Punggol Beach, from Dusk to Dawn or the other way around :P

As again, I made another attempt to take sunrise today. I managed to wake up slightly earlier than normal and packed my gears and left my house for Punggol Beach. I took bus 43 to go to Punggol Interchange to change to bus 82 to go to the Beach. With each passing minute, the day grew brighter and brighter and my hope for taking a sunrise grew dimmer and dimmer.

As I reach the place, I took out my gears and head right up to the beach area and tried taking the sunrise. By that time, the sun had risen over the horizon for quite a while, but the warm orangy gold cast still fills the air. I took one shot with a passing cloud and that is the only shot that I think is good. I keep thinking to myself, "Should have woke up earlier and waited for sun to rise instead of coming here with the sun already hanging up in the sky." Anyway, this is the shot taken.

Punggol Beach at Dawn



I continue to hang around the beach around for an hour or so and took a few more shots. After reviewing them, I only find this piece which is more interesting. This is an abandoned Police Post located at Punggol Beach, it was featured by another phtographer Darren Soh in his work "While you were sleeping".



At around 8:00am, I left Punggol Beach and proceed to Raffles Place and I continued to spend the entire morning at the city to take photos and explore around to locate the entry stairways up to the Sheares Bridge. I went up the bridge and explore the view there. It is really breath-taking in a sense as you can see all the tall commerical buildings and also the Esplanade from the bridge but the bad thing is that there is some construction that is going on in the foreground which kind of spoilt the pictures. :( I will try to create a new posting to upload some pictures taken there.

I kept shooting and shooting, much to my surprise, I used up 2 of my EN-EL3e batteries really fast and was unable to continue shooting throughout the day so I got no choice but to go back home to charge up my batteries. Maybe it is time to invest in a few more batteries. Hmmm...

After reaching home, I immediately charge up my batteries and downloaded the pictures I took to my harddisk. I stayed at home until around 6pm then I went to Punggol Beach again to take another evening shoot. This time, I gotten quite a few good shots, just to share out one of them

Punggol Beach at Dusk



After my evening shoot at Punggol Beach, I proceed to Fort Canning to take some star trails which I think it is a disaster. I will explain why in my next posting.