Ricky Skywalker

Welcome to Malacca ! We made a day trip in one car down to Malacca. The weather was sunny but hot and humid. We went there for sightseeing, good food and photography as well ! Yeah....

We went straight to the big boat and explored around.

After the visit to the boat, we headed to visit A-Famosa. On the way to the fort, i encountered beautiful flowers and took a shot of them.

Hari Raya holidays has arrived and it was long holidays in Malaysia. Raya holidays is the Malay festival celebrated every year here. I went back to my hometown in Raub Pahang. There was nothing much to do over there but just to relax my mind and body. Luckily i brought my camera to shoot whatever that comes.

These soft toys were played by babies in my hometown. Since there was nothing much i can do there, i took these soft toys and arranged them for photo shooting from a certain angle.

Then he wakes up from his hammock bed feeling refreshing with his big cute eyes. He is only a couple of months old and is not afraid of people around him.

The sun was about to come out from the hills. This shot was taken early morning. I lived on the higher ground level which was why i could take this photography of the hills and skies.

The weather was perfect sunny with clear blue sky on that day. I have taken my own time to unwind during the holidays before going back to the city and back to work again.

Broga hill is a famous place for hiking, jogging and photography. Not many people know about this place well. If you are not sure what and where is broga, search in wikipedia. Broga is located on the border of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia about 50 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur and approximately 33 kilometres from Seremban (capital of Negeri Sembilan).

Four of us decided to depart early morning to watch the sunrise but unfortunetly it was drizzling at our place called Sunway. Crossing our fingers, we prayed that the rain would not fall once we reached Broga Hill.

This is the entry to Broga Hill. At the base of the hill, you will encounter lots of oil palms trees.
We started hiking up the hill. There are pathways for people to walk up and along the way, you will see tall bushes.

There were 4 peaks of hills. We firstly hike up to the first peak of Broga. You really need a good stamina and good shoes to walk up. The pathway gets slippery when it rains. Remember to bring a walking stick when you hike up to prevent yourself rolling down the steep hill. To those who have height phobia, do not climb up unless you feel curious to do so.
The view at the top is absolutely fantastic ! I would say it is worth to hike up and camp up there for the night. You will feel the calmness of the surroundings and the winds blowing at your face.
The green grasses are nice and relaxing to the eyes. It's like being in the countryside. People at the top of the hill will be singing their countryside songs, photo shooting and relaxing on the rocks.
This shot was taken from the first peak of the hill. I think the second and third peaks of the hills are much higher from the first one because me and my friends did not manage to hike up the rest of the peaks as the weather turned bad.

We decided to walk down the hill since the weather turned cloudy and drizzling. It was not the best day we had and we will be back to conquer all the 4 peaks of Broga next time. As we reached the base of the hill, i spotted this green MyVi car which matched the oil palm trees colour. Haha !

We were so hungry at that time and immediately drove to Kajang town for its famous delicious satays! You will find various types of satays like fish satays, chicken satays, beef satays, duck satays, mutton satays and the list goes on. The best part of this trip was the food and not so much of the hiking activity!

Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival (KLPF) is once back again to town. It was held in Midvalley Exhibition Centre. I got to know this through a website www.photomalaysia.com . This website keeps us informed of the latest news on photography and events that will happen around Malaysia. One of the events held during the KLPF which attracted me was the Miss Chinese Cosmos photography contest organized by Canon Malaysia.

I was excited and at the same time felt nervous taking part in this competition. Many professional photographers, either Canon or Nikon camera users had already prepared their cameras to shoot.

The show begun at 11am and the contestants started their walking parade. The ladies would just do cat walking while the photographers would be pressing their shuttle to get their best shooting of the beautiful ladies. With my fine tuning of my own camera, i wasted no time to shoot every single beautiful ladies on stage.

Phiew ! I was glad that i managed to take some good shots of them. Once the show ended, i decided to take a walk around the exhibition hall. Surprisingly, i noticed a group of photographers gathered at a small area surrounding a girl. I was curious and went towards to the crowd. My jaws dropped and immediately took out my camera to shoot.

Indeed, it was a great experience to capture such event especially the pretty girls there. I wonder how much the Tamron girls are paid to work as a promoter.