With Eid coming up, many Muslim Malays are taking the initiative to lighten up their home compound. My family is no exception – they’re placing traditional Malay lamps at the edges of our compound. Pretty but I rather not have them. To me, it’s a waste of energy and serves no practical purpose.
Not to mention, unnecessary release of carbon dioxide too. And climate change and the sky is falling. Run!
Still, I can only object but its my parents’ money and they may choose however they want to spend it.
I like the blurring of the background but I somewhat had hoped that the whole lamp would have been sharper.p/s – pyramid in Bosnia? (via)
pp/s – Greenpeace fined for reef damage. Oh, the irony.
p3/s – by spaghetti monster in the sky’s name, this DDOI’s is indescribable. No word can do justice to this picture. Any word uttered to even praise this photo will be an understatement. Even more remarkable, the photo was taken from a moving platform. Impressed? I know I am.
This kind of photo is why DDOI is my favorite – numero uno – right since the beginning of the photoblog.
6 replies on “[647] Of traditional Malay lamp”
Here I go again with photo tips. :P Photography is my hobby and I can’t help it.
Anyway, I like the composition of your picture but I think the background is not blurred out enough. Also, the shadow part of the plant in the background is too dark and competing with the black lamp. I did attempt to play around with your photo in photoshop and the result is a better picture. I can send you the touch up as well as a description of what I did with it if you like. Send me an email at wucanrou at google mail.
As for the DDOI, it’s a surprise to see a picture taken with a Canon 350D to have a slightly fake colors (the orange color of the pumpkins). I think he photoshop it to enhance the orange color to bring out the color of the pumpkin as well as horizon. The rest of the colors are quite accurate to that region though. Apart from that, I think it’s a great shot especially when it’s taken from a moving car.
I split out Hari Raya Aidilfitri because it was a whole section (quite big, too; rivalling the section on the US celebration of Eid), and I figured it needs some expansion. Besides, each culture has its own celebration of Eid. And Hari Raya generally refers to both Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha (though it’s usually the former), so if we decide to merge it, it’ll have to be a disambiguation page instead of a redirect.
To Cypher: I read econ.
John, I donno but I think Hari Raya and Hari Raya Aidilfitri would suffer redirection/merging to Eid ul-Fitr.
Happy Hari Raya, _earth. To celebrate, I’ve created articles for Hari Raya, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, DeepaRaya and Kongsi Raya at Wikipedia. Btw, that DDOI picture is incredible. If I didn’t know it was a real photograph, I would’ve sworn it was computer generated, because it’s so perfect.
By the way, whatcha studying at uni?
Hey man, so you’re Malay? When I saw that pic of yourself, I thoght you were a Chinese :P
Anyway… Selamat Hari Raya to you then!