Symbolic of the Sun

It was quite tough trying to decipher and express the theme "Symbolic of the Sun".

When I first started out shooting on this theme, I came up with the following.

f/5.7 & 26mm & 1/250secs & ISO 250

f/5.6 & 85mm & 1/2500secs & ISO 250

Both of these pictures were shot at the Esplanade. However, after the presentation in class, I felt these two photos were more actually more like iconic or direct representation of the sun.

I thought about it and realise that when we say something is "symbolic", it should be referring to an object having a relation with or representation to another object.

I did a second attempt on this theme.

f/5.7 & 64mm & 1/640secs & ISO 400

This image above is of a few bamboo poles. A bamboo pole is used when we need to hang our clothes to dry. So logically speaking, no one hangs their clothes out to dry when its raining. Therefore, I thought this would be quite reflective of the theme.

However, talking about drying of clothes when the sun is out, why not try an attempt at that?

f/5.7 & 85mm & 1/80secs & ISO 100

So I took this photo of my neigbour drying their towels at the corridor on a sunny day. Some might think that the colour blue (it was purely coincidental) does not really reflect a warm sunny day but to me (I actually did notice that), I think that it is a very interesting contrast.

Most importantly, the fact that the towels are left out in the open to dry shows that the weather is good and reflects very well on the theme "Symbolic of the Sun".