Showing posts with label chinese new year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chinese new year. Show all posts

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Snakingly beautiful



Designers hope that the yellow snake, 300m long and made from 850 yellow sky lanterns hovering South Bridge Road, will set a record for the largest sculpture made from sky lanterns.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Snake squared



Made up of about 5,000 hand-crafted red cube lanterns, this red snake is a 108m-long figure stretches from Upper Cross Street to Teo Hong Road.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Sausages for Chinese New Year



Nice contrast in colour with yesterday's post!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Chinese New Year is slithering in





Welcoming the year of the snake.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Year of the Dragon: Should we be optimistic?


This statue was placed at the Buddah Tooth Relic temple for the New Year celebration.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Chinese New Year


It is now time to enjoy the seasonal delicacies!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

So Long Tiger!


I kept this little fellow from last year and thought it would be perfect to close the year of the tiger!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Chinatown - A Spiritual Parenthesis

D700 60mm ISO800 f/3.2 1/15

The light was low but I could not resist taking a picture of this incense holder. I really liked the hazy purple stick forest with the curved dragon in the foreground. A spiritual parenthesis after depicting some rather commercial aspects of Chinatown.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Monday, February 15, 2010

Red Lanterns & Pineapple - Chinatown - Singapore

D700 60mm ISO400 f/2.8 1/30

Chinese New Year paraphernalia: the typical red lanterns and pineapples.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Happy Lunar New Year Of The Tiger !


D700 50mm ISO400 f/2.8 1/60

I wish to all followers of this blog and to their families the best of Health, Happiness and Success for this Chinese New Year of the Tiger!

The Colours of Chinatown


D700 70-300mm zooming ISO400 f/11 1/4


Having fun with this shot, zooming with a low shutter speed. These lanterns just screamed to be captured. The question was how? It was windy and the sky was dark. So I added movement using this technique.