Shakti Temple

Chanced upon this new landmark in Kuala Selangor the other day. What struck me most was the single earth tone colour used. The Shakti Hindu Temple in Bukit Rotan stood out beautifully as it basked in the warm rays of the setting sun.

While the axis of great temples are usually aligned to ancient precepts, it took 10 seconds for Photoshop CS6’s powerful “Content Aware Fill” to remove an unsightly telecommunications tower at the back.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f6.3, 1/125 sec.

Shakti Temple

Thaipusam 2013 – Part 6

It was a great sunny morning, blue skies and everything nice. The famous Olympus colours were already overflowing when out of nowhere came this pink man on hooks 🙂

This pic concludes my special 6-part coverage of this year’s Thaipusam Festival at Batu Caves. See also video of the chariot and kavadi bearers at my YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/tvsmith

Thaipusam 2013 – Part 6

 

Thaipusam 2013 – Part 5

I like how the Tamil transgender (and cross-dressing) community take part in the celebrations without facing discrimination. We can all learn from this inclusive attitude.

This is a still frame capture from OM-D’s HD video footage. I’ll post a video of the festival after editing later. Update: The video is up.

Thaipusam 2013 – Part 5