Continued with the Third Part of Street Shots along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. By the way these photos were shot on 8.8.2012
Hope you enjoy the photos. Comments and brickbats are welcomed 
Shopping for headscarf
Looking for baju melayu?
Inundated by colourful cloth
Newspaper vendor
The famous Jalan TAR kebab
One of many arcades along Jalan TAR
The amils are ready to collect fitrah at Masjid India
Eid and Independance day mood everywhere
Continued from my series of street shots along the famous Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman.
I suddenly remember Elliot Erwitt once said “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things in words.”
(Actually it is to justify my laziness to write hahaha)
Hope you enjoy the pictures!
At the headscarf & shawl shop
At the headscarf and shawl shop
In the rows of Raya clothes
Trying on Raya dress
A young customer after trying on the brand new scarf (She is actually my fourth child cum my free model)
Wish you Ramadan kareem and happy street shooting!
As the title suggests I wish to share some street shots that I have managed to capture along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman including Jalan Masjid India and its surroundings during Ramadhan. Watch this space
On the phone
A stall selling headscarves – one of the hot items sought after by muslim lady customers in anticipating the upcoming Eid festival.
Entertaining customers
Busy arranging merchandise
The shopkeeper is busy arranging her newly-arrived stock in anticipation of unusually high number of customers during this festive season.
Spoilt for choice
This lady is spoilt for choice as she seems so engrossed in choosing the right brooch for herself.
Feedbacks and brickbats are welcomed. Do enjoy the pictures.
Do read the reflections entitled Living in Colors written by Mohiuddin Ahmed Ranju on my picture, On A Rainy Day in Light and Composition Magazine here.
On A Rainy Day
I am delighted to post and share some street shots that I captured recently. Lately I have been inspired by many street shooters. A bunch of immensely talented and highly respectable street shooters in In-Public website inspired me big time. They as if unanimously show and communicate what street shooting is all about.
Many thanks also to Thomas Leuthard who generously came up with not one but so far two free e-books on street shooting and enlightened us on what street shooting is about from his point of view. Keep inspiring guys!
For you, dear readers, I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed capturing them.
Take care and photos!
Floral stairs and floral dress
A watchmaker repairing a watch
At a newsstand in Lebuh Ampang
A chit-chat with an old friend
It's raining
Waiting for a train
Making garlands
Rushing home
A busker tunes his guitar before starting his performance
A bookworm
A florist arranges the fresh flowers
A trader carries his merchandise - shoes - from the warehouse to his stall in Kuala Lumpur Chinatown
Palm reading at Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur Chinatown
A chit-chat between two friends
A florist adjusts her fresh flowers on display
Selling mobile phone accessories
Is this real?
Shopping frenzy
Lady chicken traders at Kuala Besut Wet Market
Traditional Indian barber
Especially for street photography aficionados and street photographer wannabes, I am pleased to announce that Thomas Leuthard at 85mm is so generous to produce and publish not only one but so far two e-books dedicated to street photography and let us download them for FREE. The books contain, inter alia, his experience in street photography, tips and tricks on how to approach people in street photography and more importantly his superb street shots taken from many parts of the cities worldwide. Thomas Leuthard is a Swiss photographer who has committed his life to only street photography and he has become who’s who among modern street photographers.
Feel free to download two of his ebooks on street photography entitiled Going Candid and Collecting Souls from his website here for your reading and viewing pleasure.
Happy reading.
Going Candid
Collecting Souls
Yesterday while walking to the Masjid Jamek LRT station to go home from my office I was trying to find an interesting scene or things to shoot. I have been itching to take pictures for some time but didn’t have opportunity to do so due to work commitment and weather! Yes weather for the past week was not so favourable but I fervently hope that it would turn out to be fine and flattering next week to let us shoot hot air balloons next week
So since I brought the camera yesterday and I could escape early from the office I strolled around the Jalan Masjid India area and Masjid Jamek LRT station before taking the LRT. I suddenly stumbled on a stall selling a lot of imitation branded sunglasses. I was thinking I might be able to bag one or two pictures from this stall. The sunglasses seemed to form an interesting pattern. So I photographed these two enterprising gentlemen who were manning the stall.
Entertaining customers
Right after shooting at this angle I walked to the other side and I noticed there was a big mirror hanging overhead for the customers to look at themselves while trying on the sunglasses.
One of the customers is trying on the sunglasses
Without further delay I clicked away upon seeing a lady trying on a couple of sunglasses and looked at herself in the mirror. I knew I have bagged a decent picture. It also reminded me of a picture by ex-National Geographic photographer, Steve Raymer in his coffee table book entitled Living Faith.
Finally before boarding the LRT I captured the hustle and bustle at the LRT station. People were rushing to go home perhaps in anticipation of the school holiday next week. Parents would normally take a long leave during school holiday.
Rush hour
Happy street shooting
As I have told you before I tend to like street shooting more nowadays and I admit it is fun. This new year I hope I can be more active doing street shooting and ultimately find my own “decisive moment”. Street shooting is more convenient. You need not travel far and chase the light just because want to shoot the most glorious sunrise or sunset at a scenic spot or you need not risk your life or limbs to capture the potential award-winning photojournalism shot a la Steve McCurry or James Nachtwey. Street shooting is just about everyday lifestyle and activities of your local people or the people that you visit not to forget your strife to capture it at the most interesting peak moment which is defined by Henri Cartier-Bresson as the “decisive moment”. In short the ultimate aim is to shoot candid and freeze the action at its peak moment.
I consider myself new in street photography although I have enjoyed viewing those by legends in street shooting such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Elliot Erwitt, as well as many others by the established names in street shooting.
I am glad to share a couple of my street shots of 2011.
Shopping for artificial jewellery
Adjusting the headscarf
Shopping for books
Selling mobile phone accessories
Silhouettes and poster
Waiting for a ride
Taking a break
The husband-and-wife owners of Kudu Nasi Kandar Restaurant, one of the finest nasi kandar in town, are taking break in front of their retaurant.
Which is real?
Choosing sunglasses
Hope you enjoy my street shots.
Happy new year!
I did street shooting at Jalan Masjid India yesterday. As usual Jalan Masjid India is full of activities during Ramadhan as people are shopping for clothes, food and stuffs in prepraring for Eid Festival which will be celebrated in less than 2 weeks from now.
There are traders and vendors of varieties of stuffs that cater to many different types of customers. This is a very suitable place for street shooting training ground I suppose.
I did the shooting after office hour since my office is located in Jalan Raja Laut which is within a walking distance to Jalan Masjid India.
Hope you enjoy the photos. Please feel free to give your comments.
Cookies vendor
Shopping for cookies
A variety of dates
Shopping for new clothes
Another cookies trader
Capal of various sizes
Choosing headscarf
New watches for Eid Festival
Reciting prayer after receiving alms by amil
Perhaps you may also want to see last year’s Eid Bazaar which I shot at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman adjacent to Jalan Masjid India.
Stumbled on this scene when dropping by at Bandar Baru Kuala Lipis on the way back to KL from my hometown, Jerteh. Loved the smoke emanating from the burning charcoal added with low-angled lighting in the late evening. It gave a sense of drama and atmosphere. My personal opinion-lah
What do you think?
A hawker selling grilled chicken
