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Lines and Patterns at the Singapore Changi International Airport departure hall.
A colour picture of a church that is monochrome by design.
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Black and White
Apps used: Camera+
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Phoneography Monday Challenge: Nature
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App used: Camera+
Post-processing done on my PC.
I was taking a picture to show you my favourite weed/flower. But the dog kept nosing under the bushes.
Identify yourself!
So I had to stop and check what’s up with her. And then I found this pair of eyes staring back at us.
Perhaps it’s mean to say this but it’s always funny to see the cats go all “red alert” when there’s a dog near :P
No cats were hurt in this photo shoot. I petted street cats regularly in my teens, but it changed when I got a dog. LOL.
Captioned “sacred” because I submitted for that theme for August Break 2013 on Instagram.
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Challenger’s Choice (Night-time street photography) – hosted by Lens and Pens by Sally, Gracie Nobiya, details here.
Apps used: Camera+, Snapseed, Whitagram, Moldive (text), Instagram (amaro filter)
Got my hands on the new $1 coin.
Phoneography Monday Weekly Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Camera+
The one on the left is the new third series $1 coin that is replacing the old second series coin on the right. Series 2 has been in circulation for over 25 years. The new $1 coin which is bigger can no longer fit into the pay-per-use supermarket carts, so it initially did cause us some confusion, until we realised that we should use the new 50-cents coin from the third series.
The interesting feature about our $1 coins is the octagonal frame within the round shape, which according to urban legend, is there for fengshui reasons. It ensures that every citizen will carry an evil-warding bakua on their persons and bring prosperity to the nation.
I do prefer the second series coins, which Sydney describes as carrying a garden city in our pockets. The $1 coin sports the periwinkle flower. You can see the full set of coins with the corresponding photograph of the plants/flowers featured on Sydney’s post – Garden City on the coins. It is a pretty concept, I think. :P I also find the execution of the embossed design on the second series more refined compared to the third. Or it could be that the dirt trapped on the old coin shows up the design better. :P Haha!
The third series coins feature the national icons or landmarks of Singapore. Pictures comparing coin design to actual here – Singapore’s Third Series Coins.
Anyway, out of the set of coin denominations, I do actively collect 5-cent coins. It seemed the aluminium-bronze plating helps to turn my hydrangea flowers from pink to blue (which I prefer), so I have been throwing these garden themed coins into the plant pot to aid the flowering. :P Muahahahahaha!
None of the third series coins are aluminium-bronze plated though. :( Gah!
Anyway, here’s another round object belonging to a creature that had Mr P and I running in circles for the last few nights every time it rains or the wind howls. @_@ I am a very tired human.
Completely disappear has done a macro post on Japanese coins before that I liked.
Reference
– http://www.mas.gov.sg/newcoins
– http://www.mas.gov.sg/NewCoins/Third-Series/Features.aspx
– http://www.mas.gov.sg/NewCoins/Third-Series/FAQs.aspx
When I was a child, my dream was to go to university. If you think about it, it would make sense, wouldn’t it? After a few years of working, I longed for a job closer to nature (out of the office) and wondered how one could become a landscape architect. My friend laughed and said it must be the hay fever speaking. It was too late. As adults, we have too many other worries. A few years ago, I met a lady travelling in Canada. She must have been a number of years older than me and she was a landscape architect; it was a mid-career change. I have often wondered, if mid-career changes are just easier to engineer in another country other than Singapore.
Flowers in the Sky
I found a mirror in my iPhone,
an app that worked magic.
It made a scrap of nature symmetrical,
look unnatural, less organic.
Weekly Phoneography: Nature [challenge details here]
Apps used: Gorillacam, Camera360, Snapseed, Camera+
App effects: There is a mix of filtered and unfiltered photos here.
I played with this,
creating arrangements that decorate.
A virtual landscaping tool;
it does not propagate.
Foreshadow
For every bloom that unfurls in the sky,
every leaf that uncurls unseen by man,
every cell resounding the cry of nature:
every beginning foreshadows every end.
Every blossom drying out,
every petal a recital
of every falling back to the earth,
an unending cycle.
Close up
And so in the best way they know how
each photographer’s eye will capture,
the essence of life, no different from
the tiniest purveyor of nectar.
Nature
And if the weed goes unseen
It will not matter,
Nature’s serendipity gets discovered,
sooner or later.
Though often overshadowed
by sculptural bits of plant matter
nurtured by human design
to impress and to flatter.
P/S: I thought it was time for a bit of bad poetry to pop out :P
