Penang Botanical Gardens, Photoshoot

Penang Botanical Gardens, also know as Monkey Gardens or Waterfall Gardens........ Just enjoying phototaking

Cannon Ball Tree Image Name DSCF4232, F 3.5, 1/70 sec Iso 200

Bandstand Image Name 4202, F 3.5 1/150 ISO 64 Garden Landscape Image Name DSCF 4228, F 3.5 1/110 sec ISO 64

Monkey in the tree. Image Name DSCF 4617, F 3.5 1/160 sec ISO 800

Monkey (Close up) Image Name DSCF 4617, F3.5 1/140, ISO 400 Monkey on Branch Image Name DSCF 4216, F 3.5 1/80 sec ISO 800

Flowers Image Name DSCF 4156, F3.5 1/60 sec, ISO 400

Cannon Ball Tree Flower

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Flower Image Name DSCF 4192, F3.5 , 1/240 sec , ISO 200

Flower Image Name DSCF 4186, F 4.5 1/200 sec Iso 64

Flower Image Name DSCF 4185 , F4 , 1/180 sec , Iso 64

Cannon Ball tree flower (close up) Image name DSCF 4178, F 3.5, 1/150 sec , Iso 200.

Zoom or No Zoom?

Photo of Monkeys taken at the Penang Botanical Garden. . Would you prefer the top picture (closeup) or the bottom Picture.? .

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When taken photograph, you have to make this choice some times, the whole object or partial object, each have their pro and cons, some ppl will like it, some ppl would not like it. With digital you can do both. ;-)

Mushrooms

Its some time from my last post, work commitments is the excuse, however today I came across some interesting item to photograph that is not work related so i can post it on this blog. Its Mushrooms that I saw while walking in the field this cloudy day. And in this age is a unusual sight for most people leaving in urban areas.

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Photos from the Beach

There was this “Café” at the Beach (Lacking a better word) that utelise handy craft to create this shells curtain. Nice. Shells Curtain,

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Just a instant before I snap the photo, a Ball came out of no where, and the result is the ball seems to bounce off that pile of sand. Bouncing Beach Ball

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Couple strolling on the beach, with the back ground of Pulau Tikus (Rat Island) Stroll at Beach

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Same boat at a earlier post just that I frame it differently to create a lonely feeling. Sunken Boat

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Night Photos,

I love to take night photos, even though they are very technically demanding, and its hard to get it just right those days with Manual SLR camera, as you only know the result when you develope the flim. Now a day automatic camara takes the fun out of night photography.

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Evening Sky

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The Fuji S5700/S700, does have the manual controls, though shuttle speed is max out to just 4 seconds, so I have to play around with the ISO settings to get a brighter effect.

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Hotel room block at nite

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The Fuji does take decent night photo. Just don’t forget to use a tripod, During a recent wedding invitation at a nearby resort, I had the opportunity to take a few night photos.

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Fountain at Night

(Due to the long shuttle speed, one can see the "water" effects of the fountain, which is visible due to the reflected light. This photo is taken just before sunset with some light visible in the sky.)

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Now I am aiming to take photo at a few spots in Penang around the seaside like Gurney Drive, Esplanade and Queensbay Mall for night photo’s .

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Spot lite up trees

Day at the Beach!

While waiting for my car to be service. I took a walk to the beach, via the Public Access pathway next to Crown Prince Hotel at Tanjung Bungah. In my Private Opinion, this stretch of beach is better then those at Batu Ferringi. I did not stay long as servicing my car only took one hour. and it took me a leisurely 15min walk one way from the Car Doctor.

A Sunken Fishing Boat left abandoned in a pond of water, at Tanjung Bungah Beach, I frame the shot with fishing boats floating in the Sea.

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Kayak to Rat Island(Pulau Tikus), Tanjung Bungah, Penang

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Tanjung Bungah, Floating Mosque at Low Tide, Penang. I choose not to go for a close up of the Mosque only, but to include fishing boat's as to emphasise the location of the mosque is on a beach / on the sea.

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Tips: With a Digital Camera, take as many shots as you like, in fact make sure if possible that the memory card is full, as you do not have to develop or print out the photo's taken (you only waste batteries), when you go home and download, then only start to delete photos you do not like or want. When taking photo's you may not realise you have misout details, like in the above shot of the Floating mosque. I have only one photo, with the Mosque tower intact (barely), my other 20+ photos were all wasted as i could not "see" the tower as it blended in with the apartment behind, which i only realise when i downloaded and view the photo on my laptop.

Concrete Leaf Impression

A Tree leaf was place on top of wet concrete and when the concrete dried, you have a tile with a impression on it. Cute.

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A walk in to the Forest

This Photo is taken at Bukit Panchor State Park / Hutan Lipor Bukit Panchor Penang, at the Walkway at the wetland area of the Park, A intreasting Place to go to if you like nature. To find out more you can visit my tourism web site here or at the side bar (@ Penang & Malaysia)

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Calm Lake

Photo Taken of a Golf Course in Penang

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Wild Grass

Do not limit your self when it comes to Photography, even the most common object can be turn in to a interesting subject. .

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Bamboo Grove

This photo of the Bamboo Grove is taken just outside the Bukit Panchor State Park. Details of the park is here.

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Roots

A tree at Bukit Panchor State Park, (link) I was there exploring the lower part of the State Park, and say this. . .

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Rain Storm

Rain Storm, The Fury of Nature, Photo is practically a Black and White. . .

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In the Sun

Bonzai Tree, on top of a vase, sun lit.

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Flag Bird

I was lucky, but not lucky enough, 20 secounds from the time the Kingfisher Landed to Take Off, Optical Zoom was at Maximum, Plus Digital Zoom at 3.5, Total of 35 Times Zoom to Frame this photo, The Digital zoom resulted in a pixated photo. That is why Photpgraphy is 90% Luck, 9% Equiptment, 1% Skill.

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The Flowers Series 1 – A Walk in the Neighborhood

The Flowers Series 1

A Walk in the Neighborhood

A Set of 12 Flowers Photo, commonly found in Malaysia

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Knowing some thing and seeing something is different, I know of the Flowers beauty, but till the time I took the above photo's, I only now realise the true meaning of the Flowers Beauty, that we take for granted in Malaysia, There are flowers every where.

Viewing the Flowers on the Computer monitor is one thing, printing them out can bring out another dimension, due the the lighting conditions some of the photos yielded special effect when printed out at the neighbourhood photoshop.