A statue built for the Facebook and Instagram crowd.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 250, f4, 1/640 sec.
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Party Like It’s 1641
A trishaw pedals through the streets of the historical city of Malacca. Almost everything is like what it was some 400 years ago. The signature red buildings of the then Dutch administrators and the narrow roads, all evoking a romantic throwback to its glorious past.
I said almost everything because the tricycles now have AC power sockets at the back, in case tourists need to charge their camera phones. It is also used to power guady neon lights and a noisy boom box.
The Malay/Indonesian word of becha (now spelled as beca) originated from the Fujian (Hokkien) word “Beh Chia” meaning horse-drawn carriage.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 250, f3.5, 1/400 sec with Snapseed Grunge Filter.
Alan Smithee
I was filming Japanese actress and model Ayumi in front of a shuttered shop door. An aggressive stranger and spectator at the back was directing us with shouts of “Closer!”, “Bigger Smile!”, “More To The Center!”. Quite distracting but that is the nature of shooting in the streets. So after getting the shots, we confronted him and asked him what his problem was.
Cornered, he turned out to be a soft-spoken, meek and nice guy :-). He works in the ikan bilis (sun-dried anchovies) shop opposite and was bored out of his skull since it was his day off.
In the movie business, the pseudonym “Alan Smithee”, was used when crediting a film director anonymously. Usually, is because the director disowned it after completion or abandoned it halfway due to disatisfaction, creative differences or quarrel with the studio.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f4, 1/80 sec.
