Into the Coolhouse

Here’s what the coolhouse looks like, and here are some of its inhabitants…

The flower show continues…

In continuation to yesterday’s post, here are some more orchids and all things botanical from the Singapore Botanical Garden and the Orchid Park.

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Walking around the Singapore Botanical Garden

The botanical gardens is a really nice place to stroll around and as a photographer, you’re not alone. Everyone from a pro taking pictures of a bride to seemingly random people pulling out a big canon with a L series lens (the most common one I saw was the 24-70 2.8 L). If you are into flower and plants, this is a ‘not-to-be-missed’ place to visit. For lovers of orchids, there’s an Orchid park (which you have to pay for entry, the botanical gardens entry is free) is much more scenic to look at and has a higher ‘concentration’ of flowers.

Mist in the Cooler room

The ‘coolest’ place in the Singapore Botanical Gardens, the combination of air conditioning, water spray and a greenhouse makes this room an interesting place to drop by. There greenery all around with the kind of morning dew / rainforest wet look on the foliage. Be careful if you have electronics though because of the fine spray that might be present. (observe the ‘mist’ effect on the far side)

The look

From the same Ajmal event as yesterday, today we have Fleur Xavier. This set of continuous photos reminded me of the movie Zoolander, namely, ‘The Look’. In the movie, everyone from the fashion industry thinks that Zoolander develops different looks, his ultimate being Magnum, his most powerful look till date. His way of “deploying” the look is to:

1. Face away from the audience
2. Swing around a quick 90 degs
3. when he has swung around, his face has “the look”

Fleur Xavier does it with a flick of the head…

Stuck in the wrong place?

This is an old one, from the Ajmal perfume launch about a year back. It was a fashion show held on a Kingfisher flight with models walking up and down the aisle as the ramp. After taking our seats, some photographers realised that they were way in front with the models actually stopping to pose with the Ajmal bottles halfway down the aisle. As you can see, there were a ‘wall of cameras’ to greet the models there with this one guy feeling like he missed the action.