Sunday, February 27, 2011

Cameron Highlands


Cameron Highlands is situated at Pahang of Malaysia. It is a good place for those who would like to have a deep breath after a long stress working at City. The perfect activities you could enjoy at Cameron Highlands is having steamboat with cold weather, tasting coffee or tea at Tea House, playing golf or enjoy sunrise at Telecom Malaysia.

In this tropical country, It is really hard to get a place like Cameron Highlands for fresh air and fresh foods. You
just need to spend a little RM and you could obtain fresh and nice vegetables, fruits, honey and flowers.

The below is my photographs taken during my visit at Cameron Highlands Village.


Garden

village

market

potatoes

hunter?

Old Jeep

Resident in Cameron Highlands






kindergarten


a poor girl waiting for someone





village



chimney




相机: Canon EOS 1V & Fuji Zoomdate & Leica M6
菲林:Kodak GB200 & Fuji 400 & Fuji S200 & Konica Monochrome VX400

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Thaipusam 2011

Thaipusam is a day of penance and thanksgiving for Hindus. It falls on the 10th day of the month of Thai in the Hindu Almanac. Devotees will do fasting and abstinence for a certain period of time before Thaipusam. Some devotees will follow strictly a vegetarian diet and sleep on the floor for months to get prepared for the day. On that day, devotees will offer Murugan fruits and yellow or orange flowers and also adorn dresses of the same colour. Most devotees bear milk, water, fruits and floral tributes on pails then hung from a yoke and carry them on their head to various Murugan temples.

Vehicle of Lord Murugan

This wooden or bamboo structure called 'Kavadi' is covered with cloth and decorated with feathers of peacock.

crowded with Hindus

milk, water & fruit

filling milk into the pot





praying

busy taking photograph


Joe McNally

He is an American photographer and has been shooting for the National Geographic Society.

ritual cleansing





carry a pail of milk



pot filled with milk

Body Piercing






hooks for piercing


fruits

pierce cheek and body

carrying Kavadi




Kavadi covered with cloth and feathers of peacock.



Drumming and Chanting



Devotees spear their tongue and cheek with long and shiny steel rod and pierce their chest and back with hooks.

Devotees



shaving in action

prayers

ritual cleansing at a stream
















road full of people

one family

picnic?




相机: Canon EOS 1V & Fuji Zoomdate
菲林:Fuji 800, Fuji 400 & Fuji S200
镜头: Canon 50mm usm f1.4 & 100mm f2.8L Macro IS USM