For a brief few seconds one afternoon, the new mosque in Taman Melawati became a spectacular lighthouse as the sun hides behind its minaret. I photographed it using a couple of ND filters. Sun trajectory was measured with a GPS and Sun Surveyor app
Is Hari Raya and an appropriate time to port over some of my fav mosque photos from my Twitpic gallery to Instagram.
This was captured with the Olympus OM-D camera at the mosque in Setapak town. At 7pm, I knew there’s going to be magic twilight, what with the sun so bright and a cloudless sky earlier.
The lunar eclipse last night began at around 7:30 pm and ended at about 1:30 am this morning. The dark clouds hovering over Kuala Lumpur soon gave way to the majestic alignment of sun, moon and earth.
It was an awesome sight to behold when the earth’s shadow concealed the moon completely. The moon turned reddish during the umbral phase when it was lit only by indirect sunlight. Unlike the eclipse of June 2011, this was a rare total eclipse!
Moonlight Shadow
At 9:35pm, the shadow of the earth can be seen on the face of the moon. Olympus E-PL2, ISO 200, f9, 1/20 sec
Orange-Red Moon
At 10:35pm, it was total eclipse but you can still see a faint red disc in the sky. Indirect sunlight bouncing in space gives it the copper glow. Olympus E-PL2, ISO 200, f5, 1.6 sec
All pictures photographed with the Olympus E-PL2 by & © TV Smith
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