Inviting All Watercolour Art Lovers...

Singapore Watercolour Society will be holding its 38th Annual Exhibition 2007 from 31st August to 4th September 2007 at Ngee Ann Cultural Centre, Teochew Building.

This year's event will be bigger than ever before as members of Penang Water Colour Society (PWCS) will jointly participate in the exhibition in conjunction with the 2nd Singapore-Penang Watercolour Exhibition. Hence, the exhibition is titled Bridging Ties With Watercolours, which significantly represents the co-operation and close friendship not only amongst artists from both islands but between the young and senior artists in both societies.

Over 60 artists from both societies are participating and 120 pieces of high quality watercolour artworks on display and most of them are for sale. Don't miss this opportunity to see for yourselves the magic of watercolour works done by established watercolourists.

The opening of the exhibition will be held at 6:30pm on Friday 31 August 2007.

If you wish to attend the opening, kindly drop me a mail at marvin@marvinchew.com so that I can send you an invitation card.

See you on the 31st August!

National Day Fireworks

It was Singapore's 42nd National Day yesterday. Usually, I'd just stay at home and watch the parade 'live' on TV. Sometimes, I took the opportunity to take a break and went back to Kuching like last year. But this year, a couple of my colleagues have just started photography and asked me to go with them to take photos of the fireworks. Now, I don't even have a decent digital slr camera and my knowledge of photography is also limited to basics like what are F-stop, shutter speed and simple composition rules which I apply from my painting.

So, I went along with my humble Panasonic Lumix FZ20... we had dinner at Lau Pa Sat and by the time we reached the big field behind One Raffles Quay at 6:00pm, the place was already packed with families in picnic mats, photographers with bulky gears and tripods, and happy people waiting to watch the fireworks.

We couldn't get a good view at all as there were too many people in front of us, so we decided to shoot our photos a few metres behind, resulting in many heads on the foreground spoiling our photo composition. Nevertheless, it was fun and I enjoyed the nightout with my good friends and colleagues.

The crowd

Giant jelly-fish??

Here are two of my beginner's effort in shooting fireworks... one lesson learnt, i should have upped the shutter speed to at least 5 seconds or more to catch the tail-lights of the fireworks.

Although my effort pales in comparison with the pros with big-shot dslr camera, I hope you enjoy the pics... Happy Birthday, Singapore!