Still A Forty-Niner


It was 30th August 2007, Merdeka Eve, and I was going home after work. I just intended to hop on the bus and not join the festivities, but as I passed by Masjid Jamek I heard a commotion and followed it for a photographic journey!


Unlike road signs, some arrows are not so clear.


I followed Alam Flora workers down to Dataran Merdeka. They had a task – to clean up the trash.


Some saturation play will follow.


Man, I need a new belt.


There was a row of bikes, old and new.


Soon I found myself deep down in the crowd!


Aha! A platform just for people with big cameras! Spot a Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan and a Sony 75-300mm F4.5-5.6 up there. Yes, more than one Alpha male there.

Despite bringing the Tamron 200-400mm F5.6 (there, my first official mention of it) I found I could not get anything interesting other than a sea of hands waving flags. Thus, the fisheye or going down to shoot kids with bright prime lenses would be a better idea.

(Okay, fine, the first shot was with this bazooka lens, too.)


An unidentified host. 330mm F5.6 1/15s.


You can’t tell from this picture, but his eyes are open. 400mm F6.3 1/15s.

I then realized I was deep in, and I wanted to get out. I found an outstream of people. However, this outstream had people cutting me and rubbing their sweat against me! So I realized that the instream was dry, and grazed against them to keep myself dry. Heh.

I got home before midnight. Great success!

10 thoughts on “Still A Forty-Niner

  1. Canon Freak Post author

    is that the moon on top of the alpha male? or a dish? OH WAIT, it’s a balloon 😛 good thing i reread the post before i embarrassed myself.

    oops. i just did : /

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  2. Albert Ng Post author

    Janice: No wayyy!!!

    Copycat. 😛

    Soraya: Interpreted differently, there is a hidden meaning that could be used in certain political slants. 😉

    Reply

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