Raffles Marina..finally all geared up

Went to Raffles Marina, all thanks for Fionis who offered to drive while on Garden leave...Bock joined us for this outing as well...

It was a private yatch club and with the word private, we were chased and monitored like mad by the security. "No taking Photos....Cannot point there....are you a member....got ask permission???"

Kind of irritating...but by sun set, the situation changed after chatting with one of the security guard...It must be due to my charisma...

Weather was so humid

We were lucky to see the Galeón Andalucia which is an exact replica of a seventeenth-century Spanish Galleon of six decks which formed the fleets that, for more than two and a half centuries, crossed the Atlantic Ocean (“La Carrera de Indias”), and linked New Spain (Mexico) with Manila across the Pacific Ocean (“El Galeón de Manila”), every year.

The crew was busy as they are leaving the port...

this should be the only lady crew on board the ship

The photographer on the ship...caught him sniping a few of my pictures...

The ship started leaving under the beautiful sun set...

Leaving behind the empty port with the sunset...

Took one last shot of this light house...

Wairon Farm....Orchids Phalenopsis

It was my first trip to visit a local orchid farm. Went with the arofanatics nursery guys who showed me lots of hospitality at the farm as if it was their own farm.

Wairon specialise in Phalenopsis, so basically this is the main species that i actually went for.

This was what i saw when i stepped into the farm...according to the guys, these are plants that will be wholesale to markets..and flowers cut will be sold at supermarkets.

Mutated Orchids which will only blossom once a year...and nothing more.

A very nice but expensive one...

This is another kind of Phalenopsis...the flower is small but the amount make up for it sizes...

Unlike normal orchids, Phalenopsis bud and flower has a very fragrance smell..the older the plant, the stronger the smell.

A tour around wairon farm

Hanging phalenopsis all over..some already belong to people who rented a space there to keep the phalenopsis

This is my first Phalenopsis...name Bellina..

It still a one flower plant but with good care...it should blossom till a very nice plant!

And here we go over and over

Red tapes are everywhere but i got to agree that my Division has alot of red tapes...

So much so i felt like cutting them up and apparently, people always love to hear it from other people instead of the staff within the Division. I cannot understand why people would go all out to make things inflexible. What do you achieve with that???

Sigh...work gets really annoying at times, but i will try to stay as positive as i can.

Beautiful Orchids

Mum brought 2 pots of orchids home and somehow trigger my little interest in them.

Went through some forums and discover that orchids isnt too difficult to keep and that is if you understand them well enough.

Dendrobiums is the most easily found in the market and supposingly the easiest of the many species. I know by reading this blog entry, it somehow makes me looked old from all these hobbies that i own but its really interesting and it compliment my photography passion as well, i love shooting pictures of flowers.

So here are some of the beautiful bloom of the orchids we have at home.

About to full blossom

Night shoots...full blossom

Sepia background

My other dendrobiums

My mini dendrobiums gotten from Geylang east.

The buds

Testing my macro lens, 55mm f2.8 ais, as well..

Full Blossom

Going to Wairon farm this afternoon and one of my forum friends sold me a nice bellena...

Unlike dendrobiums, phal are much more classy and the flower produce a nice scent....wait for my next posting!

More pictures

Apparently, i thought this would be my last roll of film before i gave it a stop till i get my own scanner. Scanning at shops is really very expensive till i think i wanted to give it up.

But just when i thought im giving it up and after many days of not entering Clubsnap forum, i miraculously by accident went in and saw this sale on canoscan 8800F....its the scanner i wanted to get but too expensive and now the seller was selling for just half the price of the retail!
Furthermore, it was so fated that the seller just posted 5 mins ago...and im the first to offer and confirmed.

So im back to film again..and happily shooting and scanning!

Okay i just gotten my elitechrome 100 slides last week..and there are some old pictures i took of the kampong Buangkok which i have neatly updated in my previous post.

http://jackson-myphilosophy.blogspot.com/2010/05/singapore-last-kampong-lorong-buangkok.html

These are some pictures i took over the weekend on vesak day! and some random street shots.
I really love my 55mm f1.2 lens..its extremely nice!








We went Taka....for our GSS spree

Sis n BIL


Choosing for my nephew..n talking about my nephew, he is super lucky as im going to give him a good photo shoot!














I love this picture the most..the little girl was holding on to her granny throughout the times.

For a bigger picture, please click here

Some slides...Elitechrome 100, this is one of the nicest slides i have used... give nice brown color, nice blue, nice green....no yellow!