A visit to Highlands

Awaiting sunrise

This year on somewhere a week after the Chinese New Year, my crazy bunch of friends climb up Genting Highlands, Pahang again. For 2 years in a row now I've been visiting this place and I must say it is a must for next year...

Chasing the sun @ Masjid Uniten

Blue Hour

Golden Hour

The crazy bunch of friends of fathers (geng bapak²) had an ad-hoc meeting to run to UNITEN (University Tenaga Nasional) at Bangi one day. Met up at a petrol kiosk and drove like mad men to chase the sun. Most of us were more into experimenting that day and these were my results.

Seeing the sun rise is a miracle one must always respect!
However, I wasn't really fond of my golden hour. Guess I wasn't having the mood during edit - what say you?

Details:

HDR 5 Exposure
1st photo - 
Manual HDR
ISO 800
f9

2nd photo - 
Bracketed HDR
ISO 100
f22

Panoramic Version with someone entered the frame - LOL

Details:
HDR 5 exposure
2 photos stitched
ISO 100
f22


Signing off
Daddy Rain
26/12/2013 @ 1301

Edited 26/12/2013 @ 1840

Balik Kampung !! / Journey going back hometown !!

Coming back home

While trying to spot another scene on this le old road journey back to the wife's home town in Taiping, Perak; I noticed these teenagers on motorcycle with their large bags on their back. Clearly they were returning home from a long journey. This really reminded me during my college years when the festive season came (mainly Hari Raya - the day which ended the 1 month of fasting) and we were all going on long holidays. Everyone packed their belongings as much as possible, as neatly as possible, as economical as possible into one large bag with newly bought clothes, gadgets & the dirty 1-month-due-to-wash clothes; all to be proudly shown during the festive season (minus the dirty clothes which actually begged to be home wash for the fresh home soap wash smell - LOL). Everyone was so excited that books & studies never come across one's head but instead the faces of loved ones, family reunions and the taste of home cooked food. It sure packed a very enjoyable story for each every soul with especially the face on parents faces the moment you reach the door step (and also that special friend too!).

Padi field - The Malaysian & Asian diet

Do you eat rice??

Another pitstop from le old road towards Taiping, Perak. This time around with perfect clouds I stopped at a padi field. Padi which produces rice is one of the biggest diet in Asia where in my country Malaysia is a large part of our diet. Yup, we have rice at nearly every part of our meal.

Choose your road to your destiny

Which will be your road?

This le old road to Taiping, Perak surely makes a shutter addict like me on a non-stop pitstops by the road side just to get a view of this!! - LOL.

Loneliness

Lonely road, Lonely hearts, Lonely mind

Been away again for a while. Lots had happened only leaving me lonely everywhere. But on every dark cloud, there is always a silver lining. I only have my thanks to the Almighty that showed me the path, that gave me strength and I don't want to bore people with it. So lets go on with this picture's story...

In the ruins

Finding life in the ruins

This was another stop during our road trip using the old road going back to the wife's hometown. Seeing a land with a lot of dying trees made me stop on this uneven road. Looking for a spot to stop the car was even more challenging than placing that tripod for a setup. This part of the road was really "hip-hop" but with all the green scenery we saw and then this, that small voice inside me just told me to stop. Quite sad though to see this because I wondered when didn't they make use of the chopped trees for something at least. Well time will tell...

Finding life in the decay

I went in nearer to even seeing more decay even the stream was very bad seen. I thought I could see any signs of life but on some small trees were coming. I remember a car was honking at me giving support that made me wonder what was he supporting at "me shooting at his place" or (please not be) "reporting this to the press". What ever it was, it was still a nice spot to stop.