For Ponnappan Narayanan, his love for taking pictures of parks started when he bought a DSLR camera eight years ago. With his trusty camera, he would visit parks around Singapore and take pictures of them in the early morning or evening, especially where there are waterways as he liked how much the light reflects off the water to brighten the plants and other objects on it.

Paradise has a home in Singapore. I found it at the top of the seven-storey Jejawi Tower, which rises above the forest canopy of Chek Jawa. With my four-year-old daughter, we marvelled at the egrets and herons feeding along the shoreline. Parakeets soared beneath us, monitor lizards ambled through the mangroves and the hundreds of fiddler crabs made the sandy beach appear as a moving red and white carpet.

A dragonfly habitat along a park connector is not something many expect to see. But it is now a surprising reality at Ulu Pandan Park Connector.