For the first time during the pandemic this year, the celebration of the annual River Hongbao series will be moving to Garden by the Bay, the celebration had been brought to the masses from the people at Singapore Federation Chinese Clans Associations, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Singapore Press Holdings, the People's Association and Singapore Tourism Board since its inception in 1987. Here are some shots from previous held.
Thursday 28th January went and attended a class for portraiture shooting in monochrome and the models are all the attendees like you shoot me and I shoot you as for lighting used was a simple torchlight to shape the light in a different position like shining from above, side lighting. Thank you, AL Lee, of Ourshutterjourney for giving us the opportunity to learn and that was fun will be looking toward another class offering different things that we might come across in our photography journey.
During the Light to Night Festival, one does not contend enough to have shot these pictures over and over again because there are not much of events held during this period that the reason why photographers tend to go back again and again.
The Marina Barrage is a dam built with the confluence of 5 rivers across the Marine Channel between Marine East and South. The purpose of the dam is to be able to be self-sufficient for our water needs when our water agreements with our neighbour Malaysia expires. It was first conceptualised in 1987 by our late Lee Kuan Yew and construction of the barrage started in 2005, turning the Kallang Basin and Marina Bay into a new downtown freshwater reservoir to provide water supply, flood control and a new lifestyle attraction which required the relocation of Clifford Pier to Marine South Pier. The construction took 3 years and was officially open in October 2008 which is also our 15th reservoir and the 1st in the city.
Once the grandest private residence in Singapore located in the heart of East Coast Road along Karikal Lane once belongs to the cattle merchant Moona Kadir Sultan for his Karikal Mahal Palace named after his birthplace native town of Karikal in South India. After the war, the building was renovated into 20 rooms called Grand Hotel which opened in 1947, marketing as a seaside within walking distance and later the ownership was under the Lee Rubber Group. In 1973 due to the land reclamation in the vicinity, the road was extended and the hotel was sliced into two plot with the road Still Road South running through it and in 2009 the building was put on the conservation list in 2016 the building was converted into Odyssey Global Preschool and Pats Schoolhouse and operated opposite each other.
The Civic District is Singapore first heritage trails which were launched in 1999 and is comprised of two separate routes the first cover Padang, Esplanade Park (formerly knows at Queen Elizabeth Walk) the other covers Fort Canning Hill, Dobhy Ghaut and the Museum district and also the Jubliee Walk during SG50.
