Friday 16 November 2007

Autumnal hues

The northern hemisphere is experiencing autumn (or fall) and London is no exception. The British climate is a maritime one and therefore isn't as harsh in winter as in the US, occasionally the continental anticyclone systems do drift far enough eastwards and we get Siberia-like winter.

London in the autumn is my favorite season, due to the wonderful colours of the trees, the crisp chilly air and clear blue skies, like in the photo above. However, the drawback is that the sun sets early, about 4:30pm and darkness falls by 5pm. Photographically speaking, the bright sunshine and low sun makes for long drawn shadows (when the sun is out, that is!) which makes nice abstract images if one cares to look around. I intend to grab some Christmas shoppers and street scenes in this light soon. There is a seasonal ice rink installed by the Science Museum grounds in South Kensington with pretty Christmas lights illuminating skaters, which I might go take a peek one day!

16 comments:

benjaminujang said...

oh hello!

i feel so honoured when you leave your comment in my blog..!

yea,,,i love sarawak and still miss it, homesick man, cant wait to go back to my longhouse, anyway come to visit my longhouse sometimes,,,celebrates christmas at longhouse is awesome...its like what you said, thats what true malaysian are..mixing iban culture and western is totally exotic..hehe!

thanks a lot!

p/s: still waiting for you to sign the book! hehe!

svllee said...

Hello Ben,

Thank you for visiting here, and thanks for your invite to your longhouse. Yes, I would love to come visit one day, maybe next Christmas?!

Did you get a copy of the book? Perhaps I will sign it the next time we meet. Where are you based?

regards

Steven

benjaminujang said...

your welcome steven,

yes i do have the book, im staying at s.alam right now, sem break, when my sem start i'll be back to cyberjaya, im studying at limkokwing U by the way.

rachel, a kick boxer!
im pretty sure she's strong and kick ass like "RENTAP"..."agi idup agi ngelaban" hehe!

Tracy Tan said...

can't wait to see your fall photos :)

svllee said...

Hello Ben,

Good morning. Thank you for purchasing a copy of Malaysians. Did you know that LKW uni has a branch in London?

There's an article about the book in tomorrow's Kosmo! paper.


Hi Tracy, guess in Ningbo its also autumn?

regards

Steven

benjaminujang said...

yep..!

and also botswana, and they plan to open a branch in china..thats what i heard..!

i plan to do my final year at LKW london actually..but its gonna be another 2 years,,are you still there by the way??

benjaminujang said...

i've today kosmo man,,
that was really great article bout the book, and you're such a humble but talented person,,i respected that when u said " Bagi saya gunakan apa yang ada. Lebih baik tidak bertukar lensa daripada saya terlepas gambar yang menarik! " hehe!

svllee said...

Thanks Ben, although I can't really remember what I said in the interview! You buy Kosmo!?

benjaminujang said...

yep...i did...why?
where are u right now..still in london or malaysia?

svllee said...

Hi Ben, I am in London, so you should be bed at this time! Ha ha! Thanks again for the heads up! Cheers, Steven

§pinzer said...

Hi, came here several times for updates on new pictures you might have. Always an inspiration to see great picture taken at a local area, and it so happen that you were refering to South Kensington, where I used to live last year!

Will be waiting for your fall pictures as well, all the best :)

svllee said...

Great to see you here, where are you staying now? Are you a student at Imperial College?

§pinzer said...

I'm based at Euston now. Just graduated from Imperial College, and now waiting for replies from job applications.

Other than that I'm just looking around for part time jobs and generally socializing and taking pictures =)

§pinzer said...

Oh by the way, have you heard of Syed Abdullah? He studied photography in London in the 1960s (which is quite a while ago, I realised).

There's a guy who approached me with the idea of having a photo exhibition called 'The Residency Years: A special tribute by Syed Abdullah' in London. What do you think about it, and how realistic is this idea?

svllee said...

Hello Chris, you in to photography too? Very good form of self expression. Euston area is very central, what jobs are you applying for? What did you qualify in? Congratulations for graduating from Imperial. You must have done engineering or medicine?

svllee said...

Hi Chris, have not heard of him, but will do some searching. Thanks