Photos from Singapore: The Singapore Flyer(Part 2)

More pictures from the Singapore Flyer. The entire experience was surreal, and the scenes were unbelievable. And then, just behind our car was a restaurant car, where a couple were having dinner... So romantic(?) It's almost five times as expensive as eating outside, so if you are the kind of person who can dine there, you would probably want to go someplace fancier, like France or Switzerland. My mother would hit me hard if I ate food on the Rote Ping, though that does make sense: eating roti in rote ping,

This was the beginning. From this, I knew from the very beginning what a rad time was going to have. Notice that the compartment in this picture is a restaurant car. Meals in those cars start at Sing$ 200 and are expensive by Singapore standards, but not so much that they are not worth it. Whatever meals you pre-order, you will be given a complimentary bottle of champagne, so hurray! for that.

I took this picture just as we started going up. It's not very clear in the picture, but the feat achieved here is damn impressive--remember, the entire Flyer rests upon a building, so there's quite a lot of hollow space where the Flyer's footprint falls upon the building. Instead of wasting the space, they have planted a tropical forest--with living tropical trees and some birds and all--right inside the building! I actually choked a little bit when I discovered this.

The next three pictures are what I have been talking about! I had an okay camera, and I got these gorgeous shots. I will say this again-- Singapore is a gorgeous, gorgeous city. Even though it has little history and heritage, it makes up for that in its absolute awesomeness and  cheeriness.

With these pictures, it was with luck more than talent that I got just the right exposure. I have some bad test shots, and they show that were the camera exposure even a bar higher, Singapore would have been a city of bright, blinding spots of lights instead of colourful buildings. Had it been slightly lower, there would be some dim spots in the very dark background.

With the last two pictures specially, I got both the cityscape as well as the clouds. The glass wall on our compartment was a problem though, and specks of dust were posing a rather serious thread to my photographic ambitions. Luckily, the autofocus on the camera apparently 'ignores' the nearby objects if you are interested in those that are faraway.