That Evening

Today's, 24/06/2012. Friday evening, cloudy, overcast, hazy, moody, and caption free.

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Petronas Twin Towers, Night & Day, KLCC

Last year, 2011. These two panoramic photographs were taken for the PETT Gallery content usage. Due to official duty, I was lucky enough to capture these 2 scenes in 2 sessions respectively from Traders Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. For your info, each picture was taken in 5-7 frames vertically from left to right and combined in Adobe Photoshop. I hope you enjoy the view as much as I did.

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Note: All photographs © Demitri Boon He Yang. Please do not manipulate or misuse the pictures without permission of the copyright owner. Thank you for your cooperation.

Canon EOS 5D MKII w/ EF 17-40 f4L

Aderine & A Date With The Sunset

Here comes part 2 of the Saturday (28/07/2012) evening shoot. While it was raining heavily at Kuching, we were blessed with plenty of sunshine till the darkness. The best part of that day was, we had a moment of spectacular sunset that enhanced the shoot even more.

Special thanks to Esther for carrying the reflector and the 580 EXII this round. I hope she's okay with the assisting as she's usually the person who was posing in front of the camera.

Lucky you, Aderine. Happy viewing!!!

A Gondola Ride, Venice

For centuries gondola were the main transportation and watercraft within Venice, which is the famous city surrounded by water. Nowadays, gondolas main role is to serve as water taxi and act as an attraction for Venice tourism industry. I always imagined myself seating in a gondola whenever I saw the gondola image from pictures or from the movies, and now I finally had a ride in it with my loved ones and my fellow friends. 

How does it feel then? Well, satisfaction.

I hope you can enjoy the gondola ride "virtually" through my photos. Happy viewing!!!

It's kind of shaky, but no worries 

Venice, Italy

Well, I was feeling really grateful to be here, Venice, as it is one of my listed dream destinations. Even though we only have less than five hour to tour Venice, but I think it should be enough to fulfill my achievement. Just to let you know, this isn't the complete set of Venice, two more posts coming up soon. Please kindly stay tuned.

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Greek Trip 02/06/2012: Approaching Venice, Italy

Our final tour destination, the ever romantic Venice. We were able to wake up earlier to catch a final glimpse of the Venice waterfront from deck 12 of the cruise. Weather however was a little gloomy but I don't think it was a bad thing too, as we get to tour Venice in a more "emotional" way. The complete stories of Venice will be concluded in the next three upcoming posts.

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Windmills Of Kato Mill, Mykonos

The 5 remaining windmills are the structures that defined Mykonos famous landmark. They just look perfectly great in a row of five be it during day time against the blue sky, or even more tremendous in the sunset. However we don't have the opportunity to stay up to dusk hour so here in this post I can only present you the windmills in daylight scenery.

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Actually there were six of them, the one on the far left is already damaged

Little Venice, Mykonos

It's called Venice with a "Little" in front, only at Mykonos. The waterfront is surrounded by whitish buildings that were built during the 16th and 17th century and constructed right on the sea"s edge with their balconies overhanging the water that defined the first impression of Mykonos.

We returned to Little Venice after we visited Ano Mera, where we have plenty of time before heading back to our cruise. Since we had few hours left, we make good use of the time to walk around Little Venice, shopped around for souvenirs, admiring the scenery at the Windmills of Mykonos, and had some great Greek food, which I shall post later on.

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Ano Mera, Mykonos

Ano Mera is a village that sits on the highest land at Mykonos Island. There is an oldest monastery that was built in year 1524 and reformed in 1767. The interior of the monastery is decorated with detail mural, carved wood and silverware. 

After the visit, we were treated with another luncheon of Greek food at a restaurant next door. 

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Kalafatis Beach Special: The Waiting Dog

Just when we were about to leave the beach, I saw a man dragging his canoe to the water while his dog was hopping around him with excitement. 

Alright, the story goes on below. Happy viewing!!!

The beginning

Kalafatis Beach, Mykonos

Kalafatis Beach is one of the earliest established beach at Mykonos, but it's more famous for its water sports. For tourists like us, we didn't get much to know the premise more, all we had was just about 30 minutes of sightseeing tour. Besides enjoying the scenery of the beach, we also took the chance to grab ourselves some Greek frappe and cappuccino from Thalassa Restaurant and sip them slowly under the hot sun.

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I assumed it's 12 Euro per "seat"...

Greek Trip 30/05/12: Mykonos

My first impressions on Mykonos was, the places seems a little "flat" if compared to Santorini, which were built along the cliff of the coastal area. Mykonos doesn't have much high ground though, and the first place that we arrived was Chora Port, and along Chora port there lies "Little Venice" where the buildings were stood less than 3 meter from the seaside.

This post is covering our destinations from Chora Port to Boni's Mill, and to Agios Ioannis.

The rest of the photo-stories shall be posted soon. Happy viewing!!!

Clockwise from top left: My breakfast, tendering process, the tendering boat navigator, Ester & Noelle

Greek Trip 29/05/12: An Unforgettable Evening At Santorini

夕阳无限好，只是近黄昏。That's a Chinese proverb saying that "a setting sun is utmost beautiful, unfortunately it does not last." That's how I felt when we about to leave the beautiful Santorini while enjoying the iconic sunset on our way to get our cable car.

Well, I'll leave the rest of the stories through my photos. Hopefully I can come back here to know you more, Santorini.

Mykonos will be posted after this, stay tuned. Happy viewing!!!

Popi with some "last words"

It was Angelos' birthday, what a coincidence

Popi doing some traffic work here

Oia, Santorini

Oia (pronounced as ee-ya) is an architectural picturesque town, and famous for its unique Venetian houses which were drenched in bright white color under the blue blue sky. Along the cliff of Oia are the remaining houses that survived from a large volcanic eruption many years ago which eventually sunk the center of the island.

Oia is surrounded by the ever blue Aegean Sea and remains as one of the popular tourist attractions. Oia looks amazing under a clear blue sky, but whenever the sun is setting, it turns to a even more beautiful paradise on earth that words can hardly describe. Well, I guess we were lucky enough to "witness" the sunset of Oia just before we got back to our cruise.

However, I shall only post some sunset scene right after this album. Hope you enjoy the photographs.

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Interesting shadow

One, two, three donkeys!!!

Follow the sign

Sunrise Over Adriatic Sea, The Next Morning

I had my watch and iPhone's time parred with the local time zone the day before, so I followed the cruise' log for the next sunrise, and it turned out quite accurately where the sun rises at around 6 something in the morning. 

It was a lovely morning. Happy viewing!!!

Lonely sleepyhead in the elevator, ready for some sunrise scenes

Majestic

Playing with silhouette

Sunset Over Adriatic Sea

My first time capturing a sunset scene at sea, on board. Check out the previous post here.

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Gorgeous setting sun without any distracting subject on the foreground