{"id":1084,"date":"2015-12-31T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2016-01-04T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:14:00","slug":"2015-year-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/2015-year-in-photos","title":{"rendered":"2015\u2014Year In Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a few hours, we will bid farewell to 2015 and welcome 2016. I\u00a0usually do a end-of-year post of some of my favourite photos and events over the year, but missed 2014 as I was overseas. I continue the tradition this year, with my favourite photos of 2015.<\/p>\n

Here we go.<\/p>\n

In Jan 2015, I finally had the chance to visit Yosemite National Park, the quintessential location for landscape photographers. As it was a day tour, I didn’t get to stay for as long as I’d have liked, though.<\/p>\n

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Tunnel View, Yosemite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And also, The Grand Canyon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Colarado River winding through Grand Canyon West Rim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back in Singapore, in April, I caught the lunar eclipse<\/a> of the \u201cBlood Moon\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Composite image of the lunar eclipse on 3 Apr 2015 as the moon emerges from totality.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also got to visit the Raffles Lighthouse<\/a> and discovered the beautiful southern islands from the top.<\/p>\n

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Raffles Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Turquoise Waters Surrounding Pulau Satumu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And not to forget, Singapore’s 50th year of independence<\/a>, dubbed SG50. The National Day Parade finished off with spectacular fireworks.<\/p>\n

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Spectators shoot the fireworks display on their mobile phones at the Waterfront Promenade outside the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. The country celebrated her 50th year of independence on 9 Aug 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

August also brought us Singapore’s eighth Night Festival, with the performances by Starlight Alchemy<\/a> and Theater Tol<\/a> being the highlights.<\/p>\n

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Singapore-based fire performance group, Starlight Alchemy, performing \u201cAlchemy\u201d, a 3-part story of Apollo from the world of Ethereal Light and Nuri from the world of Eternal Flame, at the Singapore Night Festival 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Angels descend in front of the National Museum of Singapore in a performance titled \u201cGarden of Angels\u201d by Theater Tol from Belgium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interestingly, in October, there’s the Singapore River Festival, which is somewhat similar to the Singapore Night Festival.<\/p>\n

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The red fans of the performers forms the numbers 5 0, signifying Singapore’s Golden Jubilee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Les Voyageurs by C\u00e9dric le Borgne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, in November, I visited one of my dream photography locations, Iceland. My friends and I were treated to a wonderful display of the aurora borealis not once, but three consecutive nights. Talk about being lucky! I’ll be posting more photos from the trip soon.<\/p>\n

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Silhouette of myself at Myvatn, Iceland under a giant swirl of the Aurora Borealis accompanied by a few meteorites in the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Icebergs and ice formations at the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon in Iceland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s to another great year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a few hours, we will bid farewell to 2015 and welcome 2016. I\u00a0usually do a end-of-year post of some of my favourite photos and events over the year, but missed 2014 as I was overseas. I continue the tradition this year, with my favourite photos of 2015. Here we go. In Jan 2015, I… Continue reading 2015\u2014Year In Photos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[544,47,481,543,552,267,509,551,269,545,550,512,21,549,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}