Rain, traffic jams, it's an excuse to stop somewhere and take pictures. I was at a shopping mall and there was a really nice raintree flowering next to a staircase. I managed to use the height to get some nice angles that wouldn't be possible without it.
Raintress have nice delicate pink flowers. I feel like I should have used a smaller apeture and gotten more of it in focus.
Raintrees always have a bunch of ferns growing on them. It looks very tropical to have this kind of spread.
An older part of town known for its wet market and electronics shops. I stopped by in between work to take some photos of religious buildings and shrines.
It's the year of the tiger soon. And every year these strange uncredited Disney inpired decorations show up of the year's animal. The market was empty by the evening.
A small shrine tucked away in the market.
Spiral incense being burnt outside a temple. These things always remind me of National Geographic and backpackers photographing 'Asia'.
A roof of a Taoist temple. I like the googly eyed fish.
A signboard outside a church.
A modernist mosque minaret.
A small shrine to Buddha, looks very Indochinese.
Outside a Siamese Buddhist temple.
Above a dystopian triple elavated road, IKEA rises like a dark god.
There's a lot of vegetation in Kuala Lumpur. It's like nature is trying to swallow the city.
Some wild plants growing out of a building.
The road leads down to a small patch of rainforest. A wild fig arcs out of a building.
Behind an alley, a wall of green reaches out.
A verdant shady sidewalk.
Went for a short walk after some flood relief activities. The water didn't reach this part of town. Quite a few nice buildings nestled between indiscriminate high rises. Shooting with my manual 25mm, so there's less fast action scenes.
The small building with the red rood is an old club house for Sultans and the elite. It's dwarfed by newer contructions. I had to crop this because I accidentally had my finger in the frame.
A charming shophouse. I really like the lettering.
Late last week I visited the administrative capital of Putrajaya. Since there were huge lakes I decided to try to take landscape photos with my telephoto lens.
It looks like a Jaccarunda tree was flowering on a hill. I missed the focus on this, but it doesn't look too bad at lower resolutions.
One of the mosques was under mantainance, so a lot of scaffolding around the dome. I like this look more than a shiny unobstructed dome. It shows the scale of these things in human terms.
An upclose detail shot.
I saw this scene in my rearview mirror, so I got out of my car to take it.
Was waiting for something to get done. When I got my camera out to kill time it started pouring. I managed to get a few shots while trapped at some shoplots, but only one of them was worthwhile
Between two white cars there was this couple tending to their hawker stall, dressed in white. The roof behind them cast a nice dark shadow that was a nice backdrop to for the heavy rain coming down around them. It was a nice frame.
After a long time struggling with a manual lens, I decided to take it easy and use my kit lens on downtown Kuala Lumpur. A lot less thinking and fiddling with my camera. A lot more photo taking. The results look more "street photography" than my previous attempts.
Crossed the Gombak River again, the hills beyond the horizon always look very inviting.
This public toilet is gorgeous. 10/10.
Reflecting pool and some flowers.
More reflections.
This building looks so evil against the cloudy sky. Incidentally it houses a bank.
Underworld.
Temple roof.
This was a short project where I decided on a theme and tried to work to the strengths of my lens. Only close focus on smaller nearby subjects. I tried to capture the feeling of the aftermath of a tropical thunderstorm that hit KL in the afternoon. My kit was really minimalistic, the 25mm f1.2 7artisans on my Fujifilm X-A2.
First time I went on a long distance holiday since the pandemic started. Did a walkabout in the old city of Georgetown, taking terrible street photographs. There were plenty of duds, but here are the good ones. Also I'm experimenting with my workflow and photo editing software.
Some older temples can get really grey, almost monochrome. I took this as an architectural shot of the whole building, but it looked so much better when I just cropped to this scene. There were some minor color edits to remove some of the yellows in the scene.
An out of business vegetarian shop with some trees growing out of it. Edited the colors so the greens were more pronounced.
Probably my best photo, best subject matter.
It's not Georgetown if there aren't shots of colonial style buildings.
J A D E C A B B A G E.
Frangipanni tree in a church courtyard.
Temple roofs sure are cool.
The touristy part of town.
Candy color indian temple. Some edits to the colors to get this effect.
I had some free time in the morning before a meeting, so I went and took some photos around the city centre of Kuala Lumpur. I tried to avoid that cliche shot of the twin towers.
Wanted to get a shot of Kuala Lumpur's iconic Twin Towers, but I tried to juxtapose it with a foreground element as well. This concrete relief of a tratidional Malay wood carving design is part of an arch in a village next to the city centre. The food there is awesome. I like how colorless this shot was.
Crossing the pedestrian bridge over the Gombak River, I took a shot framed between the steel structures. The reflection of the morning sun did a good job of hiding the polluted water. A really moody and urban scene.
A shot of the twin towers that combines signage and a detail shot. Another one where I'm quite happy with how the lack of colours turned out. It was a pleasant morning walk through the city centre.
In between work I stopped for dinner near some suburban shop lots. I was experimenting with cooler white balance, which is why there is a green hue to the photos.
As I walked along an alley I spotted some starlings coming in to roost for the night. Managed to get a shot of one as it flew above me.
The Burger King was mostly empty, a sign of the pandemic. I like empty fast food joints, it has a nostalgic melancholy to it. I tried to capture that and the play between warm interior and cool exterior.
There was a traffic jam on the highway, so I took the back roads and stopped by the Sungai Way New Village and took some photos. Beats being stuck in a jam. New villages have an interesting history, they were basically concentration camps where poor rural ethnic Chinese were interned during the Malayan Emergency. The Brits had a quiant way of naming these things. But that's all in the past now. It's still pretty poor area, but it's now right in the middle of the urban sprawl that is Kuala Lumpur.
I'm experimenting with getting a more filmic quality and less vibrant colors.
A rather new signboard in the village. It has the name written in 4 languages. I cropped out the Tamil on the left to get a better composition.
The space between some of the shoplots looks like this. Paved with cement and concrete. Reminds me of other Chinese majority areas.
A mural of a Chinese Opera singer. Some small shrines are in the foreground. There are quite a lot of relatively recent murals here.
A now useless parking meter. The blue light of an overcast evening dulled the yellowish tinge that my lens sometimes gets. I like how the desatuarated yellow turned out.
A signboard for a photo shop offering fast film developing. I wonder if they are still in business.
Restaurant workers at the opposite end of a dark corridor.
A weird little patriotic display. I think that thing is supposed to be a cow. As I took this I wondered how the villagers could be so forgiving of this country. I would have borne a grudge beyond death if it was me.