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[1659] Of I won! Yeah!

I just have to brag:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings from Malaysian Nature Society!

Last March, in conjunction with RWW 2008, MNS, in partnership with Nikon and CLICK! Magazine played host to the Wildframe Competition in which participation was indeed encouraging! Out of the 100 entries, the top three for each category, have been selected by our distinguished panel of judges. Hence, we would like to congratulate the following winners:

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1st Prize – Choo Chi Yen
2nd Prize – Sanjitpaal Singh
3rd Prize – Hafiz Noor Shams

I never had the confidence to say I am good at photography. Now, I can say, I am that good.

Whoa. Watch out ladies, a big head is on the move! Haha. I can not wait until somebody pops up my balloon.

Concerning the competition, I do not remember what I won but I hope I would get another digital camera. Since Nikon is the sponsor of the competition, it should be a CoolPix model. I would like a new digicam because my Fuji has become unreliable lately for some reason. There is something wrong with the transmission of power. Sometimes, it does not switch on when I switch it on.

Do not get me wrong. Despite that, I love my Fuji and it has been faithful to me ever since I was a freshman at Michigan.

Anyway, I do find having a digital point and shoot camera extremely handy. As I have learned, DSLR and point and shoot camera are not really a substitute to each other. There are times for each type: DSLR is good when you are out there determined to get good pictures in a challenging environment; a digicam is just for “oh, that is interesting” and you just want a picture and not really a Pulitzer Prize-worthy piece.

I used to bring my camera every I go when I was in school at Michigan. I want to do that again but a DSLR is just too bulky for that purpose.

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Events Photography

[1658] Of 1.45GB worth of Vesak Day shots

What was a planned hit and run became an escort mission today on Vesak Day.

I dropped by the famed Buddhist Mahavihara temple at Brickfields today and wow, opportunities for great shots were abound. I just could not get enough and I ended up with 1.45GB worth of shots within the span of 6 hours. In other words, over 700 photos!

That must be a record for me.

Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams.

And when the procession began, I followed it almost all the way till the end. It began at Brickfields and then, I found myself passing by the Old Railway Station, the Sultan Abdul Samad Building, Jalan Raja Laut and then Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman and then back at Dataran Merdeka before going back to Brickfields. I bailed out at the Dataran.

And just to give you an idea of how many people were there:

Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams.

I was near the front of the procession and as the head of the procession was returning to Dataran Merdeka, I spotted the tail just leaving the Dataran to take the route which I had taken earlier. It was that long! Crazy!

And a child claimed to be the reincarnated Prince Siddharta was there too. At first, he walked together with the monks but about halfway through, he opted to sit behind a pickup truck together with other children. And boy, he was the center of attraction!

Anyway, okay, my legs are done. I am logging off but more pictures will be available at Metblogs KL later this week.

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Photography

[1654] Of what is a catholic?

If an alcoholic is addicted to alcohol, a chocoholic is addicted to chocolate and a workaholic is a work addict, would a catholic be addicted to cats?

Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams.

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[1652] Of heya kitty!

I ambushed a cat on a lazy Saturday afternoon. Peekaboo!

Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams

I am unsure what to make of her expression. The stare seems blank, but it is a stare nonetheless.

It is probably annoyance. All she wanted was a nap but there I was, snapping and clicking.

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Photography

[1644] Of somewhere on Leboh Ampang

Yes, this is a filler.

Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams.

Sometimes, I am surprised to see how this kind of arrangement is still aplenty in Kuala Lumpur. The vendor conducted his business within the long corridor of a typical tropical colonial shophouse row in this part of the world. Not much separated the vendor from the street: only a pavement possibly a meter wide.

This particular street is called Leboh Ampang. It is the Little India of the city (or is that supposed to be Masjid India?). It is usually busy but on that Saturday, one could lie down in the middle of the street and be certain of his safety, much like Kuala Kangsar in the middle of the night, much like Ann Arbor during the evenings of summer. Okay, that is an exaggeration but it is certainly true for Kuala Kangsar!

I wish I had more time to play around with the settings of my camera but I was in the mood of just snapping around as friends were walking lazily in a Saturday afternoon for an Indian lunch. I had to keep up with them.

Wait a minutes, this is not Metblogs KL! Wrong blog!

Ah, the peril of having more than one blog…