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The Jackfruit Sisters

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I love the rural Ramadan bazaars. The traders are friendly and the food they sell are different. This is near Dusun Nanding and these are giant jackfruits, fresh from the orchards.

I like how the ladies laughed and giggled as the fruit is being cut up. Sometimes, to be a good street photographer, you have to be a jack of all trades. If you tell the right joke at the right time, it puts people at ease. But if your joke isn’t funny or is offensive, you might be staring at the business end of a knife.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f9, 1/200 sec.

The Jackfruit Sisters

Cake Shop Boys

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In tiny Kuala Klawang town, two boys wait for their father to go for basketball practice. I was speaking to their father who operates the only cake shop in town. The Raleigh bicycle in front of the shop belonged to the boys’ late grandfather.

What started as a Hainanese chicken rice shop 60 years ago, is now turned into the only cake shop in town. Mr Tan specialises in wedding cakes that somehow became popular with the local Orang Asli (aboriginal) people.

I like the natural and coincidental ‘Color Splash’ effect that is akin to the small town movie, Pleasantville. Everything else in the scene was already near colourless when I photographed it. I only had to remove a dash of red from the car tail light at the top right edge and a little rust on the drain cover.

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

Cake Shop Boys