Solo Macro along SengKang River 16 Oct 2011

I always wondered when I drive towards Sengkang along TPE.

How to access the river that TPE cuts across?

I can always see street lamps along the foot path along the river bank.

So late Saturday night/ Sunday morning, I made my way towards Sengkang.

Managed to capture some good macro shots despite the flash extension cable mounting failed on me.

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Mrs Neo and Miss Neo

My ladies of the house are always forced to pose for my camera....

Though they always complain of me constantly asking them to pose, they never reject my request.
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Isabel Portrait at East Coast Park

My precious dotter

She has such a sweet smile...

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Old man redux aka Free photo effects filters

The sharp photo of the old man in the blog entry below gave more some ideas..

Here is the result of cropping, sharpening, sepia, and exposure changes.

All these effects were applied without Gimp or Photoshop..

The two magic words are "Picasa" and the inbuilt tool "Piknik".
Both are free!

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Old Man in Void Deck Staring into the Void.

Was at Toa Payoh when I saw this old man at a void deck of a HDB flat.

Around the old man were some stray cats, so I took some shots of the cats initially and later on, I swapped to use my tele-photo [70-300mm IS] and turned on "LiveView" to take some shots without the subject knowing...

I need a shave..

The world can wait, let me finish this puff first..

Tarik Sahaja!

Yawnzzz.

Purrrrrrr..

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My boy vs the world

Nathaniel vs the world

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Singapore F1 eve of training race

Since I do not have any Singapore F1 2011 tickets, I couldn't take pictures of the actual race.

Well, the tracks are all lit up on the eve of the first race and I thought I try my luck to see if I can walk into the area.

I'd always drive past the ECP Rochor exit and there is a small footpath along the exit that allows a good shot to the starting line.. And since the roads were closed that night, I had to park quite some distance away and walk towards the highway..

Here are the pictures I took at 2am on 22 Sept 2011.

I also tried some creative effects with Gimp to create the tilt-shift [ toy camera ] effect.

Instructions can be found here.
The result of this effect makes everything looks like miniature. See pic below.

"I built this diorama of the Singapore F1 circuit starting line!"

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