I <3 Architecture | SINGAPORE

Hey guys, how are you all doing!? I can’t believe I’m writing my very first 2015 post!

Here it’s actually early in the morning, so… happy breakfast!

I know that it was in November 2014 that I was in Singapore, which is quite a long time back since it’s… last year! But there is something incredible about Singapore that I fell in love with and that I had meant to share here for everyone’s visual pleasure for a while now, but I guess I had been too lazy until now.

All right, so the purpose of this blog post is simply me sharing Singapore in its architectural beauty. Colonization and new technologies both often do produce many artistic wonders… and here is a photo gallery compilation of some of which I encountered during my vacation in Singapore.

Enjoy!

Weekly Photo Challenge | Contrasts

Contrast: Isn’t it wonderful that such a little black box known as the camera can absorb so many patterns of light know as photos? 😛

Anyway… I had actually planned to continue my Psychology series today but… I’m actually… sick. 😦 so I can’t really think straight.

But I was lucky I was able to make a vlog this week before my throat went down and you can check it out at my ‘Vlogging Channel’ tab!

Have a great Sunday!

An Evil Nymph.

My Model Photography Project!

I apologize for this Friday’s missing Psychology post, but I’ve been busy carrying out one of my last modelling photoshoots (it was supposed to have been my last but in the end my friends and I concluded that we had to do more, and moreover I still have about a month and a half before going to university) and I’ve finally published the photos online! I mean, I did an album on Facebook, haha, like a kind of conclusion of the project, although it might not be the end yet 😉

(here’s an overall appeal of what the project was all about, and also my facebook cover hehe)

We actually did five themes for the project:

1. Nature

2. James Bond in Vacation (yeah I know lol xD)

3. Urban

4. Vintage

5. Seashore (it was supposed to be Beach but some weather and sickness problems arose so… :P)

And it was so FUN!!! 🙂 An amazing experience.

If you want to see the album and thus all the themes & photos… CLICK HERE!!!

Enjoy 😉

I’ll catch up on my Psychology series soon 😛

Oh and if you want me to give you some of my tips on model photography or anything related, just let me know 🙂

Stay tuned!

An Evil Nymph.

Weekly Photo Challenge | Twist

This is not what you think it is.

It’s not an ordinary pile of rocks.

IT’S A FOUNTAIN!!!

Oh yes and I was so stunned when I realised it that I fell in love with it. My friends and I came upon it at Domaine les Pailles, Mauritius, if you want to know 😉

For me, this moment of discovery and realisation was a real plot twist. 🙂

An Evil Nymph.

Weekly Photo Challenge | Work Of Art

I’m taking this week’s challenge, Work of Art, as an opportunity to finally show you my first original painting on canvas, which I think I’m calling Homothea’s End. It was painted with acrylics 🙂

By the way if you have missed my last post, Narcissism & Manipulation, go and read it! It’s the first of a series in which I’m going to post every week on psychological profiles, based on my personal observations of the world. 😀

Stay tuned.

An Evil Nymph.

Weekly Photo Challenge | On The Move

So yeah, I guess I’m back to it 🙂 Let’s not waste any more time and be on the move.

This was taken at my little brother’s (he’s the third red one from the right) annual Sports Day in his primary school, which was in fact my former school. 😀

It felt good to be back there.

An Evil Nymph.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge | Threshold

A new language I’m learning, Italian, a new beginning.

A new country to fly to in a few months, Malaysia, a new beginning.

A new subject to learn, psychology, a new institution, Monash university, a new beginning for me, soon.

This is the threshold I’m standing at, at the moment 🙂

PS: This photo has originally been on my Instagram: dkwaye

An Evil Nymph.

Weekly Photo Challenge | Perspective

For this week’s challenge, which is ‘perspective‘, I was inspired by you, yes you, people who read my blog, and especially those who read about my post on Candid Street Photography, and that’s because you’ve told me how you liked that first photo with the colouful umbrellas…

And here are photos of the same place, with the same umbrellas, but taken in different perspectives.

 

Looking up.

And looking down to them.

So what do you think of this week’s theme, perspective? Feel free to show me your own interpretation!

An Evil Nymph.

My First Time! | Candid Street Photography

Yesterday I decided to give candid street photography a go. I was going to be in the capital city anyway, so I thought, why not? My adventurous mind was getting all thrilled at the thought that I was indeed going to be alone, since the friend I’d asked to come with me wasn’t free, but reason warned me not to be too crazy so I opted for a safe area – a tourist one!

Here’s the main street of Le Caudan Waterfront, where I chose to do candid street photography for the first time, all by myself:

Yes I know. Colourful umbrellas ♥

So I put on my hat, wore Candy (my camera) around my neck and pretended to be a tourist! I even spoke English (we usually speak French), stared around as if I’ve never been there (although I’ve been a thousand times since I was born), smiled… and followed the crowd, feigning to take shots of the place when in fact I was shooting… the people themselves.

Weekly Photo Challenge | Abandoned

This was actually a bean plant which I had planted and taken care of a few years ago but then mosquito-transmitted diseases became common in my country and for safety reasons I was recommended to stop dealing with plants.

I thus abandoned my bean plant and here it is, definitely useful in my photographic amateur journey! 😉 Which I’m recording on Flickr if you want to check it out!

Have a great week!

An Evil Nymph.

WPC: Threes | A Hidden Murder Mystery

This week’s photo challenge is the theme of ‘Threes‘ in which we have to tell a story using three photos. Here’s what the Daily Post suggested:

To create a three-picture story, gather:

1. An establishing shot: a broad photo of your subject.
2. A relationship: two elements interacting with one another.
3. A detail: a close-up of one part of your subject.

Thus, today I’m going to show you a story about… a hidden murder mystery!

It all happened in my friend’s cosy kitchen, where we were preparing some delicious Mauritian Napolitaine biscuits…

It’s Never Too Late… For A Selfie!

It’s never too late for a new blog post either!

For those of you who love to participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge as much as I do you may notice how the title relates to the fact that I haven’t been blogging for two weeks but I really want to remedy to that by still giving a shot at one of the challenges I missed which was ‘Selfie’.

1st take:

You can actually find this photo on my Instagram. Follow me @dkwaye !

How To: Light Painting Photography!!!

For Chinese New Year, I did an interesting experiment with my Nikon Coolpix p520, that of the famous light painting! Like this:

First, I’d like to share the video tutorial that led me to discover this amazing art:

Watch it if you want to know how to do it, because here I’m mainly going to show how it’s not necessary to have all these high tech equipments to achieve the same results.

Basically, here’s what you need to do light painting:

– Torches (any colour! or many colours! I actually used my phone’s flashlight, which was downloaded on Play Store :P)
– Any camera that can be manually set to low exposure (low shutter speed)
– Something stable to put your camera on, like a tripod.
– Preferably a remote control, like in the video above, so as to again minimize shakiness. Because pressing the shutter button directly can make the camera shaky, I guess.
– And most importantly: friends!!! Yeps, and have fun! I had my sister and cousins with me 🙂

Weekly Photo Challenge | Window

 

 

I wanted to emphasise on the window patterns so that’s why I underexposed myself 😉