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To supplement an editorial commission that I'll be photographing next week, I spent the better part of this afternoon trolling my archives for relevant, recent Singapore stock imagery.

For me, this process of combing through my hard drives of old images involves looking beyond just the photographs that I selected or "flagged" during my initial edit.  Instead, I take the time to look holistically at the entire shoot and all my raw captures, regardless of how mundane they might be.  It might seem like a waste of time to some people, but I enjoy it because it allows me an opportunity to see my work with fresh eyes, showing me how my own photographic style has changed over time.  I also love it for the one or two images that I always seem to stumble upon that make me wonder why I didn't do anything with them the first time around.

I consider myself more of a "people photographer" than a "landscape photographer".  But this panorama -- made a couple of years ago from high in a Housing Development Board (HBD) flat looking out across a sea of apartments in Singapore's Ang Mo Kio neighbourhood whilst shooting a feature for the UK edition of GQ Magazine -- is one of those photographs that I "found" today.

I am struck by how small everything appears below, but even more by the homogeneity in the picture; it makes me feel like I am looking out across a Singapore Legoland.