5634. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Sports Centre under construction. Use AV and tripod.

 PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Sports Centre under construction. Use AV and tripod.

SINGAPORE - 2 JAN 2024: 3pm. Visited One Punggol Regional Library and saw a good angle to take a photo of the Punggol Regional Sports Centre, under construction. The pink Active SG banner was the focus.

This massive building will have a 5,000-seater football stadium, a swimming complex, an indoor sports hall and a team sports hall. Hence I give it 5 stars for being integrated with sports activities benefitting the people.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Use tripod, AV. Canon R5, 26mm, 1/200sec, f/11,ISO 100.

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#punggolregionalsportscentre
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5633. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: INDOOR, PIANO. Use Manual focus.

 PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: INDOOR, PIANO. Use Manual focus.

 

A Grand Piano and a red Ferrari in a Hainan Hotel, China
This hotel has a very spacious lobby.
31 Oct 2023. Evening

Use Manual focus to get a good image. Canon R5, /13sec, f/4.0, ISO 800.
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Bright sunny morning on Friday 2 Feb 2024.

#hotelhainan
#steinwayandsons
#grandpiano
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#singkongyuen
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Had a Hainan tour with a group of mainly Seniors in Oct 2023 for $1200 on JetStar and organised by Mr T T Wong with Nam Ho. This hotel lobby has a red Ferrari and a Baby Grand Piano and artwork - definitely not  a budget hotel.  There is the beach but no time to explore as we reached late in the evening and left early in the morning!

 

5632. ADVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Take care of your health.

 ADVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow), veterinarian 

8 JAN 2024. 

A donated piano in the public area of the Food Court of Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Suddenly, a slim white-haired man sat on the stool and played for the public. There was no crowd. He played good music but my iPhone 10 could not record well. He did forget some parts at one stage and apologised. 

 

I was visiting a 73-year-old friend who was warded and treated for gangrenous toes at this Hospital. He was thin and bald after suffering from two treatments and operations to amputate his 2 gangrenous toes. He had not been injecting insulin daily as instructed. 

 

Here are two Seniors with sound minds and memory. No dementia. What a world of difference in their lives. I am also an elderly man at 73 years of age and am in good health so far. 

 

The morale of my story is that one has to take care of one's health especially during one's senior years. How to do it is to research and read widely on healthcare for the Seniors. Good health monitoring starts from the young adulthood but Seniors can do much prevention of health deterioration like diabetes and hypertension with good medical advices and compliance to medication and a healthy diet. 

 

Enjoy the piano music. Take care of your health. 

UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2024/02/5632-advices-for-young-people-take-care.html

5631. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Signboard of Singapore Botanic Gardens. Clear leaves on the road

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Signboard of Singapore Botanic Gardens. Clear leaves on the road using photoshop. Best to have a clean photo for sale, without litter on the road.

 

12 Feb 2024.

SINGAPORE - 12 SEP 2023: 11am. Founded in 1859, the Singapore Botanic Gardens is one of three gardens and the only tropical garden to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

I had photoshopped away the leaves on the road side to make a clean road entrance to the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Or remove the fallen leaves on the road before photography. This makes a clean photo.

Canon R5, AV, tripod, 24mm, 1/125sec, f/11, ISO 100

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#singaporebotanicgardens
#stignboard
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 12 Feb 2024:

I visited the well maintained Singapore Botanic Gardens over the years at different times.

I notice that it has very few butterflies or dragonflies. There may be various reasons including pesticide fogging and a shortfall of flowers and plants for various species of caterpillars. There are no spreading beds of flowers as in some gardens overseas.

For these reasons, I rate it as 3 stars for wildlife photography.

5630. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS; Terminal 1, Changi Airport. Card payment kiosks in 2024.

SOME INFORMATION ABOUT TERMINAL 1, CHANGI AIRPORT.

At an airport known for its passenger facilities, Terminal 1 does not disappoint. Passengers waiting to board their flights are treated to duty-free shopping and an array of free attractions, such as the Kinetic Rain Sculpture. The mesmerizing art installation features 1,216 bronze droplets that move to resemble flight movements.

The terminal is also home to the Tropical Rainforest Vivarium, where you can find over 50 species of flora and nearly ten species of fauna, and the Water Lily Garden, featuring the largest aquatic plant in the world.

In 2024, the Terminal 1 Transit Lounge SG Hawker Food Court requires all patrons to use credit cards. No cash is allowed! A video is shown. 

UPDATE AT:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2024/02/photography-tips-terminal-1-changi.html

5629. Community cat feeding and mental health

12 Feb 2024.
Community cats are very rarely seen nowadays. Volunteers rescue, sterilise, rehome and feed community cats near their workplace or home. 

1. Madam Piry Lim feeds about 60 stray cats in Mei Ling Street. Cost more than $2000 monthly.
Facebook.

2. Critics
2.1 Cats may defecate or urinate in public areas
2.2 Noise nuisance. Wailing.
2.3 Littering by cat feeders.

A ban on cats in HD flats since 1960s.

Abuse of community cats. SPCA investigated 261 cases of cat abuse, cruelty and welfare issues.

BENEFITS OF CARING FOR COMMUNITY CATS

1. Looking after feline community cats may be a source of comfort and purpose for retires. Improve mental health.

2. animal companions reduce stress, fight loneliness and lower anxiety.

3. animal-assisted therapy.

4. community cats foster a sense of togetherness - caring for them through responsile feeding, neutering,
obtaining medical care and funding and rehoming.

4.1 Stray Affairs - animal lovers group work with migrant workers to feed and foster stray cats and dogs in industrial estates.  Shared mission bonds.

4.2. NTU Cat Management Network.  Own Telegram channel "Meows of NTU". 340 volunteer feeders in 5 clusters across NTU. 6200 cat enthusiasts share photos.

5628. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Samsung smartphone image of the Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in 11 Feb 2024.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Steady hand with Samsung smartphone for night photography.

Good morning. This example by Gerald shows that Samsung phones can create excellent images at night, better than expensive cameras. You don't need to make any settings. Just point and shoot, but you must have a steady hand.

Samsung smartphone image of the Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in Feb 2024.

 SINGAPORE - 11 FEB 2024: 8pm. The Amitabha Buddhist Centre is a 7-storey Tibetan-style Buddhist institution at Geylang Lorong 25A. It was completed in mid-2006.



UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2024/02/5628-photography-tips-stock-photos-need.html

 

 GOOGLE REVIEW 5 STARS

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Steady hand with Samsung smartphone for night photography.

Good morning. This example by Gerald shows that Samsung phones can create excellent images at night, better than expensive cameras. You don't need to make any settings. Just point and shoot, but you must have a steady hand.

Samsung smartphone image of the Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in Feb 2024.

 SINGAPORE - 11 FEB 2024: 8pm. The Amitabha Buddhist Centre is a 7-storey Tibetan-style Buddhist institution at Geylang Lorong 25A. It was completed in mid-2006.

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#singaporebuddhism
#amitabhabuddhistcentre
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#singkongyuen
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GOOGLE REVIEW  15 Feb 2024

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Steady hand with Samsung smartphone for night photography.

Good morning. This example by a Singaporean Gerald shows that Samsung phones can create excellent images at night, better than expensive cameras. You don't need to make any settings. Just point and shoot, but you must have a steady hand.

Samsung smartphone image of the Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore was taken by Gerald in 11 Feb 2024 at 8pm. The image is sharp and beautiful. It is much more challenging to take an impactful image at night, but Gerald who is not a professional photographer, had done a good job.

SINGAPORE - 11 FEB 2024: 8pm. The Amitabha Buddhist Centre is a 7-storey Tibetan-style Buddhist institution at Geylang Lorong 25A. It was completed in mid-2006.

FIVE STARS for a beautiful frontage in the Lunar Year of the Dragon!

UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2024/02/5628-photography-tips-stock-photos-need.html

 

 

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If you set your smartphone to lowest resolution to save disc storage space, you will be making a mistake as the resolution is too small for larger prints or stock photos if you wish to have them later in life.

Example below is a small resolution image. It is 960 x 1280 pixels at 240.

5627. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Walking couple. Use TV, ISO AUTO, multiple shots

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Walking couple. Use TV, ISO AUTO, multiple shots


Elderly couple walks briskly. Sentosa Boardwalk. 2 Feb 2024, 9am. 1/7 shotsCanon R5, TV 1/1250sec, f/4.5, ISO 3200. 50mm. (Float the ISO to AUTO).

Bright sunny morning on Friday 2 Feb 2024.

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#sentosaboardwalk
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5626. PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: iPhone 10. Mee siam in a small hawker stall.

 

11 Feb 2024. iPhone 10 photo taken in around Jan 2024.

A small hawker stall in Toa Payoh Lor 4, started by the mother. The son aged around 40, takes over now. "My mother asked me not to charge too high as the patrons are elderly," he said. He has increased a plate of mee siam to $3.00 recently.  The stall usually closes in the afternoon as he has had sold out.

Not a very sharp photo from iPhone 10. Reasons unknown.

5625. Bodhi trees in Bangladesh. A story told to me on 10 Feb 2024 (Chinese New Year).

Bodhi trees in Bangladesh. A story told to me on 10 Feb 2024 (Chinese New Year).

Bodhi trees are common in Bangladesh according to Wikepedia. I asked a Bangladeshi about Bodhi trees with large trunks in Bangladesh as there are not many seen by me in Singapore.

"There are many Bodhi trees in Bangladesh," he said. "In the 1990s, a hurricane devastated my school and neighbourhood. What remained was like desert in the middle East. It was very hot for students to study. So my teacher asked us to contribute money to buy a small bodhi plant. We planted it in the middle of the field."

"Why did your teacher ask for a Bodhi tree?" I asked.

"Its grows fast and its branches spread out like an umbrella providing shade," he said. "However we need to protect this plant from the goats and cows."

"Do you fence it with netting like a chicken hut?" I asked.

"No, no," he explained. "We used bamboo poles as fences. We have a lot of bamboo trees in the countryside."

"Now it is 2024," he extended his hands as if to encircle the Bodhi tree. "My two hands cannot even wrap round the tree trunk!"


I checked the Wikipedia. The Bodhi tree has a religious significance in 3 religions - Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. 

Bodhi (Ficus religiosa) is a large dry season-deciduous or semi-evergreen tree up to 30 metres (98 ft) tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 3 metres (9.8 ft). The leaves are cordate in shape with a distinctive extended drip tip; they are 10–17 centimetres (3.9–6.7 in) long and 8–12 centimetres (3.1–4.7 in) broad, with a 6–10 centimetres (2.4–3.9 in) petiole. The fruits are small figs 1–1.5 centimetres (0.39–0.59 in) in diameter, green ripening to purple.^{[citation needed]}