Legendary Temple Photo

Photographer’s Note

Shi Na Du Temple ( 石拿督庙 ), it have an intriguing history, almost unbelieve able about it. Today, this is a famous temple, many believers come to worship and ask for lucky numbers.

Shi Na Du Temple was built 140 years ago. Shi Na Du his actual name is Shi Man (石满), or in English “Semang”, is the main aboriginal of Peninsular Malaysia. One day, a villager dreaming that there have a person cultivate alone according to his believing in the clumps and finally success become a ‘God’. The villager awake and search for the the place inspired in his dreamland, finally he found Shi Man under a tree. He told villagers about this event and built the Shi Na Du Temple for Shi Man.

Workshop 01 : Gardening

Workshop 02 : Backyard

dip, dareco, Jonathan_Tree, pierrefonds, belido, fulvio52, alftrek, ChrisJ, jafadabret, gunbud, jusninasirun, lrw1966, pablominto, Charo has marked this note useful

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dip (12550) 2009-04-05 21:58

Hi Ally,
nice and colorful photo of the temple,very good POV and sharpness,
well done,
Dimitris.

dareco (17104) 2009-04-05 22:05

A very beautiful and interesting place. Nice lighting, and very colorful! TFS

Graal (57717) 2009-04-05 22:49

Hi Ally,
an interesting view, fine perspective of stairs and "human accent" on FG. Beautiful details of architecture. Well complementary WS. I like it.
Gr., Aleksander

gracious (20017) 2009-04-06 0:41

Hello Ally,
Good uphill pov on this beautiful temple!
this place is well maintained and clean!
good sharpness, wonderful colour and great details always
many thanks for the sharing
Tony

mauro61 (15270) 2009-04-06 1:20

ciao Ally,
bella e colorata immagine del tempio con le scale a dare profondità.
Buona gestione della luce.
saluti
maurizio

jmdias (19097) 2009-04-06 3:08

ally

nice image, the stair created beautiful lines that send us to the seated man and the gate of the temple. beautiful light and details. I would like to make a photo of that golden sign in the stone mixed with the shapes of the stairs..

hugs

jorge

Jonathan_Tree (4233) 2009-04-06 4:04

Hi Ally!
Interesting temple. Very interesting man. Nice perspective. Beautiful light and colors.
Cordially!

pierrefonds (26137) 2009-04-06 4:42

Hi Ally,

The presence of the person has an effect of scale. The staircase and the steps are leading us to the temple which is giving perspective to the photo. The trees and the vegetation are fraiming well the steps. The quality of the light brings out the best of the colors. Have a nice day.

Pierre

TopGeo (21711) 2009-04-06 5:40

Hi Ally,Wonderful shot a nice and colorful photo of the temple,It is three pictures that supplement the interesting presentation of here Good first entry a good composition with very good POV and sharpness,Excellent work
Georgios

belido (16341) 2009-04-06 6:30

Hi Ally,

colorful and attractive. The light conditions were not the best but you did a very good job on that. We see details of the shadow areas and there is no over exposure on the other parts. Very nice...and thanks for sharing the other photos.
Regards,
Carlos

fulvio52 (8314) 2009-04-06 8:26

Hi, Ally.
Interesting perspective and excellent light management under the circumstances in this one, as a result colors and detail are very nice indeed. Thanks also for sharing with us the workshops, therefore providing us with a pretty good idea of how the whole place looks like. I appreciate that. Have a good day, I'll be seeing you.
Fulvio.

Waylim (10741) 2009-04-06 13:05

Hello Ally,
That is one thing that I particularly don't like about the Chinese or most Asian superstition, the believe in lucky #, and people take it so seriously. I don't mind so much that people go to temple to pray for good health and peace, but to pray for wealth and more money is just pure greedy to me. Off course we all like to have more money, than work harder and smarter, but not believe in such thing as lucky lottery #. Take that money and invested in something good, give it to the poor, and perhaps you build good deed that will result in good luck.

Anyway about this shot great shot, I like the composition, the man on the stairs look lost and depress, perhaps didn't have any good result with the lucky #?

Way

alftrek (2783) 2009-04-06 16:32

Hello Ally
I can see this is a well considered composition, the flower pot, the tall palm trees and the man are all well placed. The shadow has a great effect on the steps. Another fine quality photo, Ally.

Regards
Alfred

ChrisJ (70099) 2009-04-06 20:47

Hi Ally

The seated man at left, adds a welcome human element, & there's good repetition of the stairs. Excellent sharpness & upward pov, on the temple, with superb colour & framing. Tfs!

delpeoples (5858) 2009-04-07 1:28

Hi Ally, I really like the low POV here, the way the stairs lead the eye up to the temple and also your placement of the man in white to the far side of the frame. Great management of extremes of light and shade too. Well done, Lisa.

trekks (14262) 2009-04-07 2:12

Interesting name for a temple! A good composed view of the gate entrance, with steps leading up.

I never trust that a temple can provide wealth generation tactics to draw large followers and believers. It is a form for greed. Because it encourages people to put money in gambling and the temple is helping people to gamble.

tfs, bill

jafadabret (39441) 2009-04-07 9:08

Bonjour Ally.
Cette photo est superbe. J'aime la lumière et le rendu de l'escalier qui pénètre jusqu'au cœur de la composition. Couleurs et lumière sont au top.
Bien réalisé !
Jacques

sacimar (7381) 2009-04-07 10:09

Hi Ally,

interesting place and good picture, I like the perspective with the stairs going up, good colours and details, interesting note, well done!

Regards

Sergio

stego (22350) 2009-04-07 15:03

Hi Ally,
The name reminds Xanadu. It looks like a very pleasant place, with that unique Chinese charm. I like very the presentation you offer us with these 3 photos.
Regards, José.

gunbud (27787) 2009-04-07 17:16

Hi Ally,
Wonderful bright light renders clear crisp colors and razor sharpness to this lovely temple.
The long set of steps adds effective depth to this fine composition.
Regards, Tom

jusninasirun (10185) 2009-04-07 18:40

Hi Ally,

Very good take of this temple in tall framing. The details are so well captured in nice rendering of colors. Excellent play with light and shadow in framing this beautiful perspective.

TFS and best regards,
Jusni

John_F_Kennedy (31229) 2009-04-08 2:36

Absolutely beautiful! I like the colours. A great composition. The perspective is very nice.
Best wishes,
Achim

lrw1966 (1630) 2009-04-08 4:52

Ally, Hi:

This is amazing architecture and daily life composition. Marvelous PoV and wonderful colors with clarity of details. Very nicely done.

Larry

janusz2054 (799) 2009-04-08 6:49

Hi Ally
The perspective is very fine.Very good sharpness and wonderful colour.
Regards
Janusz

ElAprendiz (7370) 2009-04-08 8:28

Hi Ally:

The point of view is pleasant, although I consider that you had been able to balance the entrance, I see since it inclined.

The launching slips make direct the glance us towards the bottom, raising and raising. The seated person, offers life to the scene. Good handling of the illumination.

A hug from Colombia, John

pablominto (40488) 2009-04-11 23:51

Hello Ally,

Good lead-in to the temple, stairs are always effective in that way!
The gate is well framed, good colours and sharp fine details...
The composition has a fine feeling of depth, and the person in front is well placed in the frame!

Greetings,
Pablo -

Bluejeans (32053) 2009-04-12 16:37

Ola Ally,
São lindos este templos da Malásia tem uma arquitectura bem rica em detalhes e cores, bom uso da foto na vertical com a entrada deste templo , boas cores e luz , parabéns
Um abraço Gonçalo

Charo (31665) 2009-04-26 13:29

Hello Ally,
Fantastic capture of the entrance to this temple. The stairs give you a great depth to the image and graphics. Excellent light and colors.
Best regards,
Charo