This picture was taken at 7:25am in the morning.

The sunset time is about half and hour slower compare toKuching.  This is because East Malaysia and West Malaysia are different in longitude but they share the same time zone.

Ipoh is called “ShanCheng” in Chinese or it means “the city surrounded by mountain”.  The mountain or hill has blocked the view of sunrise actually, and when the sun is visible, it’s too bright already.

You may ask why the sky is too bright but I still take the picture with the above effect. 

There are 2 solutions for me:

1.  Take the photo before the sun is visible directly.  Although the sun is behind the mountain, the sky is in dark orange or dark red colour.

2.  When the sun comes out of the mountain and the sky is too bright,I adjusted the camera exposure to make the sky looks darker.

Yes, there are other solutions like using a lense filter or edit the photos in Photoshop.  But I prefer original photo instead of “photoshop” them.  And I can tell you that most of the photos (actually all of the photos) that I have posted were originally produced from camera and were not edited with photoshop, except with a little bit of cropping, resizing and adding of the word colinjong.com.