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Semakau… again!
Last week was all about the shores and seagrasses. This week was all about the birds, butterflies and bees(+wasps), with two groups – the NSS birders, and Butterfly Circle members down for their respective faunal surveys.
What beautiful weather! Clear blue skies as we set off from the West Coast Pier on a 12-crew workboat.
The breeze [...]
Scuttling stinkbombs
They’re everywhere in the office. On the stairs, in the doorway, the bathroom (and the shower in the bathroom), the pantry, the library, under my desk, and behind my chair – a most unstrategic location for any creature to be hanging around in…
… especially when it just so happens that I decide to stand up [...]
Semakau
The Semakau Landfill is Singapore’s only landfill for waste disposal. It covers a total area of 350 hectares and has a capacity of 63 million m³. To create the required landfill space, a 7-km perimeter rock bund was built to enclose a part of the sea off between Pulau Semakau and Pulau Sakeng [off the [...]
Cyrene
It struck me as weird, unfamiliar, that I was using my D200 to shoot intertidal scenes. Then I realised – that had never happened before. My last intertidal trip, to Changi, was more than two years ago… before I had acquired the D200. I was going through my old intertidal photos and the bulk of [...]
CP4500 decommissioned
My 6-year-old Nikon Coolpix 4500 was a more-than-decent camera in its days. It packed a powerful macro function, and that it offered full manual control over exposure settings and flash output meant that in some ways, it is still a superior machine to many of the point-and-shoots out there in the market today. At least, [...]
SBWR 15th birthday
The GoH: SM Goh
Unveiling the SBWR Master Plan
Link :: CNA article on SBWR’s 15th anniversary
Photos :: SBWR 15th anniversary
Determined to shoot
Having done street or events photography for a while, negotiating your way through officials attempting to discourage you from taking photographs comes easily.
“It’s not for commercial purposes.” is the first thing I say to them. “It’s purely for personal use”, or “The people and places in my photos will not be brought into contempt” and [...]
Book-browsing behaviour
When in bookstores, besides looking at books, I also look at people looking at books. It’s interesting to observe the various sorts of book-browsing behaviour. Some like to pick up a book, look at its back, put it back down. Some like to flip through the pages. Some read a book there and then, starting [...]
