I was quite bored at home during the first day of Chinese New Year since most of my friends all went back to their hometown. So after my dinner I was looking for some place to go shoot some Chinese New Year stuffs, obviously since it was Chinese New Year. The first thing that came to my mind was Thean Hou Temple, 天后宮, which is located in Kuala Lumpur, near Mid Valley. There was a huge jam going up the temple, so I decided to park my car at the bottom of the hill and walk up, cos I saw quite some people doing that, so it should be safe.

So here I am, took me around 15 to 20 minutes to walk from bottom of the hill to the entrance of Thean Hou Temple. There were a lot of people, friends, and family going up there to worship for a good year to come. And since it was also Valentine’s day, you see a lot of couples go there to take pictures.

There were a lot of lanterns there, and the biggest one was most probably this dragon lantern. Lots of people queuing up to take picture with the dragon.

The main entrance of the temple. Very nice signage.

Dragon bokeh anyone?

Lanterns or Tanglungs were everywhere to celebrate Chinese New Year.

No more candle lanterns.

One of the signature scene for Thean Hou Temple is most probably this. I think due to the reason of saving energy, the “lanterns roof” had an interval where it’ll light up for a period of time and then it’ll be off.

Very very nice roof fixture built from money that are donated to the temple. The temple is basically surviving on donations.

Luckily the lanterns on the edge of the roofs are always on.

More lanterns!

A phoenix statue standing on the roof. The details on the statues here in Thean Hou Temple are really quite nice.

This is quite a funny shot for me. Do you notice anything abnormal in this photo? After I shot this photo and viewed it on my computer only I notice there was a camera flash diffuser on the edge there. It blended in quite well I must say.

Far shot of how the above “mini dragon head” roof fixture actually looks like.

A pillar of dragon and clouds (the Chinese style).

Finally the “lanterns roof” light up and this is how it looks like below.

Lanterns overdose! Hahaha.

Went back upstairs to shoot the “lanterns roof” from above.

Big and small lanterns aligned nicely.

The lanterns bokeh.

Close-up of the dragon pillar.

The main joss sticks “pot” at the entrance to the inner temple.

Looking up from beneath the “lanterns roof” to see the “Dragon Ball” on the highest roof of the temple.

Was quite happy with this shoot, manage to get some shots that I like. Hope you’ll like them too.