This bright red church in Malaysia is particularly unique, especially in Asia. I was drawn to the red flowers in the foreground that complement the scene. I took this shot in 2002 with a Mamiya 7 medium format film camera; the only lens I had for that camera was a 43mm which was equivalent to about a 21mm wide angle in our full frame digital format. My settings weren’t recorded, but I’m sure my lens aperture was f/32 for maximum depth of field (focus stacking didn’t exist then), and I would have used Fujichrome Velvia 50 transparency film. To guarantee everything was sharp, I focused about 7 feet into the composition. I derived that distance by taking the equivalent 35mm focal length of the lens – 21mm – and dividing it by 3. This is almost exactly equivalent to the hyperfocal distance. ‘Melaka’ is the Malaysian way of spelling ‘Malacca’, as in the Straits of Malacca, which are an extremely important geopolitical shipping route, especially for oil, from the Middle East to Asia.
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