Photo of the Day: Taken by Nicholas Tan Jiale, winner of “Best of Show (Student Category)”.
This photo also won top place in Theme 1: Vision in the Student Category, the first of three themes in this year’s Canon PhotoMarathon. Photo credit: Nicholas Tan Jiale.
The photo is also the top photo for Theme 1: Vision in Canon PhotoMarathon 2016 for the Student Category..
Nicholas Tan is a student at Singapore Polytechnic.
Photo of the Day: Black and white shot of a jogger running on a bridge leading to the Singapore Sports Hub. Taken by Lim Mark Anthony Pamintuan, winner of “Best of Show (Open Category)”.
Mark’s submission for Theme 3 in this year’s Canon PhotoMarathon. Photo credit: Lim Mark Anthony Pamintuan.
Guess who was the jogger in this photo?
It’s none other than the photographer himself!
When I chatted with Mark about the photo, he shared that he frequently went to that bridge to take photos – so when the third theme was announced, he immediately formed this image in his mind.
Photo of the Day: Atmospheric monochrome shot of a worker examining grocery stock in the warehouse of a grocery store. Taken by Lim Mark Anthony Pamintuan, winner of “Best of Show (Open Category)”.
Mark’s submission for Theme 2: Kyosei – the second of three themes in this year’s Canon PhotoMarathon. Photo credit: Lim Mark Anthony Pamintuan.
When I chatted with Mark about the photo, he shared that he originally wanted to take a photo inside a temple with people in it.
Photo of the Day: Taken by Lim Mark Anthony Pamintuan, winner of “Best of Show (Open Category)”.
This photo also won top place in Theme 1: Vision, the first of three themes in this year’s Canon PhotoMarathon. Photo credit: Lim Mark Anthony Pamintuan.
When I chatted with Mark about the photo, he shared that he decided to go to the Singapore Flyer because it was one of the famous icons here.
The annual photography competition takes place today on Saturday, 19 November, 2016 at the Suntec City Convention & Exhibition Centre 401-402.
Update (end of 19 November, 2016):
The results of the Canon PhotoMarathon has been released.
The winners are listed below.
I will be posting the winners’ photos on Instagram over the next few days to share with everyone the quality photos that came out of this competition.
BEST OF SHOW – STUDENT
Tan Jiale Nicholas, SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC
BEST OF SHOW – OPEN
Lim Mark Anthony Pamintuan
SCHOOL CHALLENGE WINNER
ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL (INDEPENDENT)
STUDENT CATEGORY
1ST Tan Jiale Nicholas, SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC
2ND Nicolas Chua, ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL (INDEPENDENT)
3RD Chew Ying Xuan Carina, PEI HWA SECONDARY SCHOOL
OPEN CATEGORY
1ST Lim Mark Anthony Pamintuan
2ND Wee Keng Hor
3RD Byron Moray Pittendrigh
STUDENT CATEGORY
1ST Wan Aniqah Mahirah, QUEENSWAY SECONDARY SCHOOL
2ND Yang Sze Yuan Ivan, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
3RD Ng Jia Ching, SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC
OPEN CATEGORY
1ST Ng Clarence
2ND Bacalso Nino Jim Apit
3RD Nazri Bin Bajuri
CANON CHALLENGE WINNER (only Canon users qualify)
LI JIAXUAN
STUDENT CATEGORY
1ST Emmanuel Benedict, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
2ND Tan Yan Sheng Shawnn, ANGLO-CHINESE JUNIOR COLLEGE
3RD Ng Jun Ying, HWA CHONG INSTITUTION
OPEN CATEGORY
1ST Soong Yi Wei Noel
2ND Lim Tee Lip
3RD Heppi Wasyeri
The annual photography competition will take place on Saturday, 19 November, 2016 at the Suntec City Convention & Exhibition Centre 401-402. Registration fee: S$15.
Some 2,000 photography enthusiasts participated in this year’s Canon PhotoMarathon.
The results of the Canon PhotoMarathon has been released and are listed here.
Registration is open for Canon PhotoMarathon XIV in Singapore.
Registration is now open for the biggest photography event in Singapore.
The overall winner stands to win an all expenses paid trip to Japan.
Lenovo has launched a new community campaign – #LightAndSeek – weaving technology and creativity to ignite the Singapore landscape. 10 local artists will use the Lenovo YOGA Tablet 2 Pro to create and project artworks around Arab Street.
#LightAndSeek – happening on Friday, 17 April, 2015 in the Arab Street area in Singapore. Click to view enlarged map of the locality.
For one night only on April 17 this year, Singapore will come alive with an art exhibition that will change the way we see the local art landscape.
The event will bring together ten of Singapore’s rising artists to create a series of artworks that will come to life across ten locations spaces around Arab Street and be projected by the Lenovo YOGA Tablet 2 Pro.
As the facilitator to all these voices and visuals, Lenovo aims to engage the growing local art community at large and give true local DO-ers a chance to project themselves like never before, and for the public to immerse themselves with art through a truly memorable experience.
Throughout the course of this one-night-only event, the YOGA Tablet 2 Pro will be used to showcase creative pieces by the local artists – allowing the blend of a canvas and space through an interactive medium.
The artists will be creating and projecting their artworks using the Lenovo YOGA Tablet 2 Pro.
Promoting interactivity and versatility like never before, the tablet comes enabled with the new Pico projector that projects a 16:9 high resolution image onto any surface for an instant 50-inch theatre experience.
Featuring a 13.3-inch QHD (2560×1440) IPS display for life-like images, the multimode also comes equipped with up to 15 hours of battery.
Slimmer than your average magazine at just 3.7mm thin and 950 grams, the Platinum-colored tablet also comes enabled with an 8 watt sound system that enables impromptu displays and performances anytime and anywhere.
In conjunction with the #LightAndSeek event, a ‘Snap N Win’ contest will also be held throughout the day of April 17, and will be open to the public till midnight.
Only 12,300 units of the limited edition PS4 will be available worldwide. It will be priced SGD689 in Singapore, IDR7,399,000 in Indonesia, RM1,779 in Malaysia, PHP26,999 in The Philippines, and THB20,990 in Thailand.
Update from AFA 2014 (4 December, 2014):
There will be a “PlayStation 20th Anniversary Online Contest” for customers in Southeast Asia to get a chance to win a purchase pass to buy the PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition.
Participants will also get a chance to win a PlayStation Plus 3-Year Membership and PlayStation 20th Anniversary Limited Premiums in addition to the purchase pass.
In addition to the contest, SCEH Singapore Branch has created some special premiums to give away to customers for purchase of PlayStation console or software.
There will also be some specially designed PSN prepaid cards featuring different classic game titles to commemorate PlayStation’s 20th anniversary.
The contest will be held from 4th December to 21st December, 2014.
Customers can log in to the “PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Website” from now on and register to participate in the contest within this period.
The participants will need to use their creativity to express why they should be given the purchase pass to buy the PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition.
They can share any photo or video on Instagram to celebrate PlayStation 20th Anniversary with a specific hashtag.
The themes can be:
All winners will be determined by the number of likes on Instagram (50%) and selected by a judging panel according to creative, inspiring and styling factors (50%).
An appearance reminiscent of the original PS: The PlayStation 4(PS4) system, Wireless Controller (DUALSHOCK 4), PlayStation Camera, vertical stand and the mono headset all come in “Original Gray,” a limited color that replicates that of the original console. The PS family mark labels are on the PS4 system, DUALSHOCK 4, and PlayStation Camera. The combination of colors is similar to that of the original PS.
The number 12,300 reflects the launch date of the original PlayStation on 3rd December, 1994.
The PS4 itself as well as the surface of the DUALSHOCK 4 controller’s touch pad are embossed with the “△2○×□” pattern, a special arrangement of the “△○×□” logo mark with “○” resembling the number “0” to indicate the 20th anniversary.
The limited edition PS4 – which resembles the original PlayStation – and included accessories will come in “Original Gray” colour, packaged in a special commemorative box.
The original PlayStation was the first home console in video game history to reach a milestone of over 100 million units in cumulative worldwide shipments.
The limited edition PS4 offers a sense of nostalgia to long-time PlayStation fans, while also providing a fresh experience to those who never picked up the original console.
The PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition includes the following:
You get to use for free US$35,000 worth of Progress software development tools, enjoy US$10,000 worth of product training and mentoring, and potentially win up to US$25,000 in market development funds.
Take up the Progress-XTC Challenge. Register by 30 September, 2014.
The Progress-XTC Challenge is actually a contest within a contest. It is held as part of the EXtreme Tech Challenge (XTC), of which Progress Software is a sponsor.
To take part in the Progress-XTC Challenge, you’re required to build an application using one to three of the following Progress technologies:
From 1 to 31 July 2014, GrabTaxi and MyTeksi users stand to win 2-month Deezer Premium+ subscriptions which allow users to enjoy unlimited access to 30 million tracks online and offline, while on the road.
Ride on GrabTaxi or MyTeksi in July to win a 2-month Deezer Premium + subscription.
Global music streaming service Deezer today announced the contest with GrabTaxi, the largest Southeast Asian taxi-booking mobile app, to provide GrabTaxi users who win with access to unlimited music through its Premium+ subscriptions.
Below are more details from the press release.
