A dilapidated but occupied old building in Chinatown KL. Watercolour filter was applied. The tragedy about our old heritage buildings is that they are either left in disrepair or the windows are replaced with mismatched aluminium framed black tinted glass. Sigh.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f9, 1/250 sec.
I ran into a nice bunch of teens visiting the landmark Stadium Merdeka. One of them had a dSLR. As I stopped to observe, another boy climbed up the gate. Thought he was going to pose with a peace sign (V-sign). He did. Then without warning, he flipped and somersaulted across the roof. This is a stacked double exposure of that moment I photographed from the car.
Asked them later where they were from and the shy and polite kids said they are from a school in Puchong. They rode a motorcycle to town to sightsee. I am not sure if this is safer than street racing though.
Other Moral Of The Story: For street photography, keep your camera in continuous low burst mode instead of single. Or 4 fps in the case of the OM-D. Its high burst of 9 frames per second mode is even better but it can shorten the camera’s shutter life if used indiscriminately.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1/400 sec.
I was exploring the little enclave of Kampung Attap when I saw several murals and patches of wall art signed Black Fryday. Turned out to be the work of Malaysian street artist Kenji Chai. (http://www.kenjichai.com/). According to him, there’s a fine line between street art and vandalism. Still, I like how the unsanctioned murals and graffiti add life to the ghost town atmosphere there.
