Steamboat Restaurant, Beach Road

There's a whole long line of steamboat restaurants along Beach Road, opposite Shaw Tower. Photo is taken looking down Liang Seah Street. Beach Road is behind the camera. 


Building on the left is a row of old shophouses, now converted to upscale restaurants. Vertical blue sign at the top middle, is a Tiger Beer advertisement. 

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f4, 1/30 seconds, ISO 6400.
• Manual exposure, center weighted metering, incandescent white balance.
• Picasa: Crop, straighten, auto contrast.

Furama City Centre Hotel

Between Chinatown and Clarke Quay. I remember it as being plain "Furama Hotel" but they seem to have grown into a chain so it's now the Furama City Centre Hotel. Website is http://www.furama.com/citycentre/ 

• Nikon D80, Sigma 20mm f1.8.
• At 20mm, f2.8, 1/30 seconds, ISO 100.
• Program exposure, center weighted metering, auto white balance.
• Picasa: Crop, straighten, graduated tint fake blue sky.

Singapore River, Electric Cruise Boat

Night, 9:30pm, next to the Singapore Parliament House. Lights on the left are reflections from the financial district skyscrapers, colored lights on the right are from restaurants along Boat Quay. You can see the driver (pilot? captain?) in a white shirt, on the right hand side of the photo (left of the boat). 

Boat is electric, but modeled after the traditional wooden "bumboat" diesel boats that have been used here for decades. The Marina Barrage (http://www.pub.gov.sg/Marina/Pages/default.aspx) was built a few years ago at the mouth of the river to turn the Singapore River into a reservoir for Singapore's domestic water supply. It stops sea water from flowing upriver during high tide. Diesel boats were considered too dirty for a reservoir, so all the boats are now electric. 

I think there's more than one river cruise service. This boat looks like it belongs to Singapore River Cruises and Leisure, http://www.rivercruise.com.sg/

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f2, 1/30 seconds, ISO 1600. Set maximum aperture, increase ISO until you get a reasonable shutter speed. 
• Program exposure, center weighted metering, incandescent white balance.
• Picasa: Crop, auto contrast.

Condominiums Near Upper East Coast Road

About four different condominiums (seven buildings), compressed together by the telephoto perspective.

• Nikon D7000, 18-200mm f3.5-5.6.
• At 82mm, f8, 1/250 seconds, ISO 100.
• Program exposure, center weighted metering, auto white balance.
• Picasa: Straighten, auto contrast, shadows.

Hawker Centre, Bedok

This is a local non air-conditioned version of a food court, next to Bedok Bus Interchange. The type, variety and quality of the food is basically the same as in a food court in a shopping centre: can be good, can be bad. Sometimes called a cooked food centre.

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f5.6, 1/60 seconds, ISO 800.
• Manual exposure, center weighted metering, auto white balance.
• Picasa: Crop, auto contrast.

East Coast Park, Aerial View

This is a long but thin (a few hundred meters) stretch of park and beach, stretching a few kilometers along the southeast shore. There are walking and cycling tracks along the whole length. It's always crowded on weekends. 

The ships are everywhere, nothing special about this stretch of coast. Lots of shipping goes through Singapore.

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f8, 1/250 seconds, ISO 100.
• Program exposure, center weighted metering, auto white balance.
• Picasa: Straighten, crop, auto contrast.

Victoria Junior College

This is the view from the canal that runs alongside the school.

Students and alumni call it VJ, not VJC (and are surprised when outsiders find it strange). The few alumni that I have met, are really proud of their school: school spirit seems strong. Website is http://www.vjc.moe.edu.sg/website/

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f11, 1/250 seconds, ISO 100.
• Program exposure, center weighted metering, auto white balance.
• Picasa: Straighten, auto contrast.