By the Lake: A view from Lake Titiwangsa

Last weekend hubby and I was with the photography buff group of KL pinoy. It was the first official photowalk of the group held at Lake Titiwangsa. It's a small recreational park and lake north of Downtown Kuala Lumpur with good photo opportunities. It was before a home to "Eye On Malaysia" (until Aug 31st, 2008), the largest portable wheel in the world (60m high. Lake Titiwangsa can be reach thru Monorail until the last stop (Titiwangsa Station), from the station take Bus #120 or just walk for about 10 mins.

The Federal Administrative City: Putrajaya

Last weekend, friends from SG and Dubai were in town for a very short visit. We went to a sight seeing trip to Putrajaya. Putrajaya sits on a magnificent 4,931 hectares of land within the Multimedia Super Corridor. It is located 25km south of Kuala Lumpur and 20km north of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Being served by a network of highways, it is highly accessible from all parts of the country. It’s a 30 minutes drive from KL by a private car, and will take 45 minutes to 1 hour if you take bus from KL.

As we go and explore the place, I have noticed that putrajaya is a distinctive place, having a mixed of Islamic, modern classical architecture and a slight of a gothic architecture. But being a Muslim country in Asia, the Islamic architecture was very distinctive through out the place.

The bridges were also eye catching. Mostly it’s a combination of an overhead arc structure and a classical twin pylon cablestayed bridge. Its also denotes a futuristic aerodynamic bridge, which forms a gateway entrance to the federal administrative capital of Malaysia. There was also this bridge which forms the main approach to the boulevard having architectural quality with decorative artificial stones and cladding.

The traffic free city has lush greenery; botanical gardens are spread across the landscape enhanced by large bodies of water and wetlands making the area a very good site for landscape photography.

Kuala Lumpur City Center

Right after the KL Pinoy anniversary at Bangkok Connection, along Jalan Ampang, the hubby and I took a short walk at KLCC to capture its skyline. For the second time around, I’m shooting a night shot of the Petronas Twin Tower. It was April last year when I had my first shot of the twin tower while on a transit visit here in KL.

We took a cold zip at the KLCC food court to capture the view from a higher point and a wider angle but it did not work well. I was shooting right in front a clear glass curtain wall and the presence of artificial lighting inside the mall create a distracting reflection on the image. I just did a slight PP on the image to eliminate the said reflection.

With in the KLCC vicinity is Suria KLCC a shopping mall at the foot of the twin tower. The Petronas Twin Towers is now the 7th Tallest Sky Scrapper. Way back my college days it was the tallest, at present it’s the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, the Aquaria KLCC, the KLCC Park and numbers of hotel and office buildings. More about KLCC here.

Shooting on a shutter priority at 1/8 of a second, minus the must have tripod on a night photography; here are some of the shots.

November 28, 2009: One Day - A PiPho year end event

A one day access pass to the country's prime cityscapes brought to us by Ayala Land in partnership with Pinoy Photography Organization. The event was open to all Pipho members. On the spot photo contest was held with a theme: There's land, there's ayala land, and a lot of freebies and raffles...I won a tenba shoulder bag, just in time i thought of changing my bag and here comes the tenba bag for free...thank you!

I had fun shooting at ayala ave & global city, though tiring but it was a great oppurtunity to shoot on one of the heavily guarded cityscapes in manila. Thank you Pipho and ayala for a trully wonderful event.