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Prince Philip Park (Sabah) through the InfraRed Lens

I read a lot about  InfraRed Filter  in 2002 and being excited, I bought an IR filter from the US for my Olympus C2100UZ camera. These are the photos I’ve taken from the Prince Philip Park in Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. It certainly gives a different perspective on things.

The science behind Infrared is rather confusing even for a greek like me so I shall not try to explain anything. I enjoy taking IR photos as it provides a different perspective of things around us. Everything becomes more surreal and there is simply no bad pictures in IR photography. Leaves are whiter and sky gets darker. It puts you in an alternative world.

My present camera does not support adding lenses filter as it does not have any threads to clip or screw any filters on but I will see if I could find a way to do it. I would also need to check if it does work with the camera as technically most digital camera would come equip with IR blocking filters in the camera itself.

Hope you enjoy the pictures. I will of course post the real world Prince Philip Park photos in the future.

Take care and enjoy!

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1st Sabah International Folklore Festival 2001

With an ethnicity rich and racially integrated society like Sabah Malaysia, it was its State Government goal to promote the importance of culture in its development agenda. With that, the first Sabah International Folkore Festival was held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia between May 29 to June 2nd 2001. This coincided with both the Kaamatan (Harvest) Festival of Sabah and the Colours of Malaysia Month. The first folklore festival kicked off with 11 countries participating namely from Malaysia, Poland, Taiwan, Austria, Croatia, Canada, Mali, Agentina, Brunei, China and Turkey.

A presentation of the folklore festival was held at the Sunday Gaya Street Market on June 3rd 2001 where I happened to be at. As this was taken some 11 years ago, I am unable to identify the countries but do enjoy the photos.

The 6th Sabah International Folklore Festival will be held on 8th – 17th July 2012 so if you are in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, do drop by and enjoy cultural dances from across the globe in the beautiful land of KK.

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