Abacus

My dad taught me how to use the abacus when I was young. The abacus my dad used was almost as big as a standard keyboard. I particularly like the clacking sound produced by the seeds knocking against one another. Subsequently, I joined my primary school Abacus Club but that was when I lost interest in abacus too. It had become a competitive and stressful experience when the students tried to compete with one another to see who was the fastest to come back with the correct answer.
Look carefully at the way the fingers are bent when pushing the seeds. That was how I was taught to position my fingers too, which I believe should be the correct way. 

Pigeons

These 3 pigeons are enjoying the afternoon sun at the water fountain in front of Victoria Memorial Hall. I'd just pressed the shutter when one flew to the other platform. Soon after, another pigeon followed too. 

Black & White

My first foray into black & white pictures. These are taken inside the Victorial Memorial Hall through the shutters which have blocked the access to the second level.

Black or White

These are the 2 statues of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles at Empress Place. The white colour statue is situated along Singapore River where Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles first arrived on this shore on 28th January 1819. The black statue can be found outside the Victoria Memorial Hall.

7 of Project 365: Through the Crack

I was wondering around Empress Place during lunch when I caught sight of this rows of names along the exterior wall of the Asian Civilisation Museum. 

ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: 3.5
Focal Length: 20mm

 Flash Used: No 

Honey I shrunk the ant!

It took quite a while for the camera (GF1) to auto-focus on what looks like the stamen of a plant. Even my mom commented that I took a bit long to take this picture. After doing the half-press a couple of times, I decided to press the shutter and this is what I catpured, which didn't turn out very well because the stamen is off-focus. But when I'm going through the picture on my PC, I actually see an ant underneath the stamen. This is what I call serendipity!

6 of Project 365: Silhouette

I was trying to take a picture of the stairs when this couple appeared so I just included them, which makes the picture more interesting. This is taken with one of my favourite "My Colour" setting in Silhouette. This gives the picture an almost black & white feel but more haunting with deeper shadow.

ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/400 sec
Aperture: 1.7
Focal Length: 20mm

 Flash Used: No