Month: July 2010

Gardens By The Bay – Off-Site Part 2

Construction on the Cool Dry Conservatory is progressing extremely fast and it’s hard to keep up with only monthly visits.  As more arches are erected the gridshell, which is a self supporting structure, is constructed within the bounds of the arches.  The gridshell will support the conservatory glazing and forms part of the facade system.  Supporting the arches and gridshell during the construction process is the ‘crash deck’.   The crash deck is the red structure you can see in the images.

Construction on the Cool Moist Conservatory has started and also progressing quickly.  The main core can be seen rising out of the ground and the concrete shoes for the arches are all being cast. Below are images from June and July 2010.

June 2010

July 2010

Welcome to the Jungle

As the rain set in we all knew we were in for a hard slog around the 7km circuit of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve for the Singapore National MTB Champs.  These images are of the Men’s Open Category.  I had raced earlier in the Masters Category and was keen to get some photo’s of the fast boys, including 5 members of our cycling team Cannasia-Cannondale.  We took all 3 podium positions aswell as 5th place thanks to the efforts of Tim Wilkins, Shahrom Abdullah, Fraser Morrison and Tim Clarsen, respectively. Fourth place was taken by the 2010 Singaporean National Champion and unfortunately our fifth member, Robert Hensby, decided to dismount his bike over the front handle bars in the first 2km and had to retire from the race. Congratulations should also go to Richard Sinclair from the Cannasia-Cannondale team who took first place in the Masters Category. Shooting proved challenging with low light conditions, heavy rain and thousands of mosquitos that decided to gather on me the moment I stood still.

Boomrock

Located on 8km of stunning coastline North West of Wellington is Boomrock.  We headed out there on a fairly non descript, dull Wellington day to help test some equipment for the Fleetsafe NZ programme.  Fleetsafe NZ has been developed to create vehicle awareness and driver training. In conjunction with Mercedes-Benz and assistance from the late Peter Brock, Boomrock has a purpose built car testing circuit where one can experience hot laps with professional drivers to hands on driver training.  Because we were there to help test some in car equipment no hot laps were experienced but we were lucky enough to be driving around in a brand new Mercedes-Benz C class car for a couple of hours.  You can read all about Boomrock here at www.boomrock.co.nz

I had also just purchased a new Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS II USM lens and these were some of the first test shots with this lens.