A hungry polar bear behind bars….

A cat family… waiting to pounce on the parade…

This is begins a series of home made animal costumes, mostly done by children (4-6 year olds) with some help from their parents.

Here is a butterfly.

Friendly seahorses on the move….

some came in professionally made costumes that were so very colourful…

Last week, I went took time off to join Dr Jane Goodall in the Wildlife Stampede… or rather, I brought my kids there to participate.

Dr Goodall is the living icon for wildlife conservation and in SG, it was no small thing with 700 people in the Stampede… a parade of costumes from the Jacob Ballas Gardens, Singapore Botanical Gardens to the Palm Valley arena some 1.9km away.

Sunrise in V
Originally uploaded by DanielKHC

Explore Front Page on September 30th.

Yishun Yacht Club, Singapore.

”Thanks again to my flickr friend Rajesh (rags1969) for driving me to such a great place! We were on the road from 6:00am, and made some great shots. You may have a look at the whole HDR set or Singapore Set.”

Just Listen…
Originally uploaded by DanielKHC

Explore Front Page (#2) on July 3rd.

Lower Peirce Reservoir, Singapore.

”My good friend _uncommon (Marcus) has asked about the workflow for this HDR. Nothing special here, except that on top of the usual five exposures (-2EV,-1EV,0EV,+1EV,+2EV), I switched the camera to manual mode to get 2 extra exposures because the trees on the left were still too dark for the +2EV exposure.

Then for the tone mapping in Photomatix, I used very conservative settings (Strength: 90, Color Saturation: 60, Light Smoothing: 1, Luminosity: 2, Micro contrast: 2, Micro-smoothing: 4)

After HDR generation, noise cleaning with ‘Noise Ninja’. Then applied a ‘Curve’ with a Layer Mask to brighten only the trees on the left. That’s it basically!”