2012
Here’s another shot of the beach at Pekan Teluk Bahang, Penang, Malaysia. If you take a look at my other photo of Pekan Teluk Bahang, you can see these two boats behind the buoy flags of the boat in the foreground. It’s no so obvious that it’s raining in this image.
I still have vague memories of the day I took off to ride around the island. I took off in an anti-clockwise direction from Georgetown staying as much as possible to the coastal road through Tanjong Bungah (don’t know what Tanjong means but Bungah means ‘flowers’) and Batu Feringgi (which translates as ‘Foreigner’s Rock’) before pitching up an Pekan Teluk Bahang (Teluk Bahang means ‘Bay of the Heat Wave’, no idea what Pekan means or if google maps is even correct).
Do you remember that scene in Slumdog Millionaire when the boys are hustling at the Taj Mahal? When I looked at the scan below as it came off my scanner earlier this year, that was the scene that flashed into my mind. Except this photo was taken in August 1989 outside a temple in Penang, Malaysia.
I usually feel somewhat unsettled taking photos in religious spaces, always concerned I’m interrupting an worshiper event though I’m not particularly religious myself. Many houses of worship don’t allow tripods to be used and on this trip I wasn’t carrying one anyway, so this is a hand-held shot in low light so I’m pleased with the way it turned out given the film was Fujichrome 100.
I just love the look on the face of the guy in the middle. While the two singers are dueting away, he’s giving me this sideways why-are-you-pointing-your-camera-at-me look!
One of the acts at this Penang street variety show was performed by a group including several dancers holding candles. This is my favorite shot from that sequence. Given it was hand-held and shot on 100 ISO film, I’m very happy with this result.