Haven’t had a free Saturday afternoon for a while. Chilling by the pool with a glass of iced-lemon tea and thick-cut onion rings. Juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside. Yumz.
Onion rings takeaway from Trappers Cafe.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 400, f3.5, 1/30 sec.
The South-East-Asian region is choked in smoke originating from illegal forest fires and large-scale agricultural burning in Indonesia. An annual affair, the transboundary air pollution is causing health and social-economic problems for affected countries.
With the haze, I was able to photograph the sun directly without using a ND filter. A neutral density filter is a glass filter that cuts down the light, enabling a lower shutter speed or wider aperture. The thick haze acts as one.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1/1250 sec.
Back to Klang Valley, I thought I saw an eagle soaring high above misty million-year-old rainforest.
The eagle is actually a 5-foot wide fabric kite flying opposite the fragile Forest Research Institute in Kepong. The mist is dirty haze. Reality bites like an eagle.
