very first acceptance in the Singapore International Salon in 1962. I used a Rolleiflex twin lens reflex camera fitted with Rolleikin to capture this image at the China Town market. Kodachrome film was used. This picture won the Silver Medal and US$100 cash (top award) in the New York World Fair “The World and Its Peoples” Kodak International Picture Contest in 1964. After 42 years , the image is still as brilliant as brand new, a testament to the longevity of good film (if kept properly).

(Courtesy of: The National Museum of Singapore Permanent Collection, National Heritage Board, 2008)

Iron and Steel Mill

Lip Seng


Today being a special day of a leap year (29.02.2004), I feature here an image which I captured in 1970. A few years later after this was taken, the image was used as the cover picture for a book entitled “Science and Technology for 2 Million” (published in 1975 by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Singapore). After 34 years, I still like this image very much. Perhaps, it is due to the mood, atmosphere and the colours that I have managed to aptly portray on the subject.

(Courtesy of: The National Museum of Singapore Permanent Collection, National Heritage Board, 2008)

(Technical data:Kodachrome Film, Format 135 (35 mm), Exakta Varex IIb with Sonnar 135 mm f/4 lens)

Sand Dunes of Pinnacles

Lip Seng
This is another image captured at the Pinnacles, Western Australia during my last visit in November 2003. I like the pattern formed by the sand. The early morning sunlight gave good contour patterns of light and shadow. The saturated blue sky provided the image with good colour contrast help to create a picture with good visual impact. Nature is really the greatest artist among them all!