Thaipusam 2020 on film

Another long post, but I don’t fill like splitting this story up, hey that’s my third post about Thaipusam this year.

The first Kavadi bearer

On arriving at Farrer park MRT, we met our first Kavadi bearer.

Pots bearers

And then more devotees waiting for the traffic light.

The little devotees

And the older ones

Then when moving inside the temple the devotees are assembling the Kavadis

or prepare their offerings

While others use their phones to snap their friends.

Looking proud

Family and friends accompany the devotees.

The drummer

A member of a Chinese groups of devotees (and a friend of a friend)

This one goes into a trance.

Pictures above are taken Ilford HP5 shot at box speed, I used not to be a big fan of this film, but actually I am very satisfied with these results. The pictures after are done with the Kodak TMY 400, not exactly my usual Tri-X, but i generally quite like it.

Actually I don’t see any difference, so I may shoot more of the cheaper HP5 going forward.

Still osculating but looking more steady.

Holly smoke

One of the priests of the temple

Preparation is everything

All shots with Leica M6 Classic and most of them with the Summicron 35mm F2 AsphvII (the last version), processed at the usual lab (well dropped at Ruby and they get the usual guy do the work) and scanned at home with the Epson v800.

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