Kuching Waterfront is a great place to take night scene photos, but I haven’t tried before, to go there at night with my camera because my parents always remind me that it is not a safe place to go at night, especially with tripod and camera bag. It’s true because many robbery cases have happened especially after 10pm. However, last week I made a first try while there were events (decorated boat parades, exhibition, etc.) held at the waterfront. The events attracted a lot of visitors and it was a good time for me to bring my camera and tripod along.

01 My safety tips: Do not go to take night photos alone, preferably a large group of friends. :~

02 Another tips: Go in the evening, right before the sun set (the earlier the safer), firstly for safety, secondly you can take the sunset photo.

03 Another tips: Wait until there is no car in front of the temple, and the picture will look cleaner. I mentioned that I don’t want to take the Light in the Night photo again until I have come out with something new, if there were cars in front of the temple, the lights from the car’s headlight doesn’t look nice in the photo.

There were many cars passing by, do you know how long have I waited? It was about 2 minutes, I waited the car in front of the traffic light to be cleared, and right before the car from the opposite side came into the frame of my picture, I quickly pressed the shutter release button. The shutter speed was quite long, so my speed must be faster than those cars.

04 Tips of taking photo of Tua Pek Kong Temple: The lights of this temple is not switched on every day. The best time to take night photo of this temple is 1st and 15th of a month in Chinese Calendar and when there is a event at waterfront like the annually regatta, Dun Openning or other functions.

Tua Pek Kong temple is the most famous temple in Kuching located in the golden triangle area just a few steps away from waterfront, therefore it is another good subject to be photographed there. Every year there is a parade organised by this temple.

I used my camera remote control with 2 second delay to take this photo of SiewPeng and me.

Right across the Tua Pek Kong Temple, there is a water-spraying structure which its shape look like the hornbill (a big bird that found in Borneo).

A very popular cafe - James Brooke Bistro and Cafe is not far away from this structure. Can you see its red-neon-light signboard behind the structure?

Personally I don’t think this water spraying structure look nice :p, but I tried my best to take nice photos of it.

The slow shutter speed setting in my camera was used to take these photo to create smooth effect.

From near to far, can you see the square man-made pond with mini waterfall, then the water spraying structure, and at the further behind TuaPekKong Temple? This is one of the entrances to WaterFront and from this angle we can see these three things here.

The reason I brought tripod was actually for taking the photos of the musical fountain near the square tower because I found that it was working already after broken for years. But when I reached the musical fountain, the lights have been switched off. I will go and check if it is working and take its photo soon.