Centrepoint Shopping Centre, Night

One of the older and more well-known of the malls along Orchard Road. It's opposite Somerset MRT station. Anchor tenant is Robinsons. You can see the Robinsons display windows on the ground floor (unfortunately over-exposed).

The facade has changed, and the building renovated and extended but the taxi stand in front remains. There was a minor controversy over the taxi stand, the government saying that it blocked traffic flow, but the building's management said that it would affect business if removed. 

Webpage is http://www.fraserscentrepointmalls.com/malls/cp/index.asp

• D7000, 35mm f1.8
• At f1.8, ISO 400, 1/30 seconds
• Manual exposure, center-weighted metering, auto white balance
• Picasa: Straighten, auto contrast

PAP Election Rally at Choa Chu Kang Stadium

I'm estimating 5,000 people, less than half a football field. People brought their kids, took photos of them, like it was a family outing. I think many were just curious. Supposed to start at 7pm but most people came later. Actually started at 7:45 and lasted for two hours. Maybe 1/4 of the people left before 9pm.

I asked a policeman there if I could take photos. He said yes, "for personal use." So I asked if it was okay to post the photos on the Internet. He smiled and said that he had no authority to say, and walked away.

You can just make out parts of the PAP's (People's Action Party) logo on the flags, in case you were thinking that this was a crowd from another event and that I was making the whole story up.

• D7000, 35mm f1.8
• At f4, ISO 800, 1/125 seconds
• Manual exposure, center-weighted metering, auto white balance
• Picasa: Crop, auto contrast

Had to hold the camera above my head to get a good overview shot. Found out that it is harder to hold the camera steady this way. Normally 1/60 seconds is good enough but I had to go to 1/125. Stopped down to F4 for increased depth of field. Luckily it was bright, so I only had to go to ISO 800.

Posters for General Elections

This is outside the LRT station. Only saw about 10 posters and banners total, along a 600 meter stretch of road. A lot fewer than Malaysia.

PAP (ruling party, Lee Kuan Yew's party) didn't even put their name on the poster. Everyone knows their logo (same colors as Malaysia's DAP's "rocket", similar shape too). SDP (Social Democratic Party) was careful to spell out their name in three languages (Chinese, Malay, and Tamil but not English), plus give their URL. 

• D7000, 35mm f1.8
• At f2.4, ISO 100, 1/60 seconds
• Program exposure, center-weighted metering, auto white balance
• Picasa: Crop, auto contrast

Crawford Street Bridge Over Rochor River

Can't find the name of this bridge. It's unusually wide, so wide that park benches have been built on it. Aside from that, it's quite a standard design, similar to a few other bridges in Singapore.

Buildings in the background are the Citylights condominium. Small patch of red at the bottom center is an SBS public bus. 

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f5.6, 1/125 seconds, ISO 100.
• Program exposure, center weighted metering, automatic white balance.
• Picasa: Auto contrast.

Customs House, Marina Bay

The Customs House is the 3-storey white building with the lookout tower. Used to be a real customs (tax) house when this area was an active pier with boats. This is now prime real estate, next to Shenton Way and across the bay from Marina Bay Sands.

They've kept the original structure and renovated it to house upscale restaurants. You can just make out the alfresco dining at the top and by the water. Web page is http://thefullertonheritage.com/?page_id=80

Fullerton Bay Hotel is on the right (http://sgsnaps.blogspot.com/2011/03/fullerton-bay-hotel.html).

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f2, 1/30 seconds, ISO 1600.
• Manual exposure, center weighted metering, incandescent white balance.
• Picasa: Straighten.

Esplanade Theatres, Esplanade Bridge and Singapore Flyer, Night

You can see both domes of the Esplanade Theatres on the left, with the Pan Pacific Hotel and Millenia Tower in the background. Large Ferris Wheel on the right is the Singapore Flyer. Not sure what the building in the center background is, maybe the Mandarin Oriental or Ritz-Carlton Millenia. 

Bridge is the Esplanade Bridge, over which runs Esplanade Drive. It's part of the Formula 1 race Circuit. They didn't use to have colored lights under the bridge, which look pretty cool. The bridge is the reason why the Merlion was uprooted and moved to a spot about 100 meters away, next to One Fullerton (http://sgsnaps.blogspot.com/2011/04/one-fullerton-night.html). The bridge blocked the Merlion at its original location next to the Waterboat House.

Photo was taken from Esplanade Park. If you look closely, you can see a guy and a girl sitting on the wall on the bank of the river, on the left.Yes, the whole river has been concreted up.

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f3.3, 1/15 seconds, ISO 1600.
• Shutter priority, center weighted metering, incandescent white balance.
• Picasa: Auto contrast.

Aerial View of Marine Parade and Telok Kurau

Aerial view of Marine Parade (closer to the camera) and Telok Kurau (further away), looking north.

The complex of red-roofed buildings at the bottom left is Saint Patrick's School. The three tall buildings at the center are the Ocean Park condominium. Low-rise buildings in the middle are mainly private housing. Nearest MRT station is Kembangan, a few kilometers north.  

• Nikon D7000, 35mm f1.8.
• At 35mm, f9.5, 1/350 seconds, ISO 100.
• Program exposure, center weighted metering, auto white balance.
• Picasa: Crop, auto contrast, graduated tint fake purple sky.