Month : Nov ‘08 Location : Marina Barrage, Singapore
The Marina Barrage is a dam built across the 350-metre wide Marina Channel to keep out seawater, forming Singapore’s first reservoir in the city and 15th reservoir.. With a catchment area of 10,000 hectares, or one-sixth the size of Singapore, the Marina catchment is the island’s largest and most urbanised catchment.
The Marina Barrage is part of a comprehensive flood control scheme to alleviate flooding in the low-lying areas in the city such as Chinatown, Boat Quay, Jalan Besar and Geylang. During heavy rain, the series of nine crest gates at the dam will be activated to release excess storm water into the sea when the tide is low.In the case of high tide, giant pumps which are capable of pumping an Olympics-size swimming pool per minute will drain excess storm water into the sea. – PUB
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Tags: attraction, dam, icon, marina barrage, reservoir, singapore, water
July 7th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Very nice and beautiful night sceneries of the Marina Barrage, excellent use of the shutter timer and colours !
Gave me an insight of how to take different views of the Marina Barrage in the night since I have not explored the night scenery in detail yet, only done the sunset sceneries of the Marina Bay and CBD.
Would look at your flickr photos to view more of your photos !
Keep shooting and sharing !
JH
http://www.photojournalist-tgh.tv
July 12th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I’ve been in Singapore for quite a while but I didn’t know this place before. Where is it exactly?
July 12th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Hi Rad!
It’s at Marina South.. You should try to visit there since you haven’t yet.
But there’ll be lots of people over there now…
Take the train to Marina South station and there’s a bus from there..
July 14th, 2009 at 8:59 am
wow, awesome shots!
your photographs always looked so professional,
you’re good, very good! =D
July 14th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Thanks for your compliment..
July 16th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Stunning.. Your talent just amazes me.. jaw-dropping stunningly beautiful! Really and Truly!
July 17th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Thank you Kristin for your sweet words..
August 11th, 2009 at 4:37 am
very nice shots of the Marina Barrage (MB) at night!
must try taking night shots of the MB the next time i visit it…
you must have used a tripod right?
August 12th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Hi Geotacs!
Thanks for your compliment..
Saw the pics of MB on your blog.
I’ve never seen that part of MB before.. haha! Maybe I should go there again
and visit those next time around. ;P
And yeah, I used a tripod..