If art is a form of communications to allow empathy- where the artist aims to convey an internal feeling, or concept that he has to the audience- then great art must be something where the message is conveyed with minimal distortion to as wide an audience as possible. Continue Reading →
Here’s a Panography of a Christmas Tree (seen in Takashimaya Shopping Centre) which usually draws lots and lots of photographers attempting to capture the full extent of the tree from close range. I think unless you have a super wide angle lens all these efforts are in vain, especially at ground level.
Hope you like this one!
If you look hard enough, you may be able to spot me making the shot 
Anyway, Merry Christmas to all my readers! Have a good one and look forward to 2012!!
Another question that gets eyes rolling and brings to mind lofty concepts and airy ideals of things like beauty and so on. But that’s not really what I’m going to talk about. This isn’t going to be a “how-to” essay, but more of a “how do we do it” essay. Continue Reading →
Went to the Underwater World at Sentosa with my family – where lighting was extremely dim and it was pretty difficult to get good images. So I have this image of a lone jellyfish away from the crowd (just for a moment actually), and thought I’d do a retro sci-fi type of processing on it… jellies just look so alien. And floating in water is sort of analogous floating in space – both are the last great unexplored horizons
This is one of those questions which gets the guy or gal on the street rolling their eyes thinking – “another ‘pointless’ philosophical discussion”.
Now, I am not in any lofty position to say that I have the best or most knowledgeable answer, but I happen to have a take on this, so why don’t we see if you agree with me?
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Went over to the ArtScience Museum at the Marina Bay Sands for a look. The Titanic and Dali exhibits were much more interesting than the permanent installations (sadly I missed the Van Gogh installation). Wonder if the guys doing the clean-up went to see what was inside this structure they were busy cleaning in the hot sun.
Went to the Singapore Science Centre recently, and my kids went wild over the Dinosaurs Live! exhibit. I have to say it was much more impressive than a previous dinosaur exhibit I went to some months back. Although the eyes of the dinosaur models could be more realistic. All in all a good trip.
The dramatic lighting of this T-rex skeleton model caught my eye, and I thought the shadow of the model made for a nice juxtaposition.
There is something raw and wild about this image that speaks to me – the untamed tropics. Which is somewhat of an irony because this image was made in Singapore – where wilderness is likely extinct.
