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Just an exercise to make the lines more obtrusive to the eye than the subject.
I took a picture which I thought was ideal for the theme of lines, but the resulting image ended up sub-optimal in the brightness and clarity. Here is how mobile photo editing “saved” the picture and gave it a different life as an abstract image.
Following the tutorial, I also have more photographs of the same subject from different POVs ;)
“Oh, grandmother, what big eyes you have!”
“All the better to see you with.”
“Oh, grandmother, what big hands you have!”
“All the better to grab you with!”
“Oh, grandmother, what a horribly big mouth you have!”
“All the better to eat you with!”
*chuckle*
Accompanying text: Excerpt from Little Red Cap, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Phoneography Challenge: Macro – Donna
App: Camera+
People who are unfamiliar or have a fear of dogs may see the dog as the sum of its parts – the staring eyes, the long black claws, the gaping mouth, the sniffing nose atop the fangs, but most of all the unpredictability that comes with an unfamiliar animal.
But what I see is a lovely canine companion, fun-loving, playful but also patient and smart enough to put up with all sorts of non-dog things I make her do, like playing dead and high-five. How else could I get a dog to let me take pictures of her parts at such close range? :)
#1, #2 Lorong Halus Bridge – gateway to the Lorong Halus Wetlands.
#3, #4 A small bridge in the World of Plants, Gardens by the Bay
#5, #6 OCBC Skywalk in Supertree Grove, Gardens by the Bay
Out of the set, the OCBC Skywalk in the Supertree Grove looks the most otherworldly to me. Do you agree?
But I do find that stripped out of colour, black and white images can sometimes take on an otherworldly quality.
It only requires imagination to see the Lorong Halus bridge as a structure in an alien mining terrain for example. But in real life it is but a foot bridge with steel bars that zig-zag along its overall wavy frame across the river to a wetlands park. We visited quite a while back so you can see from the bridge the construction still taking place in its environs. Previously this area was a landfill site for close to 30 years.
#3 and #4 can perhaps depict an alien forest where strange creatures lurk unseen. But perhaps I am pushing my luck with this :P
Now here’s a not so otherworldly image populated by humans :P
OCBC Skywalk (picture above, foreground) and the Marina Bay Sands SkyPark (background) – These integral connecting links between the Supertrees and the three towers of the Marina Bay Sands respectively afford birds’ eye view of the Gardens by the Bay.
Anyway, we are lucky the air quality returned to good levels in the last week so we can be out and about more carefree-ly. The Skywalk looked solid, but once I got my feet on it, I do still feel quite obvious trembling and there were times that my hands feel weak gripping my iPhone tightly, haha!
Dogs are allowed in the open areas of park land belonging to NParks, but I suspect not the Skywalk since this requires ticket admission. As required by the law, all dogs need to be leashed. We couldn’t bring Donna along yesterday since we were intending to take our parents to the Cloud Forest, one of the two domed conservatories that require ticket admission for humans only. So poor Donna had to stay at home.
We are expecting the haze to return end of the month, since Aug-Sep is typically the haze season. It is not inconceivable for the PSI to go to as high as Malaysia has experienced in the past since it’s really highly dependent on where the winds have a mind to take the haze to. So yes, if you are in Singapore, make the best out of the improved air this month!! You know what they say, make hay while the sun shines. How’s that for being optimistic! :P
Note: All photos taken with my iPhone, except for #7 which is a poor quality capture using Mr P’s Samsung Galaxy phone. So it is highly edited to death! :P So you’ll understand why it looks kind of artificial. :P Bwahahahaha!
Somehow the image of an woodcutter chopping up a tree and yelling “timber!” as the tree fell is ingrained in my memory, even if there is no woodcutting culture or industry here. Hah! That’s the power of the media for you.
Anyway, the tree cutting has started. Here’s the guy who will take the tree apart, limb by limb.
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Nature – I seem to be making a habit to take pictures of man and/vs nature nowadays.
Apps: GorillaCam, Snapseed, Camera+ (Cyanotype and Toy Camera filters)
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