My son was given a project. To watch otters in their habitat. I’ve seen them around the Marina Bay Area but that was a long time ago. A great buddy offered to bring us around Pasir Ris park as he saw them quite often in that area. That was the beginning of our hunt for otters (no we aren’t gonna eat them, just capture them)- using my camera of course!
Sadly, this time round we didn’t get to see any otters, but we saw quite a few others animals. Enjoy
I was once again blown away by Jon Chiang’s cityscape photos when he recently posted on fb. That lit the flame in my fujifilm XT1 and the not so often used 12mm Samyang lens. So i asked where he was heading today. Kranji Beach he said. Can i join you? Sure he said. Let’s meet 0630hrs there.
Long ago, i joined him and a few landscape hunters from SG and i totally forgot how far they would have gone to get a shot. In this case, it was close to half a leg deep.
Guess what i wore? Jordans. Yes you read me right people. Jordans to the muddy waters it was. Go hard or go home i told myself. Where Jon was far out getting all the good shots, here i was slowly taking foot by foot further out.
Yes, i managed to get a few shots. I guess shooting from the same point would not really be useful right? Afterall, we all want our own shots to be special. So here are mine.
Fujifilm xt1, 12mm samyang lens
Cute branch for my foreground. I also had my Haida 3 stop filter.
Silhouette is also beautiful don’t you agree?
Even my hasselblad 500cm needed some exercise.
This was taken using my hp. Edited with instgram.
So these are my beautiful Jordans.
I had fun even though it was all muddy and wet. I will come back again with better preparation. Always a next time isn’t that right Jon?
I took a walk around my neighbourhood and managed to snap some pictures with my Fujifilm XT-1 and the 35mm 1.4. Thank God for a safe, clean and fruitful country. I pray that we, the citizens, do not take these things for granted. After all, if we do not help each other, who else will?
Thank you Singapore for being great!
May you continue to shine on the map of the world and unite others around you.
I want to give a shout out to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. For paving the way to making Singapore what it is today, a safe, clean and green country for all its people to live it.
I may not have lived in the past before the major changes but I was here when Woodlands MRT was not built yet, where a jungle once covered the land, where buses were non air conditioned and we always had to lift up and pull down the windows. Those were the days when we had no internet, we were downstairs playing at the playgrounds and making friends with the neighbours all around.
These days, all we Singaporeans do is to complain about how terrible our lives are. How this person is bad or how that place is terrible. Not realising how blessed we are living here. Many others out there have had it worse than us to be honest. I have friends from all around the world (Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Pakistan, China, UK and more). Although we don’t have the best of the best when it comes to scenery and an outdoor mountain or valley, I believe the people make the country great.
Let us unite as one and really help make it a wonderful place to live in. Let us protect it with out lives so that no one can drive us out. Let’s keep it clean and green so that our future generations can be blessed. Let us continue to pray for its prosperity and safety so that we can sleep in peace, knowing tomorrow will be a lovely day for not only the young, but also the old.
Enjoy the pictures.
6 shots taken using
Camera: Fujifilm XT1 with
Lens: Samyang 12mm
Settings: F11, ISO200 and a
Props: haida 3 stop filter,
thrown into photoshop CC and this was what came out.
Edited in Lightroom CC.
Enjoy
I was determined to capture more images of the beautiful Singapore, but posting pictures of just Lower Selatar was definitely insufficient and I had to move out of my comfort zone. Thanks to Vince and Zul, I did. Singapore may not really have a lot of nature, no mountains or fountain streams like many other countries do, but it still has its own beauty and I cannot ask for more.
Truth be told, I am not really the sunrise kinda guy. Watching it rise is beautiful without a doubt, but what draws me to keep getting out there with a pokemon’s motto “Gotta catch them all” are the lovely skies and the clouds. They change constantly and are a feast to the yearning eyes that desire magnificence. The beauty of God’s creation is breath taking and as Thomas Heaton would say “Absolutely stunning”!
The hunger for capturing more lives on and I will continue to feast your eyes with God’s beauty. Do look forward to them!
Taken with Fujifilm XT-1 and Samyang 12mm with the haida 3 stop filter, edited using Lightroom CC.
If you have any other beautiful locations in Singapore which you like me to capture, feel free to drop me a comment!
God bless!
Ezekiel Kok
Time spent with your family is very important. It doesn’t matter how you spent your childhood, be it alone or with family, never let the next generation grow up feeling lonely or secluded.
On this wonderful Vesak day, I am glad I spent time with my wife and son just taking a short walk downstairs. It is really special to see your own flesh and blood growing up in front of your very own eyes. Trust me when I say it because it will not happen again.
Unless, you have another kid coming along the way 🙂
Taken with Fujifilm XE-1, 18mm fujinon lens.
There is beauty that God has given us. We just need to get out there and find it! Praise God for such a lovely view, an absolutely stunning image don’t you think?
Taken with my lovely Fujifilm XT-1 and the all so lovely Samyang 12mm. I also used a Haida 3 stopper.
Indeed, I am satisfied! A great reason to live life to the fullest when God provides for us! Let us not waste life but use it to the greatest potential God has blessed us with! Seek Him if you feel empty inside! You will not go wrong!
Blessed Sunday!
Ezekiel Kok
Ezekiel Kok Photography 