Swee Ching Photography

Unfortunately, I did not have many worthy shots of the Eiffel Tower during my short time in Paris. Other than those taken from outside of my hotel (posted here ), below are the remaining shots that I like to share. To commemorate France presidency of EU, the Eiffel Tower was lit up with in blue, and special twinkling light starts-off from 8pm onwards every hour into the night. Pictured here is my wife taking a shot of the lighting with our Fujifilm F11. If you like to see more photos that I've taken at Paris, click here for all my previous posts related to Paris.

Continuing from my last post on Paris , here some shots of the Arc de Triomphe , located at the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris. It was drizzling that evening and it was difficult to get the shot shown above (setting up tripod, having people looking at you, wiping rain droplets off the lens etc). Still, those element gave a bit more drama to the shot, especially where cars had their head light on due to low light situation. Pedestrian underpass is available to reach the center of the arch. While I was setting up my tripod, the French police stopped me from doing so, said the tripod might damage the floor. Floor is made of stone, while my tripod legs have rubber tip... Anyway, not wanting any trouble with the police, I put down my backpack, rest my camera on the bag and took the shot above. Finally, the arch was lit for the night. Got better colour with this shot, done without tripod. As with most historical monuments here in Paris, the arch has plenty of intricate desig

I can't recall when was the last time I visited Pulau Ketam (Crab Island). I guess it could be about 15 years ago. So it was my curiosity of how much would Pulau Ketam had changed that I agreed to Jeff's invitation to go for this 1/2 day trip (these 1/2 day trips is turning into a de-facto standard trip length for our impromptu photo trips). With reference to www.pulauketam.com, Pulau Ketam used to be an inhabited island full of mangrove swamp, where fishermen travelled back and forth from the mainland to catch crabs, prawns and fishes. Eventually they started to build houses on stilts and slowly the population grows to today's 6-7 thousand. To reach the island, we took a 40-minute speed boat ride from Port Klang (KTM Komuter Pelabuhan Klang station). These fishing boats are located at the river near the main jetty. I can see plenty of mud crabs mud skippers at the river banks. Seems to me the residents of Pulau Ketam goes around with bicycle or motorized bicycle. I didn&#