Patricia Silk: Singapore, 31 March 2009

This was my second shoot in Singapore and it was with Patricia Silk from Diva (Model), Aaron Kok (Stylist), Clarion Wee (Stylist’s Assistant), Hannah Oh (MUA) and Shawn Danker (Assistant). Patricia delivers the most amazing poses on a shoot. She doesn’t just pose, she acts out the emotions, she moves by the shutter. We were all in awe just watching her.

It was quite a day, we were reprimanded by an old waitress for doing hair and makeup at McDonalds (and got a lot of distasteful stares–Welcome to Singapore), almost got run over by a train (more on that later), was close to getting heat stroke and developed major sunburns under the deceiving overcast sky.

Getting all glam at McDonald’s.

The tracks at King Albert Park.

Food break.

Endangering our lives in the middle of the railway tracks.

At one point while shooting on the tracks, a train was coming towards us and we had to grab all our clothes, makeup and equipment and run down the pebble slope. The train operators were screaming at us and we were in such shock being so close to being run over. Before you think ‘what were you doing on the tracks in the first place, stupid?’, this railway is hardly ever utilized because it’s meant for cargo and long distance trains which only come by every few hours. The operators came over to chase us away so we went across the bridge to a wider, safer track but what an adrenaline rush! Sort of a close-shave-with-risking-our-lives moment.

Anyway here are the final shots as well as the behind-the-scenes video.

Sweaty, dehydrated, sunburnt and a few seconds from being run over or rolling down the slopes with all our stuff, was it worth it? Certainly a shoot I would never forget. Pity I have no video footage during that little incident! Damn.

Railway workers united. Aaron, Clarion, Me, Patricia and Hannah.

Posted: July 20th, 2009 | Category: Photoshoots | Tags: Photoshoots, Singapore | No Comments »

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