You Only Live Once - YOLO

At height of 100 meters, Putrajaya sure felt like Naboo from Star Wars Episode I

I am know for my fear of height problem - LOL. But ever since I learned the beauty of landscape and a view to catch, I will do things, ONCE!! Hahahahahaha...

Sunrise/Sunset & Everything else in between

I must admit, being a home-dad is more tiring than expected!! Having to drive everyone to their destination & picking them up with some minor jogs in between, support works & house chores really got me on my toes. I rarely have the time to edit the photos I've shot let alone uploading them. The weekdays activities gets me exhausted and my weekend activities were full with families & my bunch of crazy friends outings.

Now with this little hour I have I tried editing what I can manage before my eyes gave way - LOL.

I love going out with my friends on the weekend just to have that glance on the sunrise then have my family jog then back to sunset before I have a nice dinner with my family. Well, I hope all these photos raises up my morale level again - LOL.

KL View from Kenanga

Lee Kwang Soo Meet/Greet

Earlier this year, I brought my son & my niece to meet with Lee Kwang Soo (an actor from South Korea who gets his fame most from the reality game series of Running Man). My niece who got me into watching Running Man was so excited because not only did she get to meet with LKS but also received a signed poster by him and personally collected it from the fella. My son was just as over joyed as that was his first sort-of concert by his own without me beside him. My eyes on the other hand were not only looking down (literally) at my son & niece from the level access I gained, but also the view I had. Sadly though, I did not knew that the view was this good else I had brought along my proper gear. This was the only shot I got, handheld from my Tough-2.

Details:

ISO 1600

Panoramic on camera via Olympus Tough-2

KLCC Pond version 1

KLCC Pond version 2

Sunrise of Maulidur Rasul

On the sunrise of Maulidur Rasul (the birth of Prophet Muhammad), I went down to KLCC park with my lovely wife & a friend to glimpse on the stunning sunrise with a clear weather. The wife had her brisk walk while camwhoring on her mobile phone and while playing with some slow shutter, I had some minor exercise of my own. Though I did not like most of my shots there (guess I was still having fatigue from my daily routine - LOL), only this set came to my senses. Still I am still at confuse... LOL

Details (both photos):

ISO 100

f 10

HDR 7 Exposure

Putrajaya Lake at Dusk

Putrajaya Lake at Dusk try 2

My version of selfie

Sunset of Maulidur Rasul

As the day sets on the same day of Maulidur Rasul, my bunch of crazy friends had this plan to visit an uncharted place around the Putrajaya Lake. It was a gamble for us as the weather witch doctor (aka weather app on phone) told us that is was going to rain! Rushing to drop my wife at the only mall available there and rushing to scene, the crazy dads drove/walk/jump/hike to this nice view uncharted yet by others. To our luck, the rain did not fall but as you can see the sunset was not really at our favour as you can witness due to the heavy clouds. With that happened, it made us wait for the building lights to appear just to satisfy our shutters.

Details (sunset):

ISO 100

f 16

HDR 9 exposure

Details (selfie):

ISO 400

f 9

HDR 7 exposure

Lanterns of Gong Xi Fatt Choi (Chinese New Year)

Thean Hou Temple from below

Thean Hou main gate from above

Upper level of Thean Hou Temple

Chinese New Year's eve sunset

Gong Xi Fatt Chai

At the eve of the Chinese New Year, I grabbed my son to tag along with me and bunch of crazy friends to this beautiful temple located in PJ. After years living in PJ, this was my first visit and I must say I really missed a lot. The temple was decorated so colourful that it nearly took my eyes out when I was editing the photos - LOL.

Details (Lanterns):

ISO 400

f 9

HDR 7 Exposure

Details (from below):

ISO 400

f 9

HDR 7 Exposure

Details (main gate):

ISO 400

f 9

HDR 7 Exposure

Details (upper level):

ISO 400

f 9

HDR 7 Exposure

Details (sunset):

ISO 400

f 13

HDR 7 Exposure

Star Gazing

Upon the parking lot

Againts the green

Painting with light

Ready to launch

Star Gazing

Now this is really new to me and I must say I had real fun playing with this! With half of our crazy bunch went back to their respected home towns for the Chinese New Year holidays, the remaining crazy bunch made our way to Genting Highlands on the first night of Chinese New Year to catch stars. With a new thing to play with (catching the milky way) and the temperature going as low as 14 degrees and the winds made me lost my touch with my fingers it was sure a challenge just to stand still!! - LOL

With a clear night backing us, we were only sadden that the clouds upon Kuala Lumpur city were thick for us to catch that milky way. We tried our best but with such long exposure to play with we hit to a second location to find this lonely silo waiting for us. This made other objective to capture light trails came to a halt because were there until the sunrise (in which I still have to edit) before we headed back home with the air condition switched off all the way till we reached home!! - ROTFLOL

This was a chance for me to play around with light painting (painting scenes with my torch light - even though I was holding a LED light that had a distance of so near - LOL) to light up the areas I wanted under long exposure. I must say this is getting addictive but not having a wide angle lens proved to be as challenging.

Details (star gazing):

ISO 400

f 2.8

20 seconds

Details (parking):

ISO 400

f 2.8

20 seconds

Details (green):

for stars

ISO 400

f 2.8

20 seconds

for the city

ISO 400

f 8

62 seconds

Details (painting):

for stars

ISO 400

f 2.8

30 seconds

for the parking lot

ISO 400

f 8

209 seconds with torch light painting

for the city

ISO 400

f 8

30 seconds

Details (silo):

for stars

ISO 400

f 2.8

30 seconds

for silo

ISO 400

f 9

162 seconds with torch light painting

Signing off

Daddy Rain

09/02/2014 @ 0220

My City, My Town, My Own...

My version of selfie

With the starting of school, I've been kept to my toes that I did not had chance to edit a lot of photos. Been the busy father running up and down sending & fetching my boys. With the small one starts his schooling years, I had to adjust to his schedule!!

With the short time I have, I edited the photo above which was shot yesterday evening somewhere at Putrajaya. After dumping my love at Alamanda, I left to meet up with the crazy friends-of-fathers and we ventured to a new territory. This was one of many shots taken (guess you'll have to wait for it as I have to run to fetch the boys in a short while!! - LOL)

Details:
HDR 5 Exposure
ISO 400
f9

The first sunrise of 2014

This was the first sunrise of 2014 shot at Darul Quran, Kuala Kubhu Baru. Again my crazy friends-of-fathers hustled our way deep in the morning when everyone was coming back home from the New Year's party! Initially, we weren't allowed to enter but after "selling" the name of a person who worked there, we managed to slip in and shot this. The person himself came later on & we became friends. Ahhhh... crazy bunch of fathers sure know their ways!! - LOL

Details:
HDR 7 Exposure
ISO 100
f14


Signing off
Daddy Rain
15/01/2014 @ 1545

The Clock Tower

The Pullman Clock Tower

The last of the fireworks competition held at Putrajaya sure made us gangs of fathers rushing through our schedule and the rush hour traffic home. But we still managed through. Being old baggy folks, too much walking wasn't really an option for us - LOL.

Team Dubai - Putrajaya International Fireworks Competition

Dubai was the last team to showcase their fireworks. Quite a troublesome for me because it was not held during a weekend but on a Wednesday night. All in I still had fun with my bunch of bandits of friends who made a little havoc during the lift off towards Putrajaya. Well we're well-known for this - LOL.

Team Dubai at its best

Putrajya International Fireworks Competition - Team USA

Here's the collection after this lazy bum got up till it needs more sleep!!
LOL

All in sequence of the shots fired... Well as much as my CF card permits on its s..l..o..w.. readings - LOL

Putrajaya Fireworks Competition 2013 - Team USA

Teaser... One of the 1st shot

Just came back outing with some friends... well about 4 hours ago that is (ha ha ha) from Putrajaya. They were holding a fireworks competition for a few weekends from the night of our Independence Day, 31st August.