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Old Seremban

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What do you do when you arrive at a half-deserted small town on a hazy afternoon? You look for compositional elements to liven up your picture.

The yellow box says “No Waiting” but as a photographer you can afford to wait a little. Do not point your camera immediately when you arrive at a location. Walk around and survey with your eyes, not your viewfinder. I saw the lines from across the street and imagined the final capture in my mind.

Charming Seremban town seems to be stuck in a time warp with little new development happening.  Most of the action is now at the newer Seremban 2 and 3, I was told. Sepia toning and vignetting was added to enhance the old world charm.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f10, 1/200 sec.

Old Seremban Town

Carefree Highway

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The under-utilised LEKAS Expressway near the Mantin mountains. In the age of digital filters, the physical glass filters are also under-utilised. There are still some things that can only be achieved by placing a specific optical filter over the lens.

On this sunny day-journey today, the Circular Polariser enabled easier shooting through the windscreen. When rotated to the correct position (angle), it lessens reflections of the glass and darkens / deepens the colours of the sky.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f8, 1/200 sec with Hoya Cir-PL.

Carefree Highway

Wichita Lineman

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A long telephone line connected by poles that lean in different directions. Alongside, is an undulating road with pools of water that turned out to be mirages. Wichita Lineman was playing on the radio and I felt like a storm chaser in rural Kansas. But I was driving from Jelebu to Segamat via the lonesome Keratong Road that tarverses three states.

At 7pm, there was blazing sunset on one side and blistering rain on the other. It was the golden hour, nevertheless. I stopped by the side, set the camera on the ground and used a 5-second exposure to turn the intermittent traffic into molten lava. The drops of water are splashes from the vehicles flying by.

“I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road. Searchin’ in the sun for another overload…”

Wichita Lineman