It Never Rains In Southern Ampang

It never rains In Southern Ampang. It pours, man, it pours… Without fail, it will rain every year, throughout the nine-day Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Ampang. Rain is good for photography. Dark skies, fire, smoke present dramatic subjects for the lens.

When you shoot giant joss sticks, try to include a human figure so that the viewer can get a sense of scale or size. Similarly, see how I included spectators together with the stilt walkers in the previous pic.

Title inspired by one of my favourite Albert Hammond songs.

It Never Rains In Southern Ampang

Catch Somewhere

Some of my angling friends told me the wife or girlfriend will huff and puff if they even mention the word fishing. So I guess this is a very rare scene. I hope there is no catch somewhere 🙂

Captured this while driving by Titiwangsa Lake Gardens today. There was some fishing competition going on in the heavy rain.

Catch Somewhere

Gotham City

The world’s former tallest buildings, the Petronas Twin Towers were partially shrouded by clouds last night. I tuned the camera’s white balance towards blue and it ended up looking like a scene from the fictional and stylised Gotham City.

A bright prime lens allows an impromptu night shot like this without a tripod. Of course, the Olympus OM-D’s 5-axis image stabilisation was working its magic too. The PanaLeica Summilux lens is extremely sharp even wide open at f1.4.

Gotham City