Other than chasing for morning flight, I would almost definitely wake up after 7:30 in the morning during these days. It was really a fruitful day for waking up at 6 in the morning that day.
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The landscape of Penang’s south west region changed drastically over the decades. Developers sway away to Bayan Lepas over the last decade from the capital city, Georgetown, as there’s very little space left for development.
Bayan Lepas looks decent in overall as it’s relatively a new town with modern city planning applied to it.
In the center of the panoramic photo (as marked in the map below), it is the island’s largest sports complex known as PISA (Penang International Sports Arena). Behind it, it is the new D’Plaza which is yet to accepts its occupants. On the left of D’Plaza, it is the tallest building around the area, SUNTECH.
In the background, that’s the shoreline in the mainland.Between the island and mainland, it is the Jerejak island.
We can see piling works being carried out on the right of the photo for the new Penang second bridge which is scheduled to be completed in May 2012.
On how this image is captured: This shot is taken up the hill somewhere along the route connecting Balik Pulau and Relau. The weather is quite hazy and blurry so I resorted to use exposure bracketing to capture the most details and to process them later on.
The Peninsula Hong Kong (Chinese: 半島酒店) opened in 1928 is Hong Kong’s first hotel and is also one of the most internationally recognizable hotels in Hong Kong.[1] It is located at the junction of Nathan Road and Salisbury Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Founded by members of the Kadoorie family, the hotel today is part of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels group headed by Sir Michael Kadoorie, and it is the flagship property of the The Peninsula Hotels group. The Peninsula has been voted as the world’s best hotel on a couple of occasions, and is widely regarded as one of the legendary properties. (Quoted from Wikipedia)
Originally blogged at hugolim.com
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One of the many tea plantation fields in Cameron Highlands, Boh Tea Plantation field offers breath-taking view of its tea field.
Technical Note:
This piece of work is composed from over 12 exposures combined together. 3 exposures are taken at each frame to develop HDR image and they are stitched together as one panoramic photo in the end. Camera is mounted on tripod and leveled properly before shooting begins.
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