Earth Hour 2011 @ KLCC Malaysia

This year 2011, Earth Hours falls on Saturday 26th March 2011. As usual, most of the skyscrapers around the globe will switched off the lights for an hour from 8:30pm till 9:30pm. Earth Hour started way back in 2007 in Sydney when individuals and businesses turned off their lights to take a stand against climate change which we facing now. Since then, it has become a global movement with more than 50 million people from 35 countries taking part annually.

KLCC in monochrome mode. 

We from Malaysia also took part for this good cause and I guess this is the 2nd time I managed to capture Petronas Twin Towers turns to darkness last year. This year, I was joined by my cousin and fellow friend who also into photography. The biggest mistakes I made this time is I forgot to bring my SD cards and my camera tripod holder before I left the house. Since we were near to Suria KLCC, I decided to purchase new 8GB SDHC card at one of the camera outlets to be used in my DSLR 20 minutes before the countdown.

 KLCC before 8:29pm

 When the clock struck 8:30p.m, the light does not turn off systematically.



 Both tower are totally turn off.

 At 8:31pm, both tower were totally turn off for an hour.

 The Maxis Tower clock also been swith off for an hour to show support for Earth Hour.


It was 4 minutes before the clock tick at 8:30p.m, we managed to find a spot to take the photo. Was quite impress with the speed of SDHC from a normal SD card as it stored the image quite faster than normal. When the clock struck 8:30p.m, the KLCC lights was turn off not as synchronize as last year. Seem like they simply switch it off randomly. My other friend which bring his new D7000 didn’t manage to capture the moments as he was busy mounting his camera to his tripod.

While we waiting for an hour before the skyscraper turn on back the lights, we chat and shared tips on taking picture at night. We decide the next outing will be night portrait photography.

 Playing with slow shutter speed but my wife and her friend keep on walking in front the lens and cause ghostly effect.

Nice pic of KLCC in the background but with ghostly effect. 

As we were chatting, my wife and her friends joins us waiting for KLCC to light up. It was fun hanging out with friends at KLCC park at night as it’s not as hot in noon or in the afternoon. When the clock strikes 9:30p.m, the KLCC light up again and it takes moments before the skyscraper were fully lighted up.

 When clock strike 9:30p.m, the light from Tower 2 were lighten up.

 Later join by Tower 1.










 Fully lighten up for both tower.




After the session, we went to have our dinner at Restoran Ah Goh at brickfields.