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If you are visiting Malaysia, one of the top places to go in Malaysia should include the Langkawi Island in northern Peninsular Malaysia. What can you see in Langkawi? Other than beaches or Perdana Gelleria, the next hot spot to go must be this crocodile farm. In fact there are not much things you can see in Langkawi but this farm surely worth a visit. Langkawi Crocodile Farm or Taman Buaya Langkawi in Malay is a 20-Acre-Land featuring over 1000’s of crocodiles in various species and also alligators, in a few separated man-made ponds.
I went there last year on my company trip to Langkawi. It has been 10 years since my last time there and there are still reasons to revisit this island.
After paying RM8 entrance fees, visitors could explore the garden the way you like freely. The main pond is the biggest with pedestrian bridge built over it.
Visitors could walk slowly on this bridge overlooking many crocodiles doing all sorts of activities resembling their real lives.
The environment within this 2o acre compound is very nice, comfortable, clean with lush greenery.
Wow, look at that! What’s the species of these crawling crocodile?
Further strolling down the walking path, we came to the show pond. No seating provided, visitors have to stand around the stage to watch the ‘man vs crocodile’ live performances.
There are 2 ‘old’ and tamed but big crocodiles in 2 small ponds. First of them came out of water to start the show…
Why is he opening his big jaw with sharp teeth? Any prey around? The audience?
Oops! He actually just woke up and waiting his teeth to be brushed! 
Simple action. The crocodile went back into the pond to sleep again after that. Lazy creature…
Now. The highlight of the day came. The second giant crocodile is coming!
Anaconda?
Water being sprayed onto her rapidly as she was crawling up. A hot tempered one I guess…
Dang dang…. dang dang… dang dang…..dang dang….
“Hi! How are you? Stay your head up will you?”
“Don’t move babe! I’m on your back…”
“Freeze!”
“Oh no! She is opening her mouth! Run! Guy Run!”
“Don’t worry! Superman is here… ”
“Err… let me test whether her teeth or my arm is stronger… ”
It’s more than 4m in length! Ladies and gentlemen, the show is over.
We continued to walk through the bridge over pond.
Wondering what are they doing? Sleeping? Chatting? Playing? Dying?
It suddenly rained. Look at them! They are alive! They definitely love rains!
We came to another pond. Oh no! These crocodiles are not friendly at all! They are looking for preys! They are mouth watering…
Oh I see. This is the feeding pond where crocodiles who are starving will crawle to here to look for real food, fresh meat. Only difference is there are served by trainers.
“Bye bye! Food’s finished! Not full enough? Try to be stronger next time!”
Other than that, visitors could also find a restaurant and a souvenirs shop inside the Langkawi Crocodile Farm. For RM8 per entry, you can spend your time there from 9am to 6pm. We stayed there for one and 1 half hour and that should be enough unless you are having lunch there or wandering in the souvenir shop. “Is it worth to go?” Should pay a visit if you haven’t been there before. “Is this post worth to read?” Must subscribe to my Feed via RSS or email if you haven’t done so! – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog
The above photos were captured with Panasonic Lumix FZ28
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Sounds like a devotee? Yes. Temple after temple on the 5th Day of Chinese New Year (年初五). We went to TianHou Temple, the biggest temple in KL after brunch (Malaysian slang: Breakfast and Lunch together!), and visited the Taiwan’s FuoGuangShan (佛光山) initiated DongZen Temple after dinner. It was actually planned by me. If you have read my previous post about TianHou Temple at night and FGS DongZen Temple at day last year, this is an update to the same places but in different time of day!
What are the 2 things dominated temples during Chinese New Year? Bingo! It’s lanterns and incense. Here are some photos captured in Tian Hou Temple…
There were people all over the temple who came here for prayer, devotion, site seeing, lantern watching, photo taking and so on…
What you could see from the above photos other than lanterns are lanterns or else lanterns. Have you got enough?
In the evening, we travelled for 1 and a half hour to another temple in Jenjarom, near Banting, Selangor. It’s DongZen Temple. Parking were all full and we needed to parked our car 2 blocks away. DongZen temple is the uprising destination during Chinese New Year because of it’s attractive lighting at night. Many people come here merely for it light decorations every year. I’m one of them…
All decorations with lighting are creatively designed and constructed with steel frame and thin cloth.
Wu Hoo! (五虎) Five tigers in the Year of Tiger.
GuanYin in a lotus pond.
Lanterns. This time is a mix of red and yellow lanterns…
At around 10:00pm, actress acting like a GuanYin (观音) parading in the crowd and splashing holy water to the crowd.
This sculpture of Buddha attracted many crowds as well.
Remember where the ‘paper felt’ buddha statue stood last year? It’s GuanYin statue this year…
As there were so crowded inside the compound, I did not take many photos indeed. These are just some introduction images to DongZen Temple at night. The traffic was so jam when we left the place and guess what? We reached home at 1:30am! 
Today is the 11th Day of Chinese New Year. There are still 4 days for whoever interested to see all these lighting and lanterns at these 2 temples. And I’m still have 4 days to celebrate this Chinese New Year of Tiger. GONG XI FA CAI – Travel Feeder, your only travel photo blog.
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Often enough we are relying on our camera’s intelligent to meter the scene for appropriate exposure. While the technology advancement has made our digital cameras so clever that they get it right on the spot most of the time, there are sometimes, under some tricky lighting condition, our camera metering can be fooled by the scene. This is when we should adjust our exposure compensation EV value.
One of the example is shooting portrait under overcast weather. Your portrait will be mostly under exposed if you were relying on camera’s matrix metering. In most happened occasion, you should increase the EV value to at least half a stop to capture a proper exposed portrait. Look at the example below.
This portrait was shot with exposure compensated to +1/3EV of a stop. The overall exposure is alright with no clipping highlight and shadow. However, if you look at the portrait alone (in this case would be my 2 children), they are slightly under exposed. This is where the mid tone is. How to create a cleaner portrait shot? I’ll need to adjust its level in post processing. Firstly, push the mid tone of the image towards the highlight zone. In this case, I need to blow some of the backgrounds like the sky and the boats, in order to get a perfectly exposed main object (the kids). Then I adjusted the middle tone contrast to reduce shadows of the children. Finally, I sharpened the image and that’s it!
This is the end result: A cleaner, brighter and more eye catching portrait shot. Because I pushed up the mid tone which is normally referred as key tone, a High Key portrait photo is created. In order to have a clean high key photo, you’ll need to capture the scene with reasonably correct exposure in order to avoid noise when adjusting the key tone level. In this case, the above photo would not be as clean if I captured with camera’s default metering which would be 1/3 stop under exposed. So back to the basic. Check the histogram on a trial shot to make sure the exposure is what you desired, and compensate if it is not. Enjoy photographing! – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo blog.
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