[Landscape] Flowing water…

…and rocks.

There are only these two elements in the photos here, nice and simple. Of course the water was shot in long exposure to create that blurry look. As the river is rather shallow at that area, I was basically standing in the water with my tripod set up on stones… thank goodness my camera did not get splashed or take a bath in the river, no matter how dusty it may look.

When the day became dark, so does the light available on the river.

In case you were wondering, this is just somewhere near Sungai Petani.

[Landscape] Paddy fields

At this time of the year the paddies are harvested and the fields cleared for the next season of paddy plantation. Without the usual green patch covering the wide field the exposed water surfaces bring forth another kind of scenery before our eyes: the water providing excellent reflection to the sky; people fishing for keli by the pools of water; children playing; birds flying about the fields…; and of course the farmers work on the land with their ploughs, ensuring another good harvest for the next season, and to provide us with more rice to eat.

A paddy field with Gunung Jerai overlooking it in the background.

For such a scene sunsets make good photos…

A lone tree stands in the middle of the field.

A woman fishing for keli – for such a time when one does not wish to buy fish, the easy and patient way would be to go down the field and catch some yourself. Cooked properly the keli fish is delicious.

The farmers working on the land.

 

Birds would come to the fields for hearty breakfasts by feasting on the abundant insects. I had wanted to capture photos of the long legged white birds in the fields, but they would soon fly away as I approached them… and at 200mm my lens is simply not long enough to catch them. As compensation there are swallows instead. Even then I still need to crop the photos to get what you see here.

[Landscape] Lightning

Lightning is rather hard to shoot, not least because it’s quite unpredictable in appearance, you also need patience in waiting for it to flash and get that good shot out of who knows how many hundreds of exposure.

Moving on, these few shots here were one of my early experiments and trials on shooting lightning, as seen from my condo overlooking KL. The distant lightning made good photos if you could get them.

 

Next time when I could hunt more lightning I’ll try some different composition and framing.

The Corridor

I remembered when I was small I used to hear that in KL people living in apartments or condominiums don't greet their neighbours even when they meet. Although there could be many factors leading to this, it is most probably due to the very low frequency of meeting each other in the first place, and usually people just have their front door kept shut anyway. I mean, when you walk out of your apartment door down the corridor to the lift of stairs how often do you meet people of other units? Even if you do you'd most probably just stared at each other and not utter a word...

Anyway walking down a long corridor alone, would you invoke a feeling of loneliness, or may be feel that the place is deserted? Don't get influenced by my photos here which were shot to make it look deserted or ghostly.... dark. Hahaha. These are just normal corridors from the condo I stay in.