Singapore has an excellent metro system, which I used frequently during my three business trip visits. However, with my mom, it was easier and perhaps faster to use taxis. We hopped in a cab from the Raffles Hotel to our next destination for a little bit of greenery.

I snapped this picture from the fast-moving taxi and caught the skyline from the highway that runs on the other side of the bay. The petal-shaped building in the foreground is the ArtScience Museum. Looking at the map, I’m unsure whether we were on Bayfront Avenue or Sheares Avenue. Either way, people who know Singapore can guess where we were headed next. It’s also a popular tourist spot.

At 1/200 of a second, I still got foreground motion blur, though the background skyline is sharp. It wasn’t planned, but having the motion blur adds more context and is probably a better photo than if everything was sharp. I’ll always take happy and unplanned accidents in photography.

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