Wooden Houses On Stilts (B&W And Texture)

During my recent visit to Sabah, I climbed Mount Kinabalu. After that, I had a chance to go island hopping. In a day, we visited 5 islands just off Kota Kinabalu town. It was a great trip. The five islands which are, Sulug Island, Mamutik Island, Mamukan Island, Sapi Island and also Gaya, are located close to each other.

The water was very clear, we could see fishes swimming around.  Too bad, we didn’t have enough time for scuba diving or snorkelling. But, we did parasailing, it was fun.

The houses below are taken when we passed through the last Island of our visit, Gaya Island. I took it while the boat when through slowly.

Wooden Houses On Stilts B&W

I have just tried two new stuff in post-prosessing images. First of the two is processing the image taken into black and white. I did it with Photoshop, dropping the saturation as low as I could with the saturation adjustment. Then, I increased the contrast by tweaking the histogram levels and also the curves. By decreasing the shadows  and increasing the highlights, the image has greater contrast.

After more editting, I added a little vignetting.

Wooden Houses On Stilts (Texture)

For this image. I used the black & white picture, and added texture to it. I added two texture in this picture. The first is a picture of a wood and the next is a canvas texture from photoshop> filter> texture. I intentionally left the golden brown colour of the wood grain, isn’t it nice?

 

Mount Korbu & Gayong – Part 3

Hey,

Part 3 of Mount Korbu & Gayong can now be read at adventurebloggers.com
Some other related post,

Mount Korbu & Gayong Part 1
Mount Korbu & Gayong Part 2
Mount Korbu & Gayong – Panorama View
Mount Korbu & Gayong – Map and Profile
M0unt Korbu & Gayong – Photos (Part 1)
Mount Korbu & Gayong – Photos (part 2)
Mount Korbu & Gayong – Photos (Part 3)
Mount Korbu & Gayong – Panorama 2

EDIT- Mount Korbu & Gayong article can now be found @ http://danielbmw.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/mount-korbu-gayong-my-ordeal/

 

More Pictures From Mt. Kinabalu…

Panorama From Laban Rata, Mount Kinabalu. (Pls Click For Larger View)

South Peak, Mount Kinabalu

Donkey Ear's Peak, Mount Kinabalu

 

Panorama of Mount Kinabalu Peaks.

Great week in Penang. I have always like Penang. Mainly for its delicious hawker food?

But this trip to Penang,  I did a 5 hour white water rafting! Last Tuesday, my family and I went to  Sedim River located in Kulim, Kedah. In total, there are 24 rapids. For me, the best rapid is called  the Triple Rapid. The Triple Rapid consist of 3 rapids one after the other. That means, once you have gone through the 1st rapid, you will ride on another until the 3rd. At the last rapid of the Triple Rapid, the guide turned the raft so that it will fall sideward. Resulting in the raft capsizing.

Actually, I liked the part when the raft capsize. Why? The thrill or the adrenaline rush.. I really enjoyed the water rafting activity like making the guide swim by rowing the raft away, capsizing the raft, racing at top speed, going down rapids….

Since it is now in the dry season, the water level of the river is very low. Our raft always either hit a rock or go over the lower ones. Then, the guide will have to pull the raft free.

For more information on water sports activity at Sedim River, visit RapidFire

Panorama of Mount Kinabalu Peaks

Panorama Taken Near Low's Peak, Mount Kinabalu

I took This Panorama about 500 meters from Low’s Peak. After reaching the summit of Mount Kinabalu, I descended and took this panorama with my compact Olympus. Low’s Peak is the 2nd peak from the left. If you look closely in full size, you can see tiny people on top there. Ropes as seen in the picture were laid across the naked granite rock to assist climbers.

The scenery there was wonderful, some of the peaks such as donkey ears and the South peak (the peak you see in your Ringgit Malaysia 1) are beautiful.

Do click on the picture for a larger size.

Putrajaya Night Marathon 2010 Results

The organizers of the first ever Putrajaya Night Marathon have released the results of the competition. My official time is 02:42:07 and net time is 2:41:28. I am not satisfied with the time of course. I thought I could do a sub 2:30. That means, I have to train harder for the coming Energizer Night Race which will be held in Cyberjaya on the 27th of March.

Of 891 runners in the Mens Open Category for Half Marathon, I am placed at position 501. From the time recorded using the ChampionChip (a chip that is tied on every runners shoe to record the time during the run), I realised that I ran too fast for the first 10km. Based on the time of 1:01:50, I ran at around 10 km/h. So, that’s the cause of me failing to complete the run below 2:30.

For more results, visit Putrajaya Night Marathon 2010 Results

Another 35 days to train before the Energizer Night Race!