Went to Lookout Point yesterday evening after work, even though the weather wasn’t promising. The rain has just stopped when we were about to leave office.

So, as expected, the type of sunset view that we would have imagined, wasn’t there. It was just too misty. At times, the KL Tower and Petronas Twin Towers were totally covered by mist. Being able to get the above picture was lucky enough :p

The roof of Bread & Olives Restaurant at Lookout Point.

Some photo kakis all geared with their photography gears.

Due to the discouraging view, I decided to temporarily “sao gong“, headed for our dinner at a western food restaurant there, known as Bread and Olives.

When we’re done with our dinner, wohohohoho…. the view was totally clear from mist. We had a clear night view of the Kuala Lumpur skyline.

Zoomed in to the Petronas Twin Towers.

The Twin Towers rendered blur by manipulating manual focus.

A Place for Night View, Not Food

My only comment for Lookout Point is, it’s undoubtedly a place for a very wide angle of Kuala Lumpur skyline, but probably not a place for food I have only went to Bread & Olives, so not fair to generalize the statement. However, generally, comments on food places there are quite negative.

I couldn’t accept the fact that Bread & Olives doesn’t accept credit card. Ya we were asked to pay in cash. Wah lao.. if a guy brings a girl there for first date, and thinking it should be possible to depend on credit card, that would be damn bloody embarassing. Couldn’t find any ATM machine at hill-top too.

Last weekend when our country was celebrating the 51st National Day, my friend Loh has officially declared formation of his family, with his wife Eiein.

Wedding event is always a good opportunity to learn photography. Even though tiring, but the experience and new skills that you will gain from the 1-day hands-on session couldn’t be easily compared to other events.

You will learn to anticipate and expect what will happen next, what are the moments to shoot, when to use flash, and where you should stand to secure a more strategic position.

Eiein is a Malaccan, but she was using a triple storey house in Happy Garden for her wedding. Out of my expectation, there was a lot a lot people in her house, rendered the shooting situation tough. Most of the time, I lifted my camera above my head and shoot haha, ‘cos I couldn’t secure the front-line position.

There was a friend of Loh, using Olympus DSLR attached with flash gun, looks pro. So ok la.. even if I couldn’t get good shots for Loh and Eiein also doesn’t matter haha, no pressure

These are some pics to share. You may browse the complete album by thumbnail or slideshow at Flickr.

Citroen Xsara Picasso as wedding car

The room furnished for this wedding

Groom and his brothers

Loh preparing his “weapons” - ang pow Continue reading ‘Wedding Photography on Loh and Eiein’s Big Day’

It was drizzling, and Hui Lee noticed the orangey “yolk” outside the window. As I have my camera with me, so I went to the roof-top, and got this picture. Wai Pei “shot” this scene too, but with her eyes and memory.

Beautiful sunset is always such a short moment.

The Malaysia International Fireworks Competition (MIFC) is back again. On the recent Wednesday, I went to shoot for the fireworks display by Canadian team with some of my The Third Eye kakis.

That was the the third session of this year. Final will be held on next Friday, 29 Aug.

Same like last year, even though the fireworks were fired from Putrajaya Seri Gemilang Bridge, but we were not shooting from Putrajaya. But instead, we went to one of the most strategic spots - Cyberjaya Perdana Lakeview.

Before our photography outing, it started raining in PJ and Cyberjaya at around 5pm. This has caught some of our kakis worrying about the possibility for fireworks photography. However, as always, being the optimistic me, I was quite confident that the the rain would not distrupt us. There was still 4 hours before the fireworks display le!

And luckily, luck was on our side. After rain, the lakeside was cooling, very comfortable for our outing.

Quite Disappointing Fireworks Performance by Team Canada

Last year, I attended the MIFC for final, presented by Japanese team. That was a great fireworks performance, with many different fireworks formations presented. This time, the performance by Canadian team was quite disappointing.

There was very little variety in the formations of fireworks. All look similar from beginning till the end. Until the middle of the session, most of us were bored, and I stopped shooting, just left my finger standing-by on the shutter.

By the way, for this photography session, I wasn’t using my own camera hahahah. Itchy hand, borrowed Canon 450D from Wai Pei.

This cutie is my cousin. She is very sensitive to camera lens, and she likes to pose. When I pointed my camera at her, she given me this “tomato-eating” pose hehe… Repeatedly a few times, she given me this pose until I told her that I’ve got the shot.