Photography

Photography Competitions/Contests

Entering into the month of July 2025, there are a few ongoing photography competitions/contests,  I am planning to join and see whether they might bring me!

NUSPS Montage 2025

The last day for submission is 6th July 2025 with the theme, “Singapore in Focus 2025: Past, Present, and Future”. If you are keen to enter this photography competition, do visit NUSPS and check it out.

HDB x PSS Photo Competition 

Housing Development Board (HDB) and Photographic Society of Singapore (PSS) has a photo competition with the theme “Heartland Stories: I Love My Home & Community”. If you are into heartland Singapore living and stories, do visit PSS website and check it out.

Tamron Singapore 

Tamron Singapore is also running a photography contest with the theme, “City Night Lights”, it runs from 15th June to 31st July 2025. If you are keen to enter this photography contest, do check it out.

Canon PhotoMarathon 2025

I have registered for Canon PhotoMarathon 2025, taking place on Saturday 19th July 2025, a photography competition that I have been participating for a number of years. More than just a photography competition to test yourself and the chance to win attractive prizes, this is also a time for photography friends to gather and catch up!

If you are keen to know more about Canon PhotoMarathon 2025, visit their website and check it out! I have also shared my stories on participating in Canon PhotoMarathon over the years here on my TGH Photography and Travel website!

Visual Storytelling / Content Creation 

SG60 Theme + NDP 2025 Rehearsals 

Counting down to 9th August 2025, Singapore’s 60th birthday (SG60) National Day Parade (NDP) 2025 celebrations, there would be regular rehearsals on Saturdays leading up to NDP 2025, for us to head down to Marina Bay Area, for RSAF air display, and photographing fireworks. 

Leveraging on the various photography competitions/contests taking place in 2025, together with NDP 2025 rehearsals and from my photography archives, I am building up towards my SG60 personal photography project. 

Beyond digital 

As I working on my personal SG60 photography/visual storytelling project, a photography zine is on the cards, I am also exploring other creative outputs beyond digital, such as postcards, photo prints of different sizes etc.

Learning from creative artists from other creative genres

With all the ongoing festivities and celebrations, from SG60 to other arts, culture and heritage events, I am also learning from creative artists from other creative genres. All these do help to open up my vision and approaches, on my creativity and how I can possibly apply them in my visual storytelling in both personal and professional capacity. 

Re-exploring NFTs and Digital Arts 

MakersPlace closed

With MakersPlace closing their Marketplace, I have to transfer my NFTs that I previously minted with them to my MetaMask personal wallet. Meanwhile I am looking at Marketplaces to list my NFTs for sale.

Although I entered this space a few years back, I didn’t invest a lot of time here due to resources management and not knowing too sure where digital arts/NFTs would lead me to. With this inevitable transfer of my NFTs, I am taking this opportunity to re-explore NFTs and Digital Arts space again. 

Packed July 2025 schedule

Leading up to Singapore SG60 celebrations on 9th August 2025, July 2025 is going to be packed and lined up with many different events and activities. While Q2 has been a difficult and slow period, the leisure and personal segments of my visual storytelling, photography and content creation helps me to navigate some of the stressful and pressurising times.

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Photography Competitions 

(A) Shores to Strength, Celebrating 60 Years of Coastal Protection & Resilience – National Photography Competition by Singapore Water Association.

URL: https://www.swa.org.sg/shores-to-strength-celebrating-60-years-national-photography-competition/ 

(B) Mad About Singapore 2025 – “Maritime Singapore” by InstaSG 

URL: https://www.instagram.com/p/DI6VyM2TVWA/ 

Two photography competitions for me to work on, they would help me plan my personal photography shoots, adding more works for curation of my SG60 personal project. Both competitions have nice prizes to be won too, that would be a real bonus for me!

Personal Visual Storytelling / Photography / Content Creation

(C) SG60 Celebrations – Singapore’s 60th birthday 

Year 2025 is Singapore’s 60th (SG60) birthday. How would I be planning to commemorate my own personal SG60 celebrations, how would I interpret SG60 celebrations through my visual stories and photographs? What kind of different approaches and photographs of Singapore can I tell the Singapore 60th birthday story? 

Currently, I am considering photography zine format for my SG60 personal visual storytelling project (less formal and smaller in size versus a full-fledged photo book). Things/plans might change along the way, as I continue to photograph, compile and curate my visual stories of Singapore over the decades. 

(D) World Migratory Bird Day 2025 

World Migratory Bird Day 2025 falls on 10th May 2025 and 11th November 2025. The 2025 theme is Creating Bird-Friendly Cities & Communities. I would be sharing more on my bird photography adventures and updates around October 2024 to March 2025.

URL: https://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/ 

(E) Coming soon in June 2025

I would be sharing some photography / visual storytelling / content creation updates in the next month June 2025. There would be an announcement/update on my personal photography, do keep a lookout! 

More updates to come for my photography / visual storytelling / content creation in Year 2025!

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World Photography Day 2024 – An Entire Day

On World Photography Day 2024, let me tell and share a short visual story of my personal interactive and immersive art and craft journeys/adventures with Modulation by House of VSE. The journeys and its timeline fitting of “An Entire Day”. The truth is, this Modulation art journeys and adventures were days and months of “An Entire Day”.

A Sneak Preview of Modulation

I embarked on another interactive and immersive art adventure in Singapore, it’s the Modulation art journey by House of VSE / Very Small Exhibition, it started with a sneak preview of the artworks work in progress by artist Wei.

Modulation: Food meets Art Participatory Experience 

How does food meets art participatory experience felt like? A unique experience with great ambience, culture, heritage and love for Peranakan cuisine coming all together, followed by a hands on ceramic artwork experience. 

Modulation: Nature meets Art Participatory Experience

How does nature meets art participatory experience felt like? A day trip out to Lazarus Island, it was relaxing and therapeutic, doing artwork in nature under a nice cosy hut.

Modulation: Amalgamation Exhibition

From a sneak preview, going for participatory art experiences, helping out to setup the exhibition event space and attending a fun opening party catching up with fellow like-minded friends supporting local arts and creatives. 

Congratulations to House of VSE and Very Small Exhibition on another amazing, interactive and immersive participatory art experience journey, I was glad to be onboard this journey, and another of your amazing and unique interactive art adventures!

Happy World Photography Day 2024!

Whether you are sharing your best photographs or telling a visual storytelling journey like myself, let your passionate and love for photography bring out the best in you! 

Wishing all fellow photographers and visual storytellers a Happy World Photography Day 2024!

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I am playing my small part for WWD 2024 through my visual storytelling with Canon EOS R series camera, for this year’s series, they were shot with my Canon EOS R6 Mark II of my wildlife and nature/outdoors photography in Singapore, part of my TGH Explorer Series Production, largely inspired and influenced by National Geographic magazine publications when I started reading them in the late 80s to early 90s. 

How does digital innovation and technology plays a role in my WWD 2024? While I am not in the fields of wildlife research and conservation, I contributed via my photographs and documentations of various wildlife spotted and documented at different locations in Singapore in the nature areas as well as urban environments, bird watching/counting. Although I am probably more focused on bird photography and green nature spaces, I am going to document/photograph more of different types of wildlife beyond birds.

Here are some of my wildlife photography in Singapore that I captured with my Canon EOS R6 Mark II camera from mid 2023 till date. 

Here are my ongoing documentation and collection of my visual storytelling on wildlife photography and nature reserves/parks in Singapore, uploaded into my Flickr collections over the years with my different Canon cameras that I owned/tested.

Even though you might not be in the fields of wildlife and/or nature research/conservation, we can still play our small part in wildlife and nature conservation, with the help of cameras and digital innovation. I am continuing to play my small part on nature and wildlife photography/documentation in Singapore, and hopefully nearby regions as I am exploring and writing on the areas of sustainability, adding on to my nature and wildlife conservation. 

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TGH Photography x Canon EOS R6 Mark II Explorer Series Production

The Canon EOS R6 Mark II has recently been added to my photography setup, with my Canon EOS 1D X Mark II making way for my new camera. Although I missed my Canon EOS 1D X Mark II, the iconic 1D series that I started to build my photography and visual storytelling. 

The Canon EOS R6 Mark II is amazing with its fast and accurate AF, high FPS, high ISO level control and quality, excellent sensor and processing engine. While I do miss the battery grip of the 1D series, the overall excellence and quality of the Canon EOS R6 Mark II is not making me miss my 1D series as much as I would thought I would be. 

Exploring and Visiting Arts

Exploring and visiting arts around Singapore with the Canon EOS R6 Mark II, it had been a great form of artistic enjoyment and therapy, away from my writing, social media and photography work. Igniting my spark on a new wave at i Light Singapore 2023, SYSNMH Wan Qing Dragon Boat Festival Open House 2023, following House of VSE Your Neighbour Artist Exhibition around Singapore (and still ongoing), heritage and cultural events Qixi Festival and NHB Racial Harmony Day 2023. 

Exploring my own backyard

The months of June to July 2023 are usually scheduled with NDP 2023 rehearsals taking place on the weekends, allowing us to photograph the NDP 2023 rehearsals action and fireworks taking place around the Marina Bay area. The NDP 2023 rehearsals were an excellent opportunity to put the Canon EOS R6 Mark II to the test.

I was also exploring the new HDB blocks in my neighbourhood, discovering new sky parks and views. Besides that, I was also chasing sunsets and super moon with a super telephoto zoom lens Sigma 150-600mm.  

Of course, getting into outdoors and nature, it had always been a form of therapy and relaxation for me. Sometimes, adding wildlife photography into my outdoors outing and exploration together as well. 

Always on the lookout for value for money 2nd hand camera accessories  

I am always on the lookout for value for money 2nd hand camera accessories and peripherals. Some of them were slowly added over time to build up my setup, while some were replacements for my photography accessories.  

I discovered this brand Wotancraft not too long ago, I admired its quality, as well as how much consideration they placed on the designs and concepts around photographers and travellers. I got myself a Wotancraft Trooper (Medium) as my own birthday gift earlier in Q1 2023.

I had invested in a number of Think Tank products, although I gave away my Shape Shifter version 1, I found a Naked Think Tank Shape Shifter 17 v2.0 at a good price and I quickly grabbed this opportunity. Since I am expanding my Think Tank setup, I have also added more different types of Think Tank pouches along the way. 

Leofoto – A brand that I have also discovered and looking into. They have a great range of quality products for photographers. The first product that I got was the Leofoto MC-50 clamp. Moving forward, I am planning to add a few more products from Leofoto! 

Upcoming visual stories

Here are some of my upcoming visual stories. Do keep a lookout for them, coming soon! 

• Shout Gallery SG x Ceramication Slip-casting workshop: Keen to make your own tea cups, tea pot set? Don’t miss this!
• Canon camera reviews: Working on a few Canon camera review articles, keep a lookout!
• Roastelier by Nescafe – For cafe owners and also those who love coffee, 
• Living Pictures @ National Gallery – Photographers would find this diverse and eye-opener photography exhibition filled with history and iconic visual stories. 

Also coming soon, a special theme/content article on the impacts of AI on photography and creative industries, part of my ongoing TGH Technology Research/Learning Series on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

“Forget it and move on”

I took a break from social media for a few days, as I was feeling disappointed in something that only very few people will know what happened. 

“Forget it and move on”, an advice that was shared with me. 

Therefore, I will continue with my ongoing work, craft and visual storytelling, seeking progression and improvements in my journey. 

* A TGH Photography x Canon EOS R6 Mark II Explorer Series Production *

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