Pretty Pictures

Some of you may know that I took part in this little photographic escapade called Eye é City with Kiwi and Yam. We spent the last day of 2004 triapsing around this little isle taking pictures, basically, which was a helluva lot of fun and landed us some real gems.

We found an old housing estate in Lim Chu Kang which the SAF had taken over for military training purposes, and wandered all over the buildings which were pretty much empty shells. It felt almost unreal, and you had to tread with a certain reverence, like you were in a ghost town. Chills would run up my spine when I thought about the fact that an entire neighborhood once lived there, and people lived out the highs and lows of their lives in the very buildings I trod in. The same buildings that were now nothing but bare concrete husks, with the occasional empty beer bottle from trespassing migrant laborers.

My favorite one is from there:



And I really like this one too:



You can tell I really have a thing for shooting through doors and windows.



My apologies if they look too dark on certain computers. I can't help it if everyone doesn't have a Mac...

The next two were taken at a jetty at Lim Chu Kang.





I love the fact that the dark clouds in the sky would've made for a pretty shitty color picture, but they just look so damn cool in black and white. I should shoot in B&W more. It tends to lend a timeless quality to things.

This was at the Chinese Cemetary in Choa Chu Kang. Yes, here in Singapore our cemetaries are racist.



I also love the last two, for different reasons. The first I love because it's the best "street" picture I've ever taken.



And this second one I love because of all the shadows, and the low angle of the light source, a bare fluorescent tube, which makes everything look so damn mysterious and cool. I also think it's pretty ballsy to submit a picture which is mostly just pure black. OK, maybe not pure black. If you have a good monitor you'll be able to see some detail in the shadows. We'll see what the judges think though.



On another note, I saw Alexander today. But that's a story for another post, since it's now two in the morning.