Team ItalyFirst show for SFF 2006...
Italy is one of the leading fashion nation in the world... Rightly so... It's a nation rich in style and great taste in the arts...
And it's reflected in their fireworks display too...
I felt immensely happy while shooting the fireworks... Tapping my feet to the music during the high tempo moments, and admiring the colours and synchronised explosions while Pavarotti's singing was played... Fast, then slow, then fast again... My feelings were driven entirely by this majestic display...
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Team New Caledonia3rd display of the SFF 2006...
New Caledonia... Debutant of the SFF... Where on earth is New Caledonia?
It's actually an island lying somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean... to the west of Australia, somewhere near Papau New Guinea... It actually a country belonging to France!!!
It's a country similar to New Zealand, with it's unique species of flora and fauna due to it's isolated geography...
And this very display was inspired by mother nature...
I thought I saw a tropical isle with swaying coconut tress and palm trees... I thought I saw flowers of different colours in full majestic bloom... I even thought I saw chinese calligraphy painted in the night canvas... It's absolutely calming and unique in it's choreography...
This is in fact my favourite show among all 4... It might not have the glorious colours of Team Italy... But it's artistic depth becomes more apparent when I began to realise what it was trying to portray...
Simply amazing...
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Team FranceLast show of SFF 2006...
The organisers tried to save the best for last... It's a French Encore... After a splendid display and popularity last year...
Lesser colours than last year... Deceptively so... A quick count and there were only 3 major colours throughout the entire display... And this is where the mastery of the French Team becomes most apparent...
Like last year, the French has the knack of keeping things unhurried... indifferent... and in an enticing and teasing manner even... the display slowly built up to a climax... an extended climate even, when the entire night sky was littered with golden explosions after golden explosions... and just when I thought there's only so much the night sky could contain, the French just kept them coming...
What a glorious ending!!! So typical French... No wonder they are the best lovers in the world!
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Team SingaporeTeam Singapore's display was reserved for the eve of the nation's 41st birthday...
All I can say is that the team has been there, and done that... nothing more...
It's a display that shows that Singapore has the technical expertise to produce a fireworks display... But it stops just there...
In all the other shows, I could feel... I could feel what the choreographers wanted to portray... My feelings and mood were driven and led by the fireworks... And these foreign teams have raised fireworks displays into an artform... I do not feel like I'm watching a technically perfect execution of pyrotechnics... There was a soul behind each displays...
That's exactly what Team Singapore lacked...
In our pursuit of excellence in every aspects in our nation building, our pursuit of artistic excellence has not been able to keep up... We still lack a bit of soul... We still lack that ability to express artistically... We can boast to the world with our magnificant Esplande where world-class performances are presented... But how many of our own productions are world-class in standard?
Technically, we are almost there... Soul-wise, 41 years of nationhood is still considered at its infancy...
(My whole series of the SFF 2006 is HERE)
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