The moon and the stars

The big dipper

A panorama of the beautiful heavens

i took the shots with manual exposure 30 seconds shutter speed, ISO 100, f3.5 (depending on zoom rate) with a sturdy tripod...

Chowrasta Market

yummy...

One of the nearby residents buying vegetables to cook up a splendid  and scrumptious meal later on.

An old housewife marketing.  

This is one of the best undiscovered Wan Tan Mee stalls in penang.  Where else can you still get such mouth-watering Wan Tan Mees for only RM2 in Penang? Furthermore, the portions given for such price is reasonable " One Ton Mee"

Time for breakfast after a hard morning for this curry mee seller.

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The view of KOMTAR from Chowrasta Market.

Chowrasta market is a place with plenty of history.  The moral on the wall tells the  history of the market.

Well..its the end of the morning for this guy...close shop ...

Fresh fish brought in everyday from the local fishermen fishing in Penang.

Close- up shots

Water Droplets

Some of the best shots I could get before the battery died....

macro and close-up frenzy

A mud skipper with a bokeh background

Took this using 90mm 1:1 macro lens...

High- speed photography

somebody is gonna get hurt real bad

just sit back and relax

Venus Transit

The transit of venus across the sun takes place when the planet venus passes directly between the sun and the Earth, becoming visible against the solar disk, appearing as a black dot.  The transit of venus in the year 2012 lasted for 6 hours and 40 minutes.  Even though Venus has a diameter 3 times bigger than the moon but it appears smaller and travels more slowly across the face of the Sun, due to it being further away from the Earth.  This would be a once in a life event for us as the next transit of Venus would be a astounding 105 years later, that would be the year 2117. 

I woke up and first saw the news on CNN, having forgotten all about it, it suddenly dawned on me that as I was watching TV, the transit is still happening!  I reached for my 600D with its 55-250 lens and took some pictures of the sun.  Apparently luck was on my side, since I did not have a eclipse shades, the clouds served as a natural filter.  

Unfortunately after a few shots, heavy rain clouds came racing in from the distant horizon and it started to rain...until eventually the transit was over.  

Anyways, here are the shots I managed to get. :)

These two shots taken with 1/4000 f32...ISO100