I have a group of friends who love photowalk, an activity for photography enthusiasts to walk around Kuala Lumpur to capture interesting scenes in town. They do it almost every Saturday.
Whenever I have time, I will join them. Not just because I love photo shooting, but I enjoy their company. It's fun to have a group of friends to share same interesting stuff. We talk basically everything under the sun.
Normally, places for shooting are at Pudu, Chow Kit, Tiong Nam, Petaling Street, Bukit Bintang, Klang or Kampung Baru. Depending on the leader, normally the one that called the shot is Yeow Chin Liang, one of the leader who initial for all these walks.
In my recent photo walk at Pudu market, I really enjoy myself and took some photos to share with you here. Those photos were captured using Nikon FM, is film photography. I like using film camera because of the unique colors.
Yeow (yellow shirt) is the leader in most of the photowalk. I think is his charm that attract most people to join him.
When everyone arrived, we have breakfast first before we start our journey. This round, we went for dim sum as breakfast ... The dim sum shop is famous and looked at the crowd, won't get wrong to dine here as the crowd proof 好吃. (taste delicious)
Kelvin Ng is a big boss, but in photowalk, everyone is equal, all of us are same level. I really appreciate Kelvin who always take care of us, looked how good he was, he was taking some dim sum for everyone. He must be a good boss in his organisation... thank you Kelvin Ng.
"Hello, come come .. let eat ... don't just play with your camera ...."
After our breakfast, we started our journey. We walked toward the direction of the famous Pudu market. But along the way, we shoot anything that come into our mind or attractive to us ...
Pudu market is one of the largest wet market in Kuala Lumpur. I think only Chow Kit wet market is larger than it. Many people came all to way to Pudu market to buy stuffs ... very crowded place.
"Peace with you" a boy sit on a bike and showing his peace sign. In Malaysia, most of the rakyat are peaceful people except a small group trouble makers who always use racist remarks to gain their political advancement. Shame on them.
This store is quite funny, they built their store out from a telephone booth, I guess the phone might be spoiled, so they use part of it as table to hold their stuff ... this is not right, but in Malaysia, something like this is very common. We are long way to become a developed country, I think first we must change our mentality ... sad with this type of attitude, even longer way to reach.... sob sob !!
If you like fishes, this is the right place, you can easily get affordable fishes. I have checked out their prices of aquarium and accessories, they are cheaper compare to the one that sell in shop. You may find some good bargain here ... I felt like buying one whole set ... maybe one day....
I remember this lady as the above photo, she scolded me for taking her photo. Generally, people at the market are friendly and they don't mind us taking their photo provided we smile at them. But this one was really fear, I guess she is in bad mood ?? ... So we all ran away ..... hahahaha ....
Look at this, just a van, it turned into a store selling bags. The price of these bags ain't expensive but remember to negotiate for better price with them.
Looked how friendly they are ... happy moment can be easily get when one is not proud or fearful ... I called this human interaction moment. If we managed to capture happy moment like this, we too will become happy ... life is simplicity, isn't it ?
I also love shooting buildings in Pudu too as they remained the charm of the olden days. I have "feel" when I looked at these buildings as compare to the newly developed one, no "feel" at all.
Photowalk can be a form of exercise because we walked miles and miles away ... it is a good form of exercise as we can sweat it out. "After a hard day work", we will continue yam cha to relax a bit.
After yam char, we continue our walk for a while, then lunch and we depart ... but for sure, this is not end here. We go back to develop our film and share our result of hard work later. Later part of the day, we upload our "catch" of the day in facebook to share with one another...
Time to "like" liao ... and we continue our chats in facebook.
Hahahaha....
The end.
