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To Market, To Market…

February 20, 2013

To Market, To Market...
I hope you are enjoying the series of pictures I am posting up from my recent trip to Indonesia… So far, the pictures I have posted have been taken from the first day I arrived in Solo City. There are a lot more to come from the subsequent days! 🙂 This is from our second day in Solo City. We arrived in this traditional market just when the stalls were setting up shop on a Sunday morning. Obviously, the level of activity picked up as time went on. By the time the crowds came in, the sun was just at the right level to provide the warm light we needed to illuminate the colourful candid scenes we saw.

Crafting the Gamelan

February 17, 2013

Crafting the Gamelan
This was where I retreated to after the heat from the previous post! Obviously, crafting these musical instruments requires quite a fair amount of precision work in order to get the tone and pitch of each piece correct.

In The Fiery Forge

February 14, 2013

In The Fiery Forge
New post updates will be more frequent with the recent haul of pictures I took in Indonesia… 😀

The first place we visited for photography after our arrival in Solo City was a forge where ethnic Javanese musical instruments and gongs were made. Getting into the forge was a challenge due to the heat and level of dust kicked up by the work going on inside. To protect ourselves, we had to put on disposable ponchos and face masks. Unfortunately, this made the actual picture-taking process practically unbearable due to the immense heat! I lasted barely five minutes inside before I had to retreat outside for some fresh air. The above is probably the only decent picture I managed to get during those few minutes within. Interestingly, someone has posted a short video clip of the gong-making process much earlier on, showing literally what we actually saw. There is quite a fair bit of ritual involved in the forging of these musical instruments as this post describes.