Construction

Where there used to be a shanty town next to the condominium where we live, there is now construction, construction and more construction. The 2 low-cost apartments are now completed, which you see here as a night shot when they were still in construction over a year ago. Now there are 2 mid-range condominiums being built, and the open spaces are diminishing. Good? Bad? Lot's of dust and noise for sure!


Tech spex: Tight detail crop from 5x4 sheet on Fuji Provia 100F
Graflex Super Graphic, Kodak Ektar 127mm f/4.7

Malaysia Reaffirms 2nd Fiddle Participation

Some time ago, I wrote with a little contempt at how it would seem that despite Malaysia's grand intentions to make it's mark in the world and create it's own share of world-class companies and Malaysians, they seem to be spending most of their energy not in originating, but in copying when I wrote about the new upcoming Central Park development. However, they decided that they wouldn't stop there. If there was a London Eye, then there must also be a KL Eye! For the moment click here to be taken to a series of photos taken by my cousin Kit, as I have none of my own yet.

KLCC with Movements and Colour!

For awhile, I was quite convinced that I liked the monochrome version, but now that I've been looking at it, it like the colours too. It was taken in the setting sun, so that's where the orangey glow on the houses comes from, but the clouds have a nice blue to them (unlike yesterday and today which has been sunny but still grey and non-descript throughout).

KLCC with Movements

It's been quite some time since I've posted a shot of the Petronas Twin Towers and the KL Tower, so here's one I shot over a year ago with the Graflex Super Graphic on 5x4 inch Fuji Provia 100F sheet film, converted to black & white. Actually, I can't remember what movements I used to achieve this, but suffice to say, it was definitely optical (using lens tilt) and not digital postprocessing.

Fish Eye Malacca

Finally rearranged the study desk to allow more convenient use of the film scanner, so here's a shot from Malacca taken with the Lomo FishEye 2 camera.

A phlog entry with no photo

Here's a phlog entry with no photo, which effectively makes this a pure blog (in my books anyway). Recently, I've been shooting a lot more medium format photos on film, even getting through 4 rolls and a bit in the 3 weeks we were in Spain, Luxembourg, Germany then back to Spain during the Christmas holidays. However, I've fallen terribly behind in getting my 120 films scanned as a consequence of what started out as a brilliant plan.

The idea was to position the scanner permanently on the shelves behind me, with a very long Firewire cable snaking back to the Mac. Shelves in place, everything organised, scanner in position, power cords carefully tucked out of sight... and I spend few fruitless weeks afterwards discovering that apparently... you can't get a Firewire cable several meters long. :( Well, I shall triumph somehow.

Ameera in the Rain

With the showroom now completed for the Ameera Residences, construction of the condo itself has begun, continuing through the rain too apparently. The rain this afternoon was very heavy, and we watched while they unloaded those huge concrete blocks that will eventually form the heavy base for a construction crane. (You can't really tell from such a reduced photo, but it was raining really heavily while they were working...)


Tech spex: Fuji S2 Pro, Tamron SP 24-135 Aspherical IF Macro, ISO 1600, 1/60s, f/5.6 @ 135mm
Shot handheld and it was quite sharp too!

Pasar Pagi

In Malaysia, it's more customary to have this sort of market at night, the pasar malam, owing to excessive heat during daylight hours in Malaysia, making night time more conducive to people coming out for a stroll to visit the market. In Spain on the other hand, they do it in the morning, every Thursday in the case of this town. Different places, same thing, same reason. Here though, it seems far more social than it does in Malaysia.

Vespa, Spain

Not much to say, but I spotted this Vespa parked outside this yellow ochre coloured building, and I thought it made a pretty picture.

Rate of Consumption

Holy smokes, check out how quickly this leg of ham is being consumed. Pretty fast considering that for half this time, Rosa and I have been away, leaving just Rosa's parents at home. All that cured ham in just 8 days!