This is the second part of our competition and in this challenge, participants are required to submit a maximum of 10 photographs regarding the title – ‘Snapshots of Singapore’. Anyway, below are 8 stunning photographs we guys have taken at several iconic landmarks such as Sentosa, Marina Bay and the Singapore Business District.

Check it out and enjoy! If you want to view the large size photos, simply just click the photo, and the lightbox effect will lead you to a more wonderful and enjoyable slideshow.

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Singapore Airlines is one of the world’s leading airline company and it’s 6th in the world for international passengers carried. Singapore Airlines is also the first in the world to fly the A380-800. In this photo, it reflects the livery of Singapore Airlines includes the “bird” (also known as the Silver Kris) logo on the tailfin, which has remained unchanged since Singapore Airlines’ inception, but the logotype and stripes used since 1972 were changed in 1988 to the ones still in use today.

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The Merlion is one of Singapore iconic feature. It’s actually an imaginary creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Its name combines “mer” meaning the sea and “lion”. Singapore has two Merlions. The larger one is located at Sentosa island and the another can be found at Merlion Park (which is the one above). In the background, you will be to see Singapore’s tallest hotel – Swissotel the Stanford and Esplanade, the center that contains world-class performing spaces, coupled with a wide range of professional support services and facilities.

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Sentosa is a tourist attraction and a popular island resort. In this photograph, you can see a bunch newly-wed couples, children with their families and beach-goers spending their weekends at the two-kilometer beach at Sentosa.

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You might be wondering why are those people queuing up with slips of papers on their hands. Well, they are actually gambling. Of course, it’s through a legal lottery operator called Singapore Pools. TOTO and 4-D are the common legalized form of lottery sold in Singapore.

A TOTO buyer picks at least six numbers, each on a basis of 1 to 45. The winning numbers drawn include six numbers plus an additional number. Four or more numbers on a ticket matching the seven numbers drawn qualifies the buyer for a cash prize. The prize money escalates with the increase in numbers matched.

The maximum allowed matching numbers is six. Thus, if six numbers on the TOTO ticket matches the six numbers drawn, the jackpot (Group 1) prize is won.

For 4-D, People play by choosing any number from 0000 to 9999. Then, 23 winning numbers are drawn each time. If one of the numbers match the one that the player has bought, a prize is won. The 4-D banker chooses the bets with the lowest bet frequencies for the prizes.

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This photo is taken during Singapore’s 44th National Day Parade (rehearsal). The actual parade is held on 9 August at the Marina Bay floating platform, in commemoration of Singapore’s independence. For the past few years, it was held at the National Stadium located at Kallang but due to the revamp of the stadium, the location was changed starting from 2007. In the foreground, a sea of ‘red people’ proudly holding the Singapore flag in their hands. Singapore Flyer, the world’s tallest Ferris Wheel can be seen in the background.

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The national flag of Singapore symbolizes a young nation on the ascendant, universal brotherhood and equality, and national ideals. The design is a horizontal bicolour of red above white, charged in the canton by a white crescent moon facing, toward the fly, a pentagon of five small white five-pointed stars. It was first adopted on 3 December 1959, the year Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.

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Photographed in the Central Business District, it shows two of Singapore’s tallest buildings – the United Overseas Bank Plaza One and Overseas Union Bank Center. We were quick fortunate to snap a photo of the bird flying across the area.

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This photograph clearly shows two different perspectives of Singapore. In the background, you will see a modern Singapore with a beautiful city skyline filled with many skyscrapers. They have contributed a lot to Singapore’s prosperous economy. However, the shop houses on the right reflects on the old Singapore.

At one time, the Singapore River was the very lifeblood of the colony, the trade artery, the center of commercial activity, the heart of entrepot trade, the vessel of importance, the capillaries of life and the place which was frequented by the secret societies, the coolies who worked for the philanthropist Tan Tock Seng at Ellenborough Market and Tan Kim Seng who was busy filling his godown with the riches of the East.