Reflection

I believe that I may have waited for more than a year to capture this scene. Everything gelled together: the full moon low in the sky, the reflection in the water, myself going to work at 6am on a Friday, crossing the Penang Bridge at the right moment and a place to stop the car momentarily at a stretch of the bridge's unopened third lane. This was the best shot from about eight or nine pictures that I took - the rest were blurred from the long shutter speed (2.5 seconds handheld but resting against the bridge's concrete railing -- apparently not good enough to cut down on camera shake as I could feel the road rumble whenever heavy vehicles passed me by).


Note: why did I say that I had waited about a year to take this photo? It's because the last time I saw a similar scene - the full moon and it's reflection in the water off the Penang Bridge - was about a year ago. Unfortunately at that time, I didn't have the camera with me but even if I did, there wasn't a place to park on the bridge then. So it was quite a providence that everything clicked together yesterday morning.