Sometime February 4th 2010, I went down to town.

You can see graffiti right through.

Interestingly, CIMB Bank has a red background while OCBC Bank has red text, and both have 4 letters.

Often, our eyes cross paths, but we bypass it, and an era of human contact fades away.

Ye old Kuala Lumpur KTM station.

Destination: Petronas Art Gallery at Suria KLCC, for the Sony World Photography Awards 2010.

We all scream for fisheye! Classic use of the Peleng 8mm F3.5 M42-mount circular fisheye on the full-frame Sony Alpha 900, with fisheye distortion pulled away 100% using DxO Optics Pro Elite.

And on the 22nd of June 2009 we see KJ travelling without moving.

Running down sidelit tunnels is his idea of exercise.

The way it should be.

My first time at Desa Parkcity! No that is not a picture of me. My picture-uploading is backdated, but not that backdated…

Beautiful place, beautiful sun.

Of course, it is always nice to see the young generation out in the park instead of being a mallrat.

On the other hand, there is a shopfront.

I wonder where the heck was that park that used to be in Section 16… what is there now? I remember a climbable hill with loads of red earth.

No wait, not a shopfront, The Waterfront.

And now, for a view from far, far away. A famous landmark in Jalan Ampang, shot from Ampang.

I believe some of you know where this is.

Gary Friedman, a travel photographer and writer of many books on the Sony Alpha platform, is coming to Malaysia! He is having a seminar:

What: Gary Friedman’s High-impact Photography Seminars
When: Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th March 2011, 9am to 5:30pm
Where: Sony Malaysia office, 11th Floor, Centrepoint South, The Boulevard, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Why: Because he is one of the best in explaining everything photography in the simplest, easy to remember methods, with humor, too!
How Much: RM380 at the door for 2 days

So who is Gary Friedman? He wrote this article on the Minolta Maxxum/Dynax 7:

http://photo.net/equipment/minolta/maxxum7

Thanks to this article I bought the Dynax 7 myself and uh… bought more A-mount stuff after that.

For more details, click on his seminar page:
https://friedmanarchivespress.com/seminars/malaysia/

To register, go to this page and look for his seminar (you’ll see other workshops, too!)

http://mysony.sony.com.my/MyWorkshop/WorkshopListing.aspx

And yes, I have registered myself! It is always very, very inspiring to go for workshops that teach you the art of photography.

So we see.

She sees me.

So does she.

Widely a one way.

Bird’s eye view.

In the words of Megatron – “RETREAT!”

This is Petaling Street.

Yeah, I guess they look local.

Man he must be thinking about them ‘melons.

I finally met the SLR Magic 35mm F1.7 CCTV lens for the NEX – tiny lens with magical output!

It had massive focus field curvature, causing the sides to be out of focus.

It also had vignetting which made for a very lomographic effect. Very inspiring to compose with the effect already showing on screen!

That’s it from that lens though. Here’s one from the Sony E 16mm F2.8.

And one from the Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan.

There you have it, one illiterate man.

Somewhere near the Dang Wangi LRT station.

Also nearby. I don’t quite remember how I got this.

We were there to revisit the abandoned houses along Jalan Kamunting, near Dang Wangi.

Front entrance. Inviting, eh?

This is the backyard.

A wide hallway with natural sunlight. Originally shot with the Peleng 8mm F3.5 circular fisheye, then de-fished using DxO Optics Pro Elite.

Literate folk made notes.

Another defished view.

A thing to note is that not all the houses were as abandoned as we initially thought, so beware.

More blog entries:
Dang Wang II
Dang One-Ghee