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!