SnapIt!! (10 May 2014 - Tg Rhu Riverside & Chinatown)

Same as before, my weekends are shooting time. Last week, we visited Tanjung Rhu riverside for sunrise and hopefully great panorama shot. The place was very far, and we need to change train a few times. Leaving us much lesser time to shoot before the sun is out. This weekend, we tried again. Yes, still no luck. We will be back there some other time when sunrise is around 7.15am.

Anyway, we reached the location about 6:35am. Get to the location and set up my gear, we were ready to shoot about 6:45am. There was still time before the sun is out, but the sky was quite bright. Technically we could not move to other location once we were there. Yes, I could not get what I wanted to shoot. :((

After sun was up, we move around to explore other good spots. As I was walking, I kept looking back at the sun. Then I stopped at this particular location and enjoyed the view of the sun. It was so uplifting. It brought energy to this exhausted body from work. I set my tripod to frame the scene perfectly as I wanted it to be. This type of shot can be easily taken handheld. Here's the shot. Enjoy!!

Uplifting

We found different good spots and will be back some other times.

In the afternoon, we decided to head to Chinatown to shoot the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. I always wanted to shoot this temple long time ago. I was waiting for the right time. As Vesak day will be coming in 2 more days, we decided to check it out if there would be anything special there. And yes, we made the right decision. The weather was right, the timing was right. We reached the location at about 6:15pm. We have plenty of time exploring the area and preparing for the shot.

We initially planned to shoot the temple from the HDB house next to it. We went to the 10th floor and realised that it was too high. So we decided to move to level 9. We shot a series of photo and experimenting with different angle. I have chosen the following one for 2 reasons. Less distracting elements and dramatic view. I have not upload this to my Flickr account. So, Enjoy!! 

Buddha Tooth Relic (Blue Hour)

As the sky getting dark, we decided to leave. When we exited the first floor lift, I had a clear view of the temple and the pavement's curve leading my view towards the temple. I saw a big patch of white cloud in the sky. It was lit by the moon light. I set up my tripod, adjusting my position and camera setting. The next thing I saw from my camera's LCD screen was WOW!! I was excited and we took few shots before too many people came to the area. Here's the shot. Enjoy!!

Buddha Tooth Relic