a bioluminescent jellyfish-like pyrotechnic display during the putrajaya fireworks show in august 2007 staged by team australia, among other teams, bedazzled the crowds that came in thousands to watch the event.

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sunlight shines through the ovoid, glossy dark green leaves of terminalia catappa to create a sun flare on the jagged banks of air papan’s southern tip, near mersing in this march 2011 photo.

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a dead tree trunk was left untouched on a desolate beach to become a lone and silent observer on the seafront of the vast south china sea at cherating, pahang in april 2010.

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a cultivar of a lily of the nile, from the genus agapanthus, taken in april 2007 during pre-bloom stage at hillbrow garden in cameron highlands. it was singled out using a shallow depth of field to emphasize on the subject while reducing the distraction of the background to create an ethereal surrounding.

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a pissed-looking stingaree/round stingray awaited its certain doom on the shore of the south china sea after being fished out off the beach at cherating, pahang by a local angler in april 2010.

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an experiment in june 2007 using an ir filter produced a painting like effect on harvested rice fields at the back of my parents’ house in ketereh, kelantan. although it gave a surreal impact, the tedious post processes required to produce it resulted in my self declaration of never going to indulge myself in something as time wasting and unreal as that image again. from then on, i kept it as natural as possible and simple minor tweaks of brightness control, sharpening and resizing were good enough for me.

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the clear sky was dotted with the non migratory painted storks, where they nest colonially in tree branches and forage in flocks in shallow waters along the lake beneath. the scene was captured on the coziness of a wooden bench at zoo negara, while the kids and their mom were feeding expensive sugarcanes to the domesticated elephants in february 2010.

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taken in february 2007, one of the earliest pic using the then brand new 400d, gave me an opportunity to capture an early morning foggy landscape from the highest point at fraser’s hill silverpark, more than 1,500 meters above sea level, facing south on the titiwangsa range.

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the early morning calm waters of batu lake, selangor were sheared and stirred by the boat of the women’s coxless four rowers and their oar blades, while the women focused their motivated mind and endurance, curtained by dense foliage, we the useless spectators cheered and jeered, though not at all effective in this july 2007 photo.

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on a crisp clear noon in march 2007, the hot sea breeze did not help at all to quench the anxious feeling of trying to blend in with the swarm of the predominant bajau and filipino sellers and shoppers at the unkempt and ever crowded semporna market, which lies adjacent to the wooden jetty facing the celebes sea. i abandoned the effort and opted to exit and subsequently circumnavigated the market outer perimeter and was rewarded with a spectacular view instead.

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