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Mother Nature’s Christmas Tree

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A fir tree is decorated like a Christmas Tree by Mother Nature herself. Out-of-focus rain and dew drops on the leaves and twigs appear like decorative Christmas tree lights and ornaments. All I had to do was to focus on the cone with the sun behind the water droplets.

This tree is located in the Botanical Gardens of the Forest Research Insitute Malaysia (FRIM) in Kepong. It is a wonderful place to jog, hike or explore with the camera. The nature park is surrounded by the Bukit Lagong Forest Reserve.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f6, 1/640 sec.

Mother Nature's Christmas Tree

Rice Bowl of Selangor

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A combine harvester at work in the paddy fields of Sekinchan. The machine is so-called because it combines cutting, threshing and sieving into a single mechanical process. Located about 100 kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur, the coastal area is known as the Rice Bowl of Selangor.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f7.1, 1/640 sec.

Harvest

The Blue Hour

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In photography (and cinematography), the ‘blue hour’ is the luminous period just after sunset. The glowing sky and lingering hue is more visible to the camera than the human eye. Preceding warmer colours are part of the ‘golden hour’ while the cooler ‘blue hour’ comes after or overlaps. The specific time, duration and mixture depend on your geographical location, season and the weather.

Also known collectively as the ‘magic hour’, it is actually shorter and takes place from around 6:50pm to 7:40pm, here in Malaysia. The opposite applies to sunrise and dawn.

At 7:25 pm on the Kesas Highway, I set the camera on a mini-tripod and placed it low on the asphalt. A 1.5-second slow exposure captured the streaks from the tail-lights of a speeding truck basking under magical afterglow.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1.5 sec.

The Blue Hour