Night Photography on a Rainy Night

Mount Imbiah Battery Command Post

It's December 2015 and it seems Monsoon season has arrived here in Singapore with many raining for the past 2 weeks. Big downpours and thunderings. Last night I was in Sentosa with 2 other friends who joined me at Mount Imbiah Battery for a night photography session. It turned out to be a disappointing wet night. The above photo is one of 2 proper night photos we made before it started to rain. It stopped and we decided to carry on, as we proceed to the gun emplacement area to make this night photo – experimenting with light-drawing effect.

Battery Gun Emplacement

I'm not really into light-drawings and no harm doing it for fun sake. The twirling green light trail was created by my friend with a green color light stick. Pinkish-violet cellophane paper was used to light-paint the whole emplacement. Immediately after this is made, it started to rain again. We took shelter and waited but the rain got bigger.

While waiting for the rain to stop, we did some interesting light-drawings and here's one of the best ones after a few attempts.

As the rain begun to drizzle, we packed up and left the place quickly. Guess we have to come back on another date during the dry season for more night photographs.

Airstream Trailers Are In Town!

Good evening fellow night dwellers!

Tonight I want to share with you my new nocturnal work of these American made travel trailers. Yes they are in town! Come aboard and see for yourself.

Decommissioned British Military Fort – Batu Berlayar AMTB Battery

Good evening Night Dwellers! Tonight is the night that I'm extremely excited to share with you on my new nocturnal work on a decommissioned British military fort – Batu Berlayar AMTB Battery! Viewing pleasure is yours after the jump.

Airstream Travel Trailers - A Teaser

Good evening night dwellers!

A few nights ago, a friend of mine informed me of this place where he happened to come across these Airstream Travel Trailers. After he showed me a couple of images he took with his phone camera, I got totally excited. So we made our way there last night. It's scarce to find these American made trailers here in Singapore and there are a total of 8 trailers parked in a vacant car park. They are currently undergoing refurbishment perhaps to be rented out as mobile food stalls.

More night photographs to share in December.

Sime Road Machine-Gun Pillbox

New nocturnal work on a decommissioned machine-gun pillbox located along Sime Road. This pillbox was constructed in the 1930s as part of the British preparation for war in Singapore before the Second World War broke out on the island.

PHOTO PRINTS FOR SALE!!

Good evening fellow night dwellers! I am so thrilled to announce that I'm offering 6 of my night photographs for sale on my website.

Each photo print size is 12 inch x 18 inch. Printed edge to edge without white border on 310gsm Canson® Photo Lustre Premium RC (Resin Coated) photo paper.

Should you want to purchase other night photographs on my website other than these six, do email me the photo titles as well as your contact details i.e. name, email address and delivery address. 

For overseas order, please contact me for shipping cost details. For local delivery, there's a postage fee of SGD$5.00. All payment is available via PayPal.

Now is the right time to get some of your holiday shopping started or buy that print you have been eyeing!

Photo of the Night - National Gallery Singapore

National Gallery Singapore

Formerly known as The Supreme Court. The newly renovated National Gallery Singapore will be officially opened on 24 November 2015 Tuesday.

Apple iPhone 6+ on Ztylus Wide Angle Lens. Made in Slow Shutter Cam app and post-processed in Snapseed 2.0.

Decommissioned British Military Fort - A Teaser

No. 2 Director Tower

Good evening all night dwellers!

Here's a little teaser night photograph of Batu Berlayar AMTB Battery and this is the No. 2 Director Tower just outside the Battery. More nocturnes coming soon in December 2015.

Batu Berlayar AMTB Battery - An Urban Exploration

Number 2 Director Tower

Tonight I'm thrilled to share with you on my first urban exploration since 2013. I've always wanted to explore this place but do not know how. So I want to thank my friend (you know who you are if you're reading this) for showing me the way.

Weather was pretty good on that day and we made our way there in the evening while it was still bright for visibility. We checked out each empty dusty cobwebbed store room in which broken wooden shelves and racks were found. We climbed up onto two 4-storey director towers for some scenic views which turned out not very pretty because most of its surrounding perimeter were covered with thick foliage and canopies. The image above clearly shows what I mean.

Number 1 Director Tower

One common sight at an abandoned place is the graffito and no exception for this historical fort. They can be seen on the walls in the Number 1 Emplacement and some can be found in the director towers' interiors. My apology for not able to show you any image here.

Despite of its environmental condition, no words can describe how much I enjoyed exploring this place and I was overwhelmed so much so that I only took these 2 photographs during the entire evening. I was trying to find vantage spots for some good nocturnal photography.

As the sun set and darkness set in, we quickly settled down and set up our tripods and cameras, and off we went to create some interesting and fun night photographs.

Coming at this point, I will leave you to your imaginations. So until then in the next blog, I will post those night photographs I made. If you like my work and want to keep updated, do subscribe to my blogs. For more historical details of this Fort Berlayar, click here.

I thank you for your time to read and view my work here.
Good night and lights off!