Looking up at the Petronas Twin Towers
Monday 24th November. They are certainly fond of prestigious, modern-looking projects here – the city is full of big, shiny, new buildings. Perhaps the most famous is the Petronas Twin Towers. The tallest building in the world when they were built (though pipped since then by a couple of others and most recently by some massive thing in – you guessed it – Dubai) they were too tall to get into my camera shot from where I was standing. I walked right to the end of the little ornamental garden at the foot of the towers and still couldn’t get them in. So I resorted to an arty shot looking up the towers from the base.
Then I thought, “my camera does movies”, so I shot a little movie scanning the towers from base to top.
Then, finally, I thought, “just get further away” – though that was not as easy as all that – remember what I said about pedestrians? – and lots of other tallish buildings threatened to block the view.
Just about got them all in from this side street
But eventually, having crossed a few wide and busy roads, I found a side-street where you could just about see the whole of the twin towers and get them into one shot. Of course, a wide-angle lens might have saved me a lot of walking!
