Photographer's Night at Petronas Twin Tours
- By Jane Henninger
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- 11 Jul, 2023
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I came, I saw, It WON!
| By Donald Henninger July 12, 2023
My Best Result In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a very compact and urbanized area, I was challenged to find an open vista to capture the Petronas Twin Towers. While walking to a restaurant near the AC Hotel by Marriot in the Titiwangsa District at the edge of the city, we were surprised with an almost open and direct line of sight view of the Twin Towers at the end of the rain-washed street. The image captures well the tightly packed feel of the city while revealing a grand view of the city's most famous building For those camera bugs read on, all others skip to the next section. I was using my newest camera, a Nikon z6ii with my 24-70/f4 S lens with the following settings:
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The Night Tour
| Previously on July 5th, we had taken a night visit to the Petronas Twin Towers’ viewing areas. I had high hopes of taking lighted night skylines of the surrounding buildings from a superior, elevated location. I was disappointed with my plans for several reasons. The main one was Petronas’ massive exterior lights, which set the towers aglow at night, reflecting off the metal and glass sides. This causes glare on almost all glass surfaces, which prevents taking photographs of the surrounding sights. Additionally, the glass on the inside becomes a mirror for the lighted displays in the various viewing rooms, into which we were taken. My best locations were limited severely to small corners where the metal framing created small shadow blocks through which I could shoot. Even here, the near sea-level elevations, in the tropics, in the “cool” of the evening created high humidity haze which would refract the exterior lights and obscure the backgrounds. |
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Details
In this image, the KL National Radio Tower peeks around the second tower.
My best results from the Petronas Towers’ viewing areas were detailed shots of the adjacent tower with some of the nearby skyscrapers in the background. To get these, I had to find those small, shadowed areas described above.
A composite of several encounters in our first 6 months of this yearlong adventure.
Therefore, we are changing out postings to almost exclusively show photographic images with short captions while seeking to post more days to make up for our almost 2 month backlog.
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I had bought a birthday card for him that I actually knew where it was and had it for the trip, but it was about camping and it was supposed to be when were in New Zealand or Australia. I bought it a good year before the trip. At least I had a card for him.
Today we are taking a Thai cooking class at a farm where they grow some of the produce. We are going to a market before to learn what the local products are. Don loves taking pictures at markets so this will be a good start to his day.
After our now standard noodle breakfast, we engaged a local taxi driver to take us outside the ancient city walls with their protective moat to both Wat Umong, the Tunnel Temple, and Wat Sri Suphan, the Silver Temple. After breakfast there were two other Wats I wanted to see. One was the silver wat and the other was outside the old city in caves on the outskirts of Chiang Mai. We got a cab to take us to the cave one and had him wait so he could take us to the one in town.
We cleaned up after playing with the elephants in the river and went to check out several local Buddhist Temples of interest.
On the way back to the hotel yesterday, July 20th, we had discovered Wat Inthakhin Sadue Muang almost in the middle of the street, but Don had been too tired to appreciate it and he did not take any pictures, then.
