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Kodak Tri-X 400
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SPII
Asahi Super Takumar 50mm f1.4
Micro-mf
1:2, 13 mins
Scanner Canoscan 9000f
Taken on one of the streets of Ipoh. Love the old buildings in town.
Voigtlander Bessa VC 35mm f/1.4
Fuji Superia Xtra 400
Ipoh is the capital city of Perak state, Malaysia and also one of the largest cities in the country. It is approximately 200 km (125 miles) north of Kuala Lumpur and 130 km (81 miles) south of Penang on the North-South Expressway.
Ipoh developed into one of Malaysia's main cities around the turn of the 19th century due to the booming tin mining industry. During the British colonial era, Ipoh was Malaysia's second city for administrative purposes. Architecturally, the city centre is characterised by Straits eclectic shop houses. There are several impressive historical buildings from the British Colonial era such as the Railway Station, the Town Hall and the Court House.
There are still some abandon buildings of the colonial days in town, , historic colorful,
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Hugh Low Bridge is a bridge across the Kinta River in Ipoh. It spans Hugh Low Street and today the street had been renamed to Jalan Sultan Iskandar. The first wooden bridge across the Kinta River on this site was built in 1890. The bridge was named after Hugh Low (1824-1905), who served as the fourth British Resident of Perak between 1877 and 1889. Ten years later, the bridge was rebuilt in iron, enabling the expansion of Ipoh across the river.
This familiar signboard greets northbound motorists on the North South Highway, signifying a highway exit to the historic city of Ipoh.
In the old days before the North-South Expressway (NSE) was completed as a single contiguous highway, travelers would have to go through Ipoh city before continuing with their journey, but since then the NSE bypasses Ipoh completely.
Shot through the windshield and cropped in post.
"Concubine Lane", the most touristic street in Ipoh.
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Concubine Lane, la rue la plus touristique d'Ipoh.
Ipoh padang, right is the St Micheals Institution (SMI Ipoh), a Catholic mission school. Center is the Ipoh club, a place for the well heeled Ipoh residents, on the left is the old commercial district of Ipoh Old town.
Concubine Lane'“二奶巷" Formerly named for the brothels and residences of businessmen's concubines flanking the street.Concubine Lane is a narrow alleyway lined with two rows of two-storey pre-war houses that date back to the turn of the 20th Century. The lane had apparently been a hotbed of vice activity, home to gambling, prostitution and opium dens, which later became a residential area from which it got its name “Second Concubine Lane” being one of three streets where the Chinese wealthy had housed their concubines. Today, what greets the visitor are the crumbling and closely spaced units, some still occupied, and others, structurally unsound, lying abandoned.