I am a hobbyist wildlife photographer based in Singapore. I specialise in bird photography, but only because the bird life in Singapore is much more accessible than other type of animals.<\/p>\n
I consider myself equally a bird photographer and a bird twitcher in Singapore. I try very hard to see every rare birds that appear, and at the same time, get the best possible photos of every bird I encounter.<\/p>\n
I travel occasionally, and I try as much as possible to enjoy my encounters with wildlife in other countries, without worrying too much about how many birds or wildlife I get to see.<\/p>\n
In between all of this, I was involved in the local birding community in various ways. Firstly in 2013, I started the Bird Sightings Facebook<\/a> group, which is now the largest Facebook group dedicated to wild bird sightings in both in Singapore and Malaysia.<\/p>\n Next, I started the Singapore Birds Project<\/a> (now called Birds of Singapore) website in 2016 to to document all the wild birds in Singapore through individual species accounts. In 2023, together with the active members of the project, we formed the Bird Society of Singapore<\/a>. I currently hold no executive role in the society, as the younger generation of birders have stepped up to take leadership positions.<\/p>\n In 2024, I retired from work, and have more time to indulge in the hobby and hopefully do some more writing.<\/p>\n My bird photos have been featured and used by National Parks Board<\/a>, Nature Society (Singapore)<\/a>, Malaysian Nature Society<\/a>, Sentosa Development Corporation<\/a>, Singapore Press Holdings<\/a>, Tourism Malaysia<\/a> and Oriental Bird Club<\/a>. I have been interviewed by The Straits Times<\/a> and appeared on Mediacorp TV <\/a>for my birding activities. For what is essentially a hobby, that has been a pleasant surprise. I do not aspire, nor have the talent and work ethics necessary to be an award winning bird photographer or a champion bird twitcher but I want to do well enough in the things I dabble in.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a hobbyist wildlife photographer based in Singapore. I specialise in bird photography, but only because the bird life in Singapore is much more accessible than other type of animals. I consider myself equally a bird photographer and a bird twitcher in Singapore. I try very hard to see every rare birds that appear, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3267\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fryap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}