Snaps: Of the streets in Pudu

I haven’t been out on the streets lately, with the last time being the short shoot in Petaling Street, where I posted a short post on it. Read about it here; The 90 minutes tease with Olympus 25mm lens. That was a very short session, and it wasn’t enough shutter therapy then. I have been hoping to get out on the streets again, but I’ve been feeling a little bored with where I’d usually shoot at. If you shoot on the streets too, do let me know of places on the streets that I can shoot too. I would love to have a different playground and hopefully a fresh perspective too. :) 

Anyway, I am supposed to post this up about a month ago. The pictures from this post are actually from the same set as the ones from People of Pudu Market, but I decided to divide the pictures because it was easier to see the connection and the flow in the other post. The rest of the pictures are jumbled over here but they are still pretty random. Haha, but I love them enough to post them up here. So enjoy!

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These shots were taken on the way to the market, at the Pudu market and some from the streets around Pudu area. I’d like to end this post with my favourite shot of the day and the best thing, was that the picture also happened to be my first picture I took during this street shoot session.

Till next time,

xoxo

Snaps: Embracing colours.

As I am typing this, I still can’t decide on a suitable title for this post. It was shot around Petaling Street and the neighbouring streets, but about half of the pictures this time are taken in Sri Mahamariamman Temple. As I have other pictures as well, I could not just title this post as just the temple name. I have only started shooting on the streets recently, but I realised that my pictures would so often be in black and white, or almost muted colours. You can check out my other Street Photography pictures.

This time around I have decided to go for colours; brilliant, vibrant colours. It feels awesome to think that when I was shooting, I never had any particular theme in mind. But as I was post-processing the pictures, somehow I opted for colourful edits instead. :) I hope you’ll enjoy the set as much I do.

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Snaps: Olympus Malaysia’s First Street Walkabout in Pudu

Trust me to blog about things that happened more than one month ago, because I can damn well procrastinate.

About one month ago, Olympus Malaysia organized their first ever street walkabout which was lead by none other than Robin Wong. If you know or heard of Robin, then you would know how amazing and awesome his street shots are. In fact, it was only because I tagged along with his earlier street walks that I begun to enjoy street photography. Previously, I didn’t understand how to take and find subjects on the street to photograph. It still doesn’t come too naturally for me yet, but I’m getting there slowly. You can check out my other street pictures here; Street Photography.

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We started things off by walking from Pudu Plaza (the meeting point) through the streets of Pudu and then, the Pudu wet market and back again to Pudu Plaza. The pictures in the set below won't be in the order taken but rather grouped together with a common theme. 

Snaps: Chow Kit in Colours!

If you read my last post on shooting the Chow Kit Market (if you haven’t, click to read it here ; Chow Kit Market in Monochrome), I said I would upload another series of pictures from the shoot but this time in glorious colours. :) I have contemplated in uploading everything in the same post but I decided otherwise because they would be too many pictures in one post and it might bore you to go through, so two separate post it is.

Hope you liked the pictures from this set as much as I did.

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Snaps: Chow Kit Market in Monochrome

A couple of days ago, I blogged about trying Kin Kin Chilli Pan Mee for the first time ever in the Chow Kit area. (Funny thing was that although the pan mee wasn’t fantastic, I find myself craving for them now). I was around the Chow Kit area for another round of street shooting with a couple friends, it’s one of Robin’s favourite place to shoot.

As we were making our way to the pan mee shop, the skies were gloomy and I was worried it might rain. Even though, we were shooting indoors (inside the market), I know the pictures would turn out greyish, so I thought to myself, if it did rain, I would just shoot in black and white. That’s an easy way out, and shall I add lazy too?

It didn’t rain in the end after our breakfast. In fact, the sun was shinning gloriously, for which I am extremely thankful for. We managed to shoot the streets leading to the market and then at the market itself. I was told the market would be worse than the Pudu one, but honestly I still think Pudu is awful. I have yet to shoot there, but I have been there with my parents and it’s always so crowded inside there. Chow Kit is less crowded but it could have been due to the public holiday.

I had not intended to post process my pictures into black and white initially, but I did not like the colours as it was when I captured them. In most of the pictures below, I found the coloured version too distracting from what the picture was supposed to convey or feel. (I mean these are in my opinions at least.) 

I will post another set of pictures from the streets of Chow Kit in colour, look out for that other post. That is very colourful!

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Eat: TasteMIGF, Sunway Pyramid

If you haven’t heard, TasteMIGF is running only for this weekend (last day tomorrow!) at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre. MIGF simply stands for Malaysia International Gourmet Festival, which is in its 13th run already. What this event basically is, chefs from various fine dining restaurants have came together to prepare their specialty meals in a mini bite size version for the crowd to sample. You can try them by buying Taste tokens. For more information, please visit www.migf.com.

Oyster Sabayon | Samplings on the Fourteen

Muscovy Duck Breast | Tanzini Restaurant

Enoki Ham Roll | Dynasty Restaurant

Fuji Maki | Sagano Japanese Restaurant

Green Tea Noodle with Soy Sauce and Ikura | Sagano Japanese Restaurant

Wagyu Beef Cheek Rendang, Farm Vegetables Achar Jelatah, Tumeric Coconut Rice | Nook Restaurant

Smoked Scallop Umai Sushi | Nook Restaurant

Sauteed Shrimp with Spicy Tomato Sauce | Qba Restaurant

The dishes pictured above will give you can idea of the serving size and what to expect from the TasteMIGF event, most of the food that I sampled were really good. I was there as a guest, courtesy of TV Smith for the Festival Gala launch of TasteMIGF. If you’re planning to head over there tomorrow, you’ll need to purchase tokens with some of the dishes starting at RM10 per serving.

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All pictures were shot with Olympus EPL5 using Olympus 14-42mm lens, lit up using LED lighting.

Snaps: Artisan Roast, TTDI

“This place is filled with hipsters.”

“All coffee places are for hipsters.”

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For the two months I was working with a colleague, he could said Artisan Roast at least 50 times, and cheesecake (from Artisan is the best), maybe 20 times. I finally did manage to give Artisan Roast a visit, when a friend wanted to try the coffee there. I don’t do coffee, but I take tea but I didn’t feel like drinking it then. Had a Smoovie, RM10 which was a banana milkshake. Terrible awful, tasted horrible. Don’t order. Cheesecake, RM10 on the other hand was really that lovely, so it did justify my colleague’s need to have it ingrained that I must try them.

Cheesecake & Iced Latte | RM10 each

Artisan could have been a really nice place to chill and have a nice chat over a cup of coffee and lovely desserts/food they have there, except the seats there were pretty much hard wooden benches. Not the most comfy option, when you’re planning to chat for a while. Also, space were pretty tight in the shop. I get that cramped feeling while I was there. So, do come here for the coffee and food, well, pretty much just for that then. Oh, maybe for this one cute barista too.

“Can I get a picture of you, making coffee?” | :)

I was sitting in front of the counter and it’s was a pretty interesting to people watch. All sorts of people come and go; friends, men, ladies and even families. They came for coffee, some for the desserts and some had them packed.

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All pictures were shot with Olympus EPL5 using Leica 25mm at f2.8, 1/40 sec with ISO 400 to 1600.