Singapore’s famous shopping street, Orchard Road, can be pretty bustling once human traffic streams in, especially around the late morning as retail starts bursting into life. You get to see all walks of life, from the ‘busy’ office worker who decides to have an early coffee break, to the young student on his/her way to class (or shop).

And then you get uncles like me, with a camera in his hands, perched and ready to strike. To photograph, that is, with my trusty and current favourite camera, the Fujifilm X100V.

With weddings now scaled down due to the Covid19 pandemic, many couples have been scrambling to find the next suitable venue outside of the usual hotel ballrooms and grand churches. Lo and behold, on the island of Sentosa, there is a beautiful restaurant known as the Panamericana. I have photographed there once, and I have loved the setting ever since.

I tried to have fun with this one, and casually said that the theme of my CBD (Central Business District) shoot will be ‘birds’. I really had no idea where I was going with this but I had fun nonetheless. Shoutout to my photography friends who came along and tried really hard to be bird spotters. A career after retiring awaits us.

So recently I’ve decided to pick up photographing on film after a long time of putting it away. No, it wasn’t for fun. I had wanted to do it but just couldn’t find time until Covid19 struck and made us reflect on things a little.