Posts in ‘2007’

The previous few nights in London saw mist.
The entire day yesterday saw heavy fog. I had my stuff packed way ahead of time, for once, and that allowed for a bit of shooting in Hyde Park before I had to leave for the airport.

Photos :: Fog in Hyde Park
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While it may be said that the camera doesn’t lie, the framing and interpretation of reality lies very much with the photographer and the viewer.
This is right outside our flat. My street’s not actually this quiet. Not a street, in fact, but a road, and a major road at that. It takes a bit [...]

I’ll be returning to Singapore this weekend, but not before we have a quiet little reunion of QuGee and the extended circle and enjoy an evening meal with our friends.
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A refreshing breath of chilly winter air away from the city centre was just what I needed to wrap up this [...]

Recently I’ve been taking photos of Christmas lights-ups, festivities, fairs, people, shop displays. But it is not the festive spirit that is motivating me. Instead I am driven by a modern sense of humbuggery – a railing against the commercialisation of Christmas. The very thing that repels me is what attracts me to, all the [...]

Was at Liverpool Street’s Old Spitalfields and Brick Lane markets over the weekend. Nice weather, for once, and great company.
Its markets sell anything and everything you can think of, mostly second-hand, but some are quality wares. Fruits and vegs are sold fresh and cheap, and the entire neighbourhood is a diverse, densely multicultural area, [...]

Bankside Frost Fair

St Paul’s from the south bank

Inside Tate Modern

Finding that perfect educational Christmas gift

The ghosts of Christmas?
More photos: Bankside Frost Fair and Tate Modern

Flowershop in the park

London Eye Junior

Curious crowds

Ice rink at Natural History Museum
More photos: X’mas at NHM and Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park

Since I don’t have my handwritten diary with me right now (the high school volumes are in Singapore), I’ll just post here from time to time some random selections from my ‘Updates’ series – not the most original of titles, but they served well as regular emails/newsletters to friends during my high school days in [...]