{"id":895,"date":"2014-06-28T23:34:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T15:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2014-06-28T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T15:45:45","slug":"singapore-sports-hub-open-house-and-one-year-countdown-to-sea-games-2015-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/singapore-sports-hub-open-house-and-one-year-countdown-to-sea-games-2015-fireworks","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Sports Hub Open House and One Year Countdown to SEA Games 2015 Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3899\/14540660093_07ac290b06_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks light up the night sky in Singapore on 28 June 2014 to commemorate the opening of the Sports Hub and 1 year to the SEA Games 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On 27th June 2014, the Singapore Sports Hub held an open house to its facilities. The same day also marks a year to go to the SEA Games 2015. While I was disappointed that the grand dame of the Sports Hub, the rebuilt National Stadium isn&#8217;t open to the public (so much for \u201cOpen House\u201d), the fireworks in the evening helped lessen some of that disappointment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fireworks have not been fired from the Kallang area ever since the last National Day at the National Stadium in August 2006. It&#8217;s therefore quite exciting to see fireworks over the new stadium this time. I joined an outing organised by a friend Philip Kung, a member of the Singapore Photographers&#8217; Interest Group on Facebook, and by the time I arrived the whole area at our location is jam packed with photographers and their tripods. Thankfully, another friend, David, <em>choped<\/em> (reserved in local slang) a place for me.<\/p>\n<p>I shot the fireworks on the Fujifilm X-T1 and the Zeiss Touit 12mm f\/2.8 lens, and also recorded a video of the entire 7 minute performance on my Nikon V1 which is mounted on the railing using a Joby Gorillapod.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the shots from that evening. Unfortunately, the new stadium is shrouded in smoke soon after the fireworks started.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5584\/14334096347_86a0911891_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2934\/14517170001_e5ef8f3698_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF6560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-896\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF6560.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks light up the night sky in Singapore on 27 June 2014 to\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF6560.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF6560-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF6559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-897\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF6559.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks light up the night sky in Singapore on 27 June 2014 to\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF6559.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF6559-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5492\/14519133494_a441c6b370_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video of the whole fireworks performance.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cKrTxUta50U?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27th June 2014, the Singapore Sports Hub held an open house to its facilities. The same day also marks a year to go to the SEA Games 2015. While I was disappointed that the grand dame of the Sports Hub, the rebuilt National Stadium isn&#8217;t open to the public (so much for \u201cOpen House\u201d),&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/singapore-sports-hub-open-house-and-one-year-countdown-to-sea-games-2015-fireworks\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singapore Sports Hub Open House and One Year Countdown to SEA Games 2015 Fireworks<\/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":[124,47,428,438,440,439,21,429,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}