Photography is fun. At the end of the day, you take images you like to look at yourself, or you enjoyed taking, or to capture a memory that makes you feel something significant. I guess that’s why there’s such a huge variety of photos out there, and why so many people enjoy it as a hobby.
Nothing too grand about this shot above. In fact, as quality goes, it’s pretty rubbish. I shot it handheld at about 5.30am outside Siam Reap, in the temple complex of Angkor Wat, facing away from the temple itself where the sun would shortly be rising. Being dark, I ramped the ISO to 1600- never advisable on non-pro-range Canons- and still ended up with a little camera-shake to add some blur to all the noise. That canvas texture was there even before I processed it from the RAW image. Somehow, though, it still appeals. Not your typical moonlight shot, terribly underexposed and artificial, yet something about the noise and the poor quality makes it different from the usual gunf I post. Like the sunrise below.
Of course, half an hour later, the view facing in the opposite direction was the more cliched of the pair. Dramatic to watch. But I think I might almost prefer the first one…
