Travel Photography | Supertree Grove | Gardens By The Bay | Singapore

© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Supertree Grove at Gardens By The Bay | Singapore

Before I move on, I just wanted to share with you a little bit history about Gardens By The Bay that that I found from – Gardens By The Bay Website

History of Gardens by the Bay

Gardens by the Bay brings to life NParks’ vision of creating a City in a Garden. The Gardens captures the essence of Singapore as the premier tropical Garden City with the perfect environment in which to live and work – making Singapore a leading global city of the 21st century.

In January 2006, an international master plan design competition was launched to seek world-class design ideas for Gardens by the Bay. It drew more than 70 entries submitted by 170 firms, from over 24 countries, including 35 from Singapore.

An 11-member Jury comprising local and international experts shortlisted eight teams and two winners were announced in September 2006; namely Grant Associates for Bay South and Gustafson Porter for Bay East, both from the UK. A decision was made to develop Bay Central later.

A public exhibition of the master plan concepts and models of the winning teams was held in September 2006 at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Over 10,000 people visited the exhibition and over 700 gave their feedback. An overwhelming majority 85% of those surveyed liked the features in the master plans and over 97% said they would visit the gardens.

Bay South Garden broke ground in November 2007, signalling the commencement of the Gardens’ development. Subsequently, development of Bay East Garden also commenced. It was developed as an interim garden to be used as a staging site for some of the rowing and canoeing events of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in August 2010. Following the YOG, Bay East underwent reinstatement works and was open to the public in October 2011.

A special preview of parts of Bay South Garden, including the Flower Dome, was held in November 2011 in conjunction with the World Orchid Conference (WOC). Some 300,000 members of the public visited both WOC and Bay South Garden. (Source : Gardens By The Bay)

If you are into Cityscape, Landscape or Architecture Photography, I think you will love this place. Actually this area is quite huge, I did not have the time to explore every square inch of this place since I’m here in Singapore for an assignment and not purposely for sightseeing but since I’ve a couple of free times, me and my other media colleague from Malaysia decided to visit this place since this place is one of the place that our King will visit (we are on an assignment covering Malaysia’s King Abdul Halim State Visit to Singapore).

© 2014 Gardens By The Bay | Map

To really photograph this place in all its glory, you need to make a multiple visit, because this area looks amazing during blue hour, just few minutes after sunset. This Supertrees becomes alive with colourful light. You don’t have to pay anything just to visit this area, maybe a taxi tare or MRT fare, you only need to pay Singapore Dollar 5, if you wanted to walk on that OCBC Skyway up there. Don’t forget to bring a tripod here, but all of the photograph taken here were handheld using ISO 3200 using 24-70 mm Lens.

As you can see from the map above, there are quite a few potential place for a great composition especially around the lakes, where you can get a beautiful reflections of the Supertree Grove against Marina Bay Sands as your background.

Anyway, if you planning to visit this place, here is some info on how to get to Gardens By The Bay;