Where to watch the National Day Fireworks!

Tonight's our first visit to The Promontory at Marina Bay - we didn't know this place offers some of the best night scenery of the Singapore city! What's best? The vast open landscape provides lots of standing room to accommodate everyone!

And it is super windy! you could definitely fly a kite here. Perfect for an evening picnic; bet we'll be here more often ;)

It was just one of the Saturday of full-dressed rehearsal for the forthcoming National Day Parade and we didn't bother with tripod set up; Ric just snapped these photos with the automatic night scene mode on our Sony Alpha 550. Turns out pretty well, though not of professional quality and with most shots being over-exposed.

Tips: With camera on tripod, set your camera to ISO 100 and aperture of at least F11 to avoid over-exposure.

Update: Returned to the same venue for the official National Day Preview on 30 Jul '10 to catch the state flag fly-past with 5 thundering fighter jets and much grander pyrotechnics display! I later learned that it was just 50% of the total firework that would be released on the actual day! So, beat the crowd and consider to be there on 9th Aug ;)

Happy 46th birthday, Majulah Singapore!