The first celebration photo for Chinese New Year 2012

The first photo for this year Chinese New Year celebration, this was taken in one of the famous shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, the Time Square KL. If you have been following my blog since day 1, I always love to capture the festival mood through those decoration displayed in various travel destinations, especially the local shopping malls. Last year, I started off with Chinese New Year decoration in Mid Valley and The Gardens in Kuala Lumpur. This year, the giant man-made 2-storey-high Cherry Blossom tree in Time Square caught my attention first. Cherry Blossom or Chinese Blossom in this case represent the arrival of new Spring each year, which has become one of the symbol for Chinese New Year festival, eventhough cherry blossom is more renown as Sakura for Hanami (flower viewing) section in April in Japan (I’m flying off to Japan this April to view its full bloom! )

Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and my new Nikkor 10-24mm Ultra Wide Angle lens. Shutter speed 1/60s and Aperture F3.5. Focus distance was set to the widest 10mm (with both sides being cropped). ISO 640. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and no exposure being compensated with Matrix metering.

I love my new Nikkor 10-24mm Ultra Wide Angle lens since day 1 when I bought it to replace my old Tamron SP10-24mm last October, a month before my immaculate trip to Beijing. I still love the Tamron, which served me well for both of my Europe travel last 2 years, but the Nikkor is sharper, faster and with lesser distortion (I will write a review post on it soon! ).

Since 2012 Chinese New Year of Dragon is less than 2 weeks away, you can expect more celebration photos to be posted up here on my travel blog. Watch this place for more! – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel guide to Malaysia