Sony Cybershot HX100V - my photos

This post is not about any particular place in Singapore. When you click on the photo below, the slideshow will bring you through photos that I have taken with my new camera, the Sony Cybershot HX100V.

Singapore Botanic Garden

This morning I tested the Casio Exilim Z330 at the Rainforest Walk in the grounds of the Singapore Botanic Garden. Before that, we shared a cup of ginger tea at Adam Road Food Court after a breakfast of mee siam, lontong and roti prata.

Christmas Trees light-up in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

We went there with our kids and friends and their kids. Getting educational institutions and corporations to take part in this activity is a jolly great idea and makes the Singapore Botanic Gardens a place to take the family even at night. Not too late though for the festive mood was not present when we were there at around 10 o'clock.

The good thing was there were very few people and we almost had the whole garden to ourselves and we could take our time to look at the tree decorations one by one but I feel that the trees would take on a different glow if there were people crowding around them admirng and posing for photos and generating more noise and excitement. I may dislike crowed places but this is one time and place where I think I would have preferred to be there when there are more people. The atmosphere will be very different from the empty and almost eerie kind of feeling I had that night walking around the place.

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Singapore Botanic Gardens

When the sun is about to turn in for the night, its rays are golden and when you catch them at the right place and time, you will see how this earth is being blessed with their brilliance.

I like this time of the day because shadows are long and slim and form interesting shapes on the ground.

When the golden rays expire, everything tend to look dull and muted.

How nice if Chopin's music fills the air as one strolls through the garden.

Colours remain even though things around are lacklustre in appearance because the sun has taken away their shine.

The camera records details faithfully. One just needs a steady hand to take shots like this:
Fading, fading, the light was going

the flowers mourned the day's passing

the people began to leave for home

when the sun no longer shone.

The Singapore Botanic Garden

It was a hot day and it was noon time. It was a spur of the moment decision to go to the Singapore Botanic Gardens instead of settling for the cool comfort of some shopping complex. I was not alone for there were many visitors and I was glad that despite the heat I managed to take many photographs. Then the rain came in torrents. That was okay with me as well.

Green is good for the eyes

Green is the colour of the gardens that soothe the eyes and nourishes the soul.