Singapore Botanic Gardens Part 1
The Singapore Botanic Gardens are something truly special. They are a beautiful 157-acre nature reserve filled with exotic and far-ranging plants from around the world. I briefly visited a small part of them yesterday, hence the following photos, but I shall be going back bright and early on Sunday morning to better view and photograph their features (and avoid the midday heat).
All of the best photos that I take in the gardens will be available soon on Flickr. Visit my photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwilde/ to view them and some of my other works.
The landscaping features of the gardens are top-class and very well maintained.
18mm, f/4.0, ISO 800, 1/4000 sec
This beautiful sculpture lies in the middle of Swan Lake. Sadly these were the only swans I actually saw, bar two.
43mm, f/5.0, ISO 800, 1/800 sec
I’m hoping that Tabbie will be able to help me identify some of these flowers. I didn’t notice the ant (below) until I was processing the photo…
109mm, f/5.0, ISO 800, 1/800 sec
The gardens are a great place to feature some of Singapore’s most interesting sculptures.
109mm, f/5.0, ISO 800, 1/640 sec
Can anybody help me to identify this interesting butterfly?
163mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/800 sec
It’s particularly wonderful how many of the gardens’ sculptures are imbedded within bushes.
146mm, f/5.0, ISO 800, 1/800 sec
The most interesting plants actually have plaques beneath them detailing their common name and species name, but I didn’t get round to noting them down.
250mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/320 sec
Hopefully on Sunday I’ll see more interesting wildlife than this guy, although these squirrels are quite different to the ones back home in England.
194mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/40 sec
Again, I think I’ll need Tabbie‘s help for this one.
96mm, f/5.0, ISO 800, 1/1600 sec
All photos will be available in larger size at http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwilde/
Leave a comment if you’d like me to email you a full-resolution version of any of these (12.2 megapixels).
Tags: Photography, Singapore, Botanic Gardens, Plants, Nature, Flowers, Water, Sculpture, Art
Those are some beautiful photos, the botanical gardens look amazing! I’m glad you didn’t close the blog down, I do really enjoy reading what you have to say.
[Marc replied on 17 July 2009 via email]
Really good to see your not going to give up the blog Marc, as others have said there’s no need to delete it – just update it when you have the time and something to say. You’ve done a great job with the setup so it seems a waste to remove it when you might want it in the future. Nice the favicon btw.
I like the post, especially the final photo, and I’m looking forward to the other parts – I’m off on Tuesday so I’ll have to catch up with them when I get back!
Looked though your new photos on flickr, is the 28mm new? I’m really getting into primes at the moment, loving the 1.8 35mm I got for my Nikon, I’ll get a 1.4 50mm if I can ever afford a D700.
Do you recommend WordPress? I can’t do any web stuff it might be too difficult for me – I’m thinking of using it to get a website for gig photos when I get started in the autumn
[Marc replied on 19 July 2009 via email]
I’ve heard the Botanical Gardens in Singapore are amazing. Looks like they have some neat sculptures, too.
[Marc replied on 19 July 2009 via email]
For you from Tabbie via me
Photos 3 and 4 from the top show the plant known as Caesalpinia pulcherrima ‘Compton’ and is commonly called the Pride of Barbados or Dwarf Pink Poinciana.
In photo 6 you’ve most likely captured an image of the butterfly known as the “Common Rose” or Pachliopta aristolochiae asteris. It’s actually not so common in Singapore but is known to frequent the botanical gardens there. Tabbie doesn’t know what flower it is feeding on but is going nuts trying to figure it out.
Tabbie thinks Photo 8 is some type of Canna Lily.
Photo 10 is of the ubiquitous tropical Plumeria rubra, commonly known as Plumeria or Frangipani. There are countless named cultivars of this plant which is widespread throughout the world. It happens to be one of Tabbie’s favorites. The Thai have recently developed a couple of super dwarf varieties which undoubtedly will become part of Tabbie’s collection sooner or later. Plumerias can be grown outdoors during the summer and stored dormant indoors for the winter.
Nice photo blog you have. I got some shots of Singapore Botanical Garden at hellosingapore.com hope you can drop by!