Cue the most iconic instrumental theme from a western ever; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Not all cowboys get to ride into the sunset, though. Some get hanged. The noose is actually a broadband fibre optic cable coiled up on a pole. Quite a common site in residential areas. Photographed this from the car during a traffic jam near the Taman Bahagia LRT station.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1/3200 sec.
I was driving near Kampung Sungai Serai this afternoon when I saw the sun behind a mosque. Got down, walked around until the sun, the moon and the star aligned perfectly.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f14, 1/4000 sec with Hoya ND filter.
The South-East-Asian region is choked in smoke originating from illegal forest fires and large-scale agricultural burning in Indonesia. An annual affair, the transboundary air pollution is causing health and social-economic problems for affected countries.
With the haze, I was able to photograph the sun directly without using a ND filter. A neutral density filter is a glass filter that cuts down the light, enabling a lower shutter speed or wider aperture. The thick haze acts as one.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1/1250 sec.
