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Liquid Man Of Steel

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The goalkeeper is already on his knees. Stretching his long arm and tattooed wrist, he punches the ball over the crossbar. A dramatic save from the man of steel. The Liquid Man of Steel.

Like everyone else I like the sunny days but I don’t despair when it rains. Rainy days present interesting and challenging opportunities for the lens. Like struggling with an umbrella with one hand and camera with the other.

This picture is actually raindrops rolling off the edge of my umbrella as I walked in the rain. I rotated the image vertically. Turn your phone or tablet upside down to view and you will get the picture.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 12800, f6.3, 1/4000 sec.

Liquid Man Of Steel

 

Bukit Broga – The Hill That Waited For Facebook

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Broga Hill is a hipsters’ magnet the way Devils Towers was in the film Close Encounters of The Third Kind. On any Sunday, you will see hordes of people gravitating towards the hill on the border of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. Unlike the folks drawn to the UFO landing site in the Spielberg movie, hipsters flock to Bukit Broga for a simpler reason. To camwhore for Facebook and Instagram.

Many hipsters wrongly believe Broga is the birthplace of broga (or yoga for bros who can’t touch their toes). The foothill town is actually named after the local Broga River. I’ve been up the hill before Facebook was invented. The climb then was through a little-known hiking trail. Characterised by long blade grass and embedded with big rocks, Bukit Broga had very few visitors before the advent of digital cameras.

Yesterday I was in the area and decided to take a peep from nearby Nottingham University Semenyih Campus. Using a long tele lens, I was surprised to see so many people posing up there. Social media is good for domestic tourism, apparently.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 1250, f6.7, 1/2500 sec.

Bukit Broga