Let’s Visit Asia

A friend of mine emailed some illustrations of the future casino currently under construction in Sentosa Island in Singapore, set to open early in 2010. I can’t post them here as I can’t trace the origins and provide credit, but they are basically the same as those featured in the headers of the Resorts World Sentosa website.
I am awed at those illustrations, not just with the sheer expanse and attractions planned, but mainly because it’s blows my mind that something so extraordinary and sophisticated can rise from a site that currently looks like this:

This photo is from my personal collection, …read more

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For those of you who aren’t familiar with the word, a panography, also called panoramic panography, is a format of photography that displays an image with exceptionally wide fields of view.

The WHTour.org has compiled already over 200 panographies of sites included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and more are going to be uploaded in the near future. I’ve checked out some of the images, and it truly brings a different dimension to looking at travel photos. The images are brilliant, and you can “drag” the image with your mouse, to give you a 360° view of the area– not …read more

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If you’ve ever been to Asia, surely, you have made some spectacular photos. Whether you’ve been to the beach, to the temples, to the jungles, or in the heart of the metropoles, you’d have had ample opportunity to make fantastic, truly remarkable images. Why not enter your favorite at Perceptive Travel’s Remarkable Photo Contest and stand to win a Lowepro CompuDaypack Camera Bag.
You may enter two of your best shots to the contest, and they must be in jpeg format, no more than 200 d.p.i. and a maximum of 600 pixels wide or tall. See further contest details and give …read more

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