Travel Photos – Kek Lok Si Temple of Penang

Happy Chinese New Year 2011! What I love to do during this festive season is to travel around to snap photos of Lunar New Year lighting and decorations so I could post them here for sharing. There is no exception this year. Instead of capturing lighting and decorations of Dong Zen Temple or Tian Hou Temple like last year, I snapped something different this year. I traveled further up to the Northern state of Penang to capture the marvelous lighting effects in Kek Lok Si Temple, the biggest Buddhist temple in South East Asia. 🙂

Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm kit lens. Shutter speed 1/30sec and Aperture F3.8. Focus distance was set to 24mm. ISO 800. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and exposure being compensated by +1/3EV with Matrix metering.

An overview of the Kek Lok Si Temple from downhill. A plethora of lanterns was hung in conjunction with the Lunar new year each year. The prominent feature of this temple is the 7-storey-pagoda uphill and it is called The Pagoda of Ten Thousand Buddhas. On top of the adjacent hill is the latest pavilion sites the bronze giant GuanYin (The Goddess of Mercy) statue, which could be seen at the furthest left hand side.

Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm kit lens. Shutter speed 1/30sec and Aperture F3.5. Focus distance was set to 18mm. ISO 200. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and no exposure being compensated with Matrix metering.

Taking an inclined lift up to the hill top, there is another pavilion with temple halls and off course this 30.2m high GuanYin statue housed within a new and under construction giant 16-column-shelter (scaffoldings and tower crane still can be seen at one side). At 7:30pm every night, the whole temple and this giant GuanYin are lit up with beautiful lighting. Grabbing this excellent sun setting moment, I managed to capture the scene with some lively sky light. 🙂

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.