Media! Nowpublic.com =)

Okay, I'm quite surprised and happy that nowpublic.com grabbed a shot up for their news article =)
I'm in the media! Lols =)

http://www.nowpublic.com/singaporeans-celebrate-national-day

Do head there and take a read, its a contribution-based sort of news site, so you get to see various opinions of particular featured issues and stories... Not just the usual controlled media that's restricted...

Here's the shot again, entitled Rainbow Burst!



City of possibilites? Duh! There's always possibilities anywhere, everywhere.
I think its a subtle move to sort of propagate to the masses that we're an "open" country...
Ironically, we're known to be in a place renowned for feeding the young to grind through the education system...

Fireworks!

Yesterday was national day... After much debate, decided to head down to the esplanade at around 6, which was terribly late compared to the thousands of kiasu singaporeans who probably have been camping there since lunch time...

I had little wish of joining the crowd, even if it meant getting a clearer spot, it probably meant quite a fair bit of wasted hours... anyway, ended up at a nearby park opposite the esplanade, beside the war memorial, found a spot, which was pretty difficult, being jampacked , and where they had huge spreading trees around... Setup shop there, and was joined soon by a few other shooters, two american chaps, an indian national, and two nus guys...

I'll let the shots tell it all, it was difficult. We caught the side/rear end of the fireworks, accompanied by huge plumes of smoke from the rapid release... and the wind sort of wafted it all over the place... still managed to grab a few decent shots though...

Shots were taken with a tripod and the 28-135mm IS USM set at infiinty focus...





Cropped, and original...
Canon300d, f/8, 2.5seconds, 47mm focal length, Iso 100




Canon300d, f/8, 3.2 seconds, 47mm focal length, Iso100
National colours...



Canon300d, f/8, 2.5seconds, 47mm focal length, Iso100


It was a dodgy night, shot, and scooted out of there soon before the human floods enter the train station...

I'll post up more as soon as I get to post process more shots... =)