+ Pix07 | My Sony

Some of the photos I took using my cell-phone camera instead of the my Panasonic FZ10 Digital Camera.

Surprisingly my Sony Erricson S700i Cell-Phone of only 1.3 Mega Pixel capability, but with such wonderful results as far as I am concern.

So far I am very please with the outdoors picture for daylight. The colour and contrast are perfect for me.

It however becomes grainy in low light, especially night shots, but still good shots for brightly lit city skylines. Like any camera, the phone can produce nice night shots when placed on a stable top.

This cell-phone has been my trusted companion whenever I get to see something picture worthy for my own personal collection. So convenient for me and never regretted forking out a rather large sum of money to own it.

A good phone and a bonus performance camera too.

Below are the different places I took using just my cell-phone at different conditions.

+ Pix06 | Space Station

I have seen it many a times, a "star" like no other whenever I am out at night.

I notice that it is always the nearest it seems, the biggest compared to the rest that are flickering in the night sky, the brightest amongst the many faint ones. This one does not flicker.

I believe it is the International Space Station, not a star. When all the stars are not visible on a cloudy night, only this one shines alone. It seemed to get bigger as I noticed it through these few years.

I kept pointing it out to friends about it whenever we chanced upon it, but they seem indifferent to the sight and especially its phenomenal feat behind it all.

Maybe they knew this so long that it became another common item in the scheme of life and its surroundings.

Thanks to Blogger I get to post my insignificant observations and mostly trivial entries, but at least those are mine.

I got to see it again through my bedroom window. This time at dawn. I posted one in my Abode Dawn Star blog to remember how I felt seeing it from my bedroom window when I woke up.

A stark sight, shining so brightly at dawn alone. On closer scrutiny with my glasses on, the skies were in fact scattered with fainting stars against a brightening sky as morning was breaking.

The photos below were taken at about 6:30am from a dark sky to a beautiful blue.

+ Pix05 | Orchard Road

Now for another update of my Click! Singapore in my Photography blog section, a fresh look at Orchard Road, Singapore's main tourist shopping belt.

You can get practically any original, well-known, branded goods here. The best hotels and the best restaurants, pubs, etc.

My old haunt when I was courting my wife, so very long ago.

We hardly come here anymore since whatever we need, we can get them at the heartland's malls - posh and with varied goods just like in upmarket shops just a few bus stops away from our home.

A common sight for almost every HDB estate, directly infront of most MRT or Mass Rapid Transit train stations.

I was asked to revamped a little my wife's display in her booth in front of Shaw House where she is participating in the Wedding Fair event.

After all was done and a few hours had past, I decided to take a stroll and took photos of the famous buildings along Orchard Road. Not all the building though, because it is a very long stretch of road with major shopping centres on both sides of the road.

I only walked passed a few blocks and came double back as the time was up for my wife to close her booth.

Along the padestrian walkway, there were many international buskers. From American Red Indians playing their ethnic songs released on CDs to Chinese Contortionsists.

A talented Country singing American guitar-man to clowns on unicycles.

Day shot turned out alright, but night shots were kind of grainy and shaky since I set the film to 400 instead of 200 or auto, and I did not bring with me a tripod.

Anyway, the place and buildings have changed and revamped a lot since courting days there.

+ Pix04 | The Esplanade

A night family outing with photos taken at The Esplanade, Theater By The Bay on 4th Mar 2005. After sumptious dinner at Marina Bay, we took a stroll soaking in the fresh sea breeze as we looked-on the city skyline.

Singapore's The Arts, venue of the elite theater companies and symphony orchestras around the world are staged. The building looked very distinguished with its glass "spikes" that look like the king of Asian fruit, the durian.

Cross over the bridge of the Singapore River where the commercial and banking district is. Greeting the river and its bumboat visitors is colonial building that formerly housed the Singapore Parliament until it was turned into a 6-Star Fullerton Hotel right at the waterfront.

Guarding the river is the Singapore Tourist Icon, the mystic Merlion, spouting out water into the river.

+ Pix03 | Sungei Buloh

Some of the photos taken at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve situated in Neo Tiew Crescent off Kranji Way in Woodlands, north-west tip of Singapore on 10 December 2005.

Went to visit the flora and fauna - both local residents and migratory ones at the wetlands during school break.

Outing with my son and his cousin who stayed with us for 2 weeks keeping Danish accompanied doing the XBox marathon. Wife, Azi missed this outings as she was tending to her Christmas Bazaar booth at OUB Centre.

My second trip there, but worth the long journey by bus. We were caught-up with too many things that we forgot the time and returned back to the visitors centre second last after closing hours. Phew!

The few photos here and coupled with my inexperience in photo-taking, will not do justice to this great place. Will have to post a few more in the future.

+ Pix02 | MacRitchie Reservoir

The whole family felt a little adventurous after reading the news about the new attraction in the heart of the nature reserve in Bukit Timah.

The Central Catchment Nature Reserve a buzz, not with insects but nature-loving Singaporeans flocking to MacRitchie Reservoir, one of the entrances to the Central Catchment Area. On 8th February 2005, 3 of us set to reach the canopy walk or Treetop Walk.

The suspension bridge sponsored by HSBC Bank is 250m long and reaches a height of 27m at its highest is by no mean an easy feat to get to. It took about an hour on foot, tracking into the primary and secondary forest and another back out.

We got a good exercise tracking before we got to the bridge, and on our way back, we walked through an almost endless boardwalk downhill to finally get out to the main road, flagged a cab to dinner next.

+ Pix01 | Botanical Garden

Some of the photos taken on 4th March 2005 afternoon at the Singapore Botanic Garden when we went on a family outing.

Took a taxi from with with my son, Danish and met my wife, Azi at Swan Lake.

You think you live in a small dot in the world map, a land called Singapore, complaining nowhere to go on weekends, but believe it or not, that was my first step into the garden in my whole life of 39 years.

I "amaze" myself sometimes. My family is the one that allows me to give myself time to stop, and smell the roses.

+ Pix00 | Click! Singapore

Singapore - City Lights from The Esplanade at Dusk

This section of my blog layed stagnant for very long until I met a blogger from UK. A comment left by Ellen M Johns of Coffee Granules has triggered me to post photos of scenes around Singapore.

I will start posting regularly for everyone to enjoy, especially my family to relive our happy moments together and lift our spirits whenever we get stuck at home on weekdays, rainy days or days that just sucked.

Photos taken while on our family outings. Not really about photography per say, as I have no knowledge on photography techniques, with cameras and its supposed settings... whatever.

And please never to compare my photos to my idol photographer Tim Halberg from A-Photo-A-Day. If you have not been to his blog, you should! Everyday-photos turned gallery pieces. Just awesome to my eyes.

If you like photos of sceneries on an island, Sister Celtic of Lopez Island Life should be refreshing. George took great photos of the wildlife there, while Sister Celtic fills in the details. A great, honest combination.

And if you would like poetry to go with simple yet beautiful photos, J Andrews Lockhart of Past Tense is the perfect read to trigger your imagination and provoke your thoughts.

For me, just with my trusted Panasonic Fz10 Digital Camera set to automatic focus that does most of the job. The rest are from lots of luck and family fun!