Labrador Park/Fort Pasir Panjang, former defence battery, nature park and designated reserve area, in the Bukit Merah area, located in the Central Region. Known as Fort Pasir Panjang during colonial times, it was one of 11 coastal artillery forts built by the British in the 19th century to defend Singapore's waters. Fort Pasir Panjang and the Labrador Battery was constructed to defend the western entrance to Keppel Harbour. Once a rocky coastline, land reclamation and development of a seawall has changed its original rugged look. Today Labrador Park, also known as Tanjong Berlayer Beach Park is a historic, leisure and nature park, and 4 of the original gun platforms of the Labrador battery still exist as historic relics. In 1864, a fort complex with concrete bunkers, underground tunnels, and gun batteries were built and embedded on this coastal cliffside, for defence purposes. Completed in 1878 and called Fort Pasir Panjang, the location overlooked the harbour and was part of an extensive network of coastal defences built by the British colonial rulers of Singapore. With the possible outbreak of war in the region in 1938, the Labrador Battery was upgraded. Thus on the eve of World War II, Fort Pasir Panjang had the addition of 2 six-inch 37-ton guns that could fire 102 lb shells to a distance of almost 10 miles. Added were also searchlights which could beam at enemy ships and track them. This defence position was part of a strategy based on the popular belief that an invasion of Singapore would probably come via a coastal attack, and so the placements of these guns fixed facing the sea. However they could be turned around. In fact this was the case in February 1942, during World War II, when the guns were reversed almost 180 degrees to fire the advancing Japanese Imperial Forces in the Pasir Panjang/Alexandra Road area, but they proved ineffective against invading land forces because of their very flat trajectory.

The very first ever Digital Photography class under the graphic design associates degree at Full Sail. In Lab 07, we went to the green screen room and used their lights to photograph a product. The "product" was the three dimensional logos the students had sculpted with Sculpy and paint for their Logos & Symbols class, which they take alongside of Digital Photography. After the logo has been photographed from several different angles, the student sketches the lighting set up and saves an 800 x 600 version of the file. We discuss distracting shadows, soft boxes, lighting to show off an object's three dimensional qualities, and showing enough detail in shadows.