A tourist traveling alone uses a wireless remote control near Dataran Merdeka to photograph herself. If your camera has gridlines in the viewfinder, always leave it on. With the superimposed lines, I was able to quickly and precisely level the flag, lining up the horizontal lines without having to fix any leveling error later. Slight corner vignetting was applied with Snapseed to give it some ‘depth’.
Fresh off the oven, the eve of National Day fireworks at KLCC Park just now. Happy Merdeka 2012!
I was up at the lighthouse on Malawati Hill in Kuala Selangor. It was near Merdeka and a colony of resident Silvered Leaf Monkeys were playing with the many flags there. I waited patiently and this guy came along and struck a poignant pose. There were insane calls then to cull the monkeys as they were intruding into our habitat. Actually, it is their habitat all along. Humans are the intruders. This was to become my favourite Merdeka picture, out of the thousands I have photographed. Happy Merdeka!
