CHILDHOOD

童年，本来就是像这叶子一般的五彦六色。无奈现今的孩童， 却似囚犯般，终日被功课，补习等，缠得永不见天日！他们已失去了捕鱼扑蝶的自然情趣。心态变异，为人不顾六亲，不恋旧情。恍若机器人！ 哀哉！

Childhood, supposed to be colorful as these young leaves. But today's kids mostly have lost all these treasure activities: catching fish, scooping butterflies in the open. They are imprisoned by all sorts of home works, tutions etc. They grow up with a twisted mind, as if they are all robotic human! Sad to see such development in a modern society!

Singapore Garden Festival 2010

I went to the Singapore Garden Festival on 16th July 2010, at Suntax City. I would not miss this event as I had attended the previous. There are lots of flowers and garden designs displayed there. This year, I got a better deal for entrance. As they offer senior citizen with concession price, and another 5% deduction if you have processed certain cards, such as Passion Card. I spent almost two hours in the premises, and took lots of photographs of flowers and Garden installation.

Some of the photographs are displayed below.

Song



Just like to share one clip I made. Hope you would enjoy it.

Sugai Buloh Visit

This morning I went to Sugai Buloh Nature Park and took these shots. Hope you all would enjoy them.
I realized taking nature not only you need long range lenses but great patience and luck too. By the way, I do not have the desired lens and do not have patience. Therefore, hardly could I get number of good shots, in terms of clarity, sharpness and good posture of the animals.

A series of Posters

Recently, I decided to add some values to the photographs that I have taken during a trip to the zoo. I designed and added some captions on the shots. Hope they would touch you or amuse you.

Zoo Visit 2010

I went to the zoo today (2nd June 2010)with my colleague Daniel Lim. We spent more than 5 hours walked about and took lots of photographs of animal. Daniel is trying out his newly bought Canon 70-200 L lens. I am targeted at taking animal portrait. My gears were simple: One Canon 7 D body, a 75-300mm zoom USM IS lens, a 24-85mm USM lens, one 2X Kenko converter, one set of Kenko extension tube and a spider tripod.
Below are some of the photographs taken there.

Those days in Buona Vista Secondary School


I taught in Buona Vista Secondary School as an art teacher for more than 15 years. It was a memorable time for me, as I had lots of committed students. They loved art, and performed well. We used to work in the Art Room until sun down. We paint, draw and create art works for leisure purpose when we finished the assigned projects.

Students found out my birthday through the school admin and celebrated my birthday at my place. This photograph was taken during one of the birthday celebrations. Sad thing is, someone in this photo is no more with us. She has completed her life journey very much sooner than us. Some of this students still contact me these days, they are all in their forties now. Time really flies.

Happy Vesak Day 2010!

Sunda Woodpecker

A pair of Sunda Woodpecker were nesting on a dry branch outside of my office. My colleague Daniel noticed them and inform me. I packed my photographic equipment and set up the shot. The results are partially displayed here. As I do not have pro lenses, I used 2 tele converters with a 70-300mm zoom to take some of these shots. Therefore, they were not pin sharp. Worst of all, with the tele converters, the auto focus function of the lens was disabled. I got to use manual focusing. Hope the viewers here could understand all these handicaps.

Sunda Woodpecker is one of the common woodpecker resident in Singapore. But this is the first time I witnessed them, furthermore, when they are nesting. It is something that I am very pleased in my shooting adventure. There is very little information on this type of woodpecker on the Web. I welcome bird specialists to enlighten me on this bird's behavior, habitat, eating habit and so on. Comments are welcome.

This is the sharpest shot displayed here. : )