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Starlight Express Rolls into Singapore

One of the longest-running and most unique musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express opened on 13 Nov 2013 at the MasterCard Theatres at Marina Bay Sands. Thanks to my friend Janice, I had the opportunity to attend the special media event as well as the evening’s show. The musical tells the story of a toy […]

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Featured On National Geographic’s Web Site and Flickr Blog

I was going through my Twitter feed on my iPhone today morning when I came across a tweet from National Geographic (@natgeo) featuring a collection of reader-submitted Supermoon photos. As I had also submitted a few of mine to them as part of their #supermoon weekend hashtag assignment, I clicked through to see if by […]

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Supermoon Redux

Last year, I set out to shoot the Supermoon but it was thwarted by the cloudy weather and I came home without any shots of it. This year, the Supermoon came by again and I decided to give it another go. However, irresponsible Indonesian farmers decided to use the ancient “Slash and burn” technique of […]

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Exhibited at SXSW 2013

About two weeks before the South by Southwest (SXSW) 2013 event held in Austin, Texas, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a Flickr Mail from Flickr‘s marketing manager, Theresa Nguyen. Flickr has come across my photo (above) and would like to showcase it in their gallery at Brazos Hall at SXSW and asked me for […]

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Moonset Over Marina Bay Sands

I was at Gardens by the Bay when I saw a crescent moon floating just above the Skypark of the building. Having brought along my Nikon 1 V1 and no tripod, I set the ISO to 1600 and snapped a couple of shots and it turned up pretty decently. It’s later when I checked a […]

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Marina Bay Sands At Dusk (Or How I Failed to Shoot the Supermoon.)

I had originally set out to shoot the Supermoon which is supposed to happen on the 5th and 6th of May 2012. With some research and help from YS and excellent tools like Google Earth, we found that the moon will rise at about 6:20pm on 5 May 2012, at an azimuth of 106°. With […]

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Garden of Light

One of my favourite installations of the i Light Marina Bay 2012 festival is the Garden of Light. Commissioned specially for the festival, it is created by Singapore’s Hexagon Solutions and uses 3D digital mapping technology to project animation onto the petals of the ArtScience Museum. My shots of that installation all had black skies […]

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i Light Marina Bay 2012

Now in its second edition, i Light Marina Bay is dubbed as Asia’s first and only sustainable light art festival. I’ve missed the first i Light 2 years ago and made a point not to miss it again this time. Spanning the entire Marina Bay area including the Merlion Park, Marina Promontory, the Float @ […]

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Dawn of a New Day

On this brand new day of this brand new year 2012, David, Kit and I, along with several ClubSnappers went for a morning shoot. We went to the waterfront in front of the Artscience Museum at the Marina Bay Sands to shoot the Singapore Skyline. I usually prefer the view over from the Esplanade Theatre […]

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2011 – Year In Photos

As 2011 draws to a close, I thought I’d share some of my favourite photos from 2011. So here goes. Western Australia Trip I went for a short trip to Perth, Western Australia with my friend Clarence where we enjoyed ourselves a lot. It was also fun to catch up with our respective friends and […]