Category: Photography

Up north at the end of Glebe Point Road is a park and Rozelle Bay sits in front of it. From there, one gets a full view of the sleek Anzac Bridge with its two concrete towers. Just slightly farther towards the sea, the undoubtedly more famous Harbour Bridge crosses the Sydney Harbour.

This picture looks west and clearly, taken at dusk.

I really like how the clouds hid the sun. It somehow reminds me of Metatron in Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Something ominous lurks behind the clouds.

I did some processing here to saturate the color. I typically frown at those that do some processing because I feel it a kind of cheating, especially so if they do not disclose that fact. Most of the times, processed pictures would become better but what I object about it is that without disclosure of processing, it deceives others. And then there is also something called over-processing.

But I just could not resist playing with the colors here. So, I guess that makes me a hypocrite.

In the spirit of full transparency that the Malaysian government notoriously lacks, here is the original photograph, taken purely based on, if I may say so, my non-existence photography skills.

The sky was much brighter in reality. I set my shutter speed quite fast to capture the cloud pattern. Much slower speed would have turned the picture whitish. I also tweaked my camera’s white balance so that, as an auto setting would always do I think, the photograph would not appear bluish.

And oh, it is time for me to get a new lens.