Fixing a gas stove Photo

Photographer’s Note

In one of these countless shops a long the busy Chulia Street in the center of Georgetown is also this cooking stove and accessories shop. Squatting on the floor the man tries to solder a stove, which normally is used by hawkers. At the same time he is chatting with his friends.

Cooking gas stoves are used in almost every Malaysian as well as Asian household, because electricity is not only more expensive but also is getting a pan much slower hot then gas. When you fry, you like gas, it’s very quickly hot. For many Asian cuisines gas is the right thing, because the food requires high heat.

serp2000, riclopes, Buin, subhendu_bagchi, jusninasirun, paololg, paura, gunbud has marked this note useful

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mkgoyal2004 (666) 2009-11-05 22:25

Hi Urs,

Again an example of good composition of daily life. Emotions of the welder is very interesting. Congrats.

serp2000 (9501) 2009-11-05 23:49

Hi, Urs,
I like your series from daily life of working people.
Another fine shot! Good colours and interesting details! Have a good weekend!
Serghei

ecureuiltimide (508) 2009-11-06 0:26

Bonjour Urs,
Voici une photo de la vie quotidienne, une scène que l'on ne peut trouver chez nous.
C'est aussi pour cela que j'aime cette photo, car je veux découvrir des choses différentes pour mieux connaître le quotidien des gens des autres pays.
Merci pour ce partage.
Amitiés.
Cécile

pajaran (3153) 2009-11-06 1:11

Zdravo, kod nas pada jaka kisa.
Zanati su ocuvali umetnost, pravi trenutak i dobre boje.
Svidja mi se fotografija.
Paja.

riclopes (33001) 2009-11-06 1:48

Olá Urs, I also prefer gas stove although it's not so easy to find it in Spain. My home now uses eletricity and it's much more dificult to cook well...
Anyway, like I said before, this is the kind of pictures I apreciate more from you, even if I can enjoy landscapes as well. This one is excellent with so many details to discover everywhere in the shop.
best regards,
ricardo

Buin (37656) 2009-11-06 2:20

Hallo Urs!
Wieder "mitten aus dem Leben"... ;-) Ein Foto, wie man es nicht so oft sieht, mit vielen interessanten Details und nah am Menschen. Was für ein Kontrast zur unpersönlichen Fließbandarbeit in vielen Fabriken! Danke für den interessanten Kommentar!
Grüße aus dem nasskalten Deutschland!
Frank

subhendu_bagchi (3101) 2009-11-06 2:27

Namaste Urs.
Nice double portrait of those men trying to lighten the gas stove. Use of flash provided sufficient light to it. Nice sharpness and DOF. Very well composed shot with kitchen utensils in BG.
Congrats.
Subhendu

pablominto (40712) 2009-11-06 7:10

Hello Urs,

Another photographic documentary of the diversity of daily life!
And I see two guys in a workshop, one of them is probably the customer who comes to have his stove fixed...
Good details, I'm a bit disappointed you cut off his knee hehehe..!

Greetings,
Pablo -

jusninasirun (10203) 2009-11-06 7:30

Hi Urs: If you are frying with a wok, electricity is not the as the flame is crucial. Anyway, gas is locally produced and channeled right from underneath the sea. This is a nice shot displaying the assortment of gas stoves in the background. Copper is probably the alloy utilized by the welder. Thanks for sharing and best regards. Jusni

paololg (13761) 2009-11-06 13:57

Ciao dear Urs,
a system to cook a few dangerous but surely efficacious! The photo shows us a typical scene of daily life, pleasantly animated by the two men and from the unbelievable BG with hundreds of objects of all the types. Really, an interesting shot, compliments!
Ciao, have a nice week end!
Paolo

paura (38410) 2009-11-06 15:10

Urs,
I love this kind of photographs where we can see views like this, a typical daily life shot. Thanks for sharing, friend.

Regards

Paulo

gunbud (27879) 2009-11-06 16:23

Hi Urs,
Clean crisp colors and wonderful sharpness to this man's gas stove shop.
He must be telling a very interesting story judging from the expression on the face of the man in the background.
Regards, Tom