In Pictures: Penang through a pinhole

Penang is a place that I return to at least once a year, usually as a visa run from Thailand. I call visa runs to Penang food runs, as one of my main motivations to come here is to eat the food that Penang is famous for. I also love just wandering around the World Heritage-listed streets of Georgetown.

Olympus Art Filter – Pinhole Effect

For this trip I decided to break up my photographic wanderings by using the pinhole setting on my Olympus PEN E-P3. I found the pinhole filter to be an ideal way to blunt the white glare of the midday sun and the darkened edges give of feel of a photograph from old-time Penang. I tried out the setting on food but it wasn’t appropriate so I will be posting on the delights of eating in Penang in all its unfiltered glory another time.

Classic Georgetown

[Classic Penang shophouses on Love Lane.]

[Queen Victoria Memorial Clocktower]

[Old Protestant Cemetery]

[Decaying Buildings]

[The space in front of each shophouse in known as a 5 Foot Way.]

[Cannon at Fort Cornwallis]

Religious Buildings and Monuments

[Kapitan Keling Mosque]

[Sri Mahamariamman Temple entrance]

[Assumption Church]

[Chinese Temple Incense]

[Buddha at the Burmese Buddhist Temple]

Attention To Detail

Part of why I never tire of visiting Penang is the little attention to detail on the buildings. From ornamental windows to the font and signage on shopfronts, this is a photogenic city.

[Chinese guardian lions]

[Light window]

[Bamboo Window]

[Campbell St]

Photo Notes

All photos taken on Pinhole mode with an Olympus PEN E-P3

[Photoessay concept inspired by Istanbul Through a Pinhole.]