To my friends from vihara who went to Penang last month.  Can you guess where have I taken this picture?  I am sure you know the answer.  I missed it this year.  I hope that I can go there next year.  This picture was taken in 2007.  I believe you guys had a wonderful and unforgettable time there while purifying your mind and sharpen your thoughts there.  This window was lonely but not on the last month.  I wonder if it still looks the same this year.

Windows are great subjects for photography.  I saw many photographers taking the pictures of windows especially with the old building.  Beside doors, gates, roof etc, windows is one of the main features for a building.  There are many types of windows, with different type of glass / wood attached to them.  The curtains sometimes make it even colourful.  No matter how it looks like, good looking or ugly, big or small, clean, dusty or rusty, all of them can become pictures through the lenses of cameras as long as you have story to tell about the windows.  This is not the best photo of windows, but thit place is the best place to achieve ultimate happiness.

Human need fashion, buildings need fashion too.  Windows are building’s fashion.  … … And I believe most of you while reading this blog you are also facing a window named Microsoft. :p

While we were in Ipoh last week, we went to a park somewhere near where we stayed.  We found this romantic bird couple enjoying their time with each other happily.  We were touched by their romantic moments therefore we took the opportunity to capture this lovely shot.

They were sharing a tender kiss.

They didn’t seem to mind being observed and their photos being taken.  What does love mean in the world of birds?

Do you notice anything special in the picture above?  This picture was taken when I was on board the aeroplane the other day.  As you might have observed, there is cloud and land.  But take a closer look, there are some black spots and they are actually the shadow of the cloud!

Nature is always a good painter.  With the shape of the cloud, you can use your imagination to guess what it looks like.  Here I consider it as a small umbrella.  From the view above the sky, the cloud helped to cover part of the land to prevent the direct burn from the sun.  While the cloud was moving, the land take turn to share the shade because the shade was limited. 

If the shade is too big, and caused few hours losing the direct sunlight, some human on that area will thought it is a cloudy day and no direct sunlight for them to dry their cloth, while some will enjoy the weather because the day is cooler especially in the tropical countries.

I like smaller pieces of cloud.  First, it is not too cloudy and would not be too dark on the land.  Second, it has less potential to have a rain.

The shape of the shadow is identical as the shape of the cloud even it is in the ocean.

Another thing that I have noticed, the cloud is preventing itself from going out of the boundary between land and the sea.  The cloud has not enough place to stay above the land, therefore part of the cloud were forced to stay above the ocean no matter if they are willing or not.

Please correct me if I am wrong, from what I have learned from Geography in the early day: - The wind always exists at the coast.  During day time, the direction of the wind is blowing towards the land, therefore the cloud has been carried by the wind and sent inward to the land.  There was not much cloud in the middle of the ocean.

If I tell you the angle of the shadow is exactly 90 degrees vertically down the cloud, can you tell me what is the time when the photo was taken?  In the older days, the ancient China clocks were just made of a needle and a plate marked with the time and placing it under the sun.  Based on the shadow of the needle on the plate, they know what was the time. 

The sun shines on us everyday and reflects our shadows on the ground but we never thought of it as something peculiar.  It is something so normal.  As our interest, we help you rediscover the nature elements where they may be the most common things but sometimes being ignored.  Let’s regain our awareness about our surroundings and of course ourselves.  We need to discover ourselves too, otherwise the part that we ignore would become our surrounding as well.