Gardens by the Bay

This brand new park was offically opened on the 29 June 2012. It is built next to the Marina Bay Sands Resort. This location was once the Marina South Park. Back then this park was a plain park with a  few ponds and small hills. Bird life was good there too. The whole park was revamped and now there are a few indoor gardens. The main attractions are the Super trees (artifical trees). There are also a few resturants.

 All photos are shot with EPM-1 and 7.5mm and 14-42 RII lens. I chose to wake in the morning 545am and made my way there. My target was to shoot the area during the first light to get the best lighting.
Again to highlight that photography is still about lighting. Many so call photographers still pursue HIGH Iso performance. In such case, I still uses the lowest iso200 (for EPM_1). The best image stabliser is still the old school tripod.For me it's still back to basic by chasing the natural light and continue to use basic cheap camera like the Olympus EPM-1.

Bintan Lagoon Resort

As continued from the last post, this will be more of the activities and scenes around this resort.
Basically, we took a ferry from Singapore Tenah Merah Ferry jetty to Bintan island. It took about 1 hr to reach there. Clearing the immigration was smooth and there was a bus transfer direct to the resort which took another 15mins. This resort is big and we had lunch in one of the new "by the sea" resturant. The rest of the days will be swimming and kids activities in the resort itself. Staff were friendly and helpful.

Magic Hour in Bintan Island

As it is the June School holidays, my wife and I had booked a 3 days stay in our neighbouring country, Indonesia Bintan Lagoon  resort.
Had a good time there and spent good quality time bonding with my children through games and kids activities. As for my photography equipment, when such trip comes, I am always happy that my system is the m4/3. These tiny system can be packed in my waist pouch and excess lens in my kids diaper bag. I brought the EPM-1, 20mm, 7.5mm fisheye and 14-42mm lens there. The G1 and 45mm were kept at home.

I had some time to capture the sunrise and sunset in the resort too. It require some last min preparation as I need to check the compass direction and waking up in the wee hours in the morning to capture the sunrise. These magic hour shots are done by EPM-1, 7.5mm fisheye and mounted a small flexi tripod. With a small camera and large sensor like the EPM-1, a smaller tripod is possible. ISO is kept at 200 and use a small aperture setting.