Category: Travel

Taken on vacation trips

Man And Beast

Man And Beast
One of my favourite pictures from the outing we had at Savana on our last day in the Tenggar Caldera…

Dad’s friends arranged for 2 horsemen to join us at Savana during our early morning outing. They rode over the Savana while the rest of us started clicking pictures. Tired after all the riding, the horsemen (and their horses) decided to take a break. No breaks for us photographers though, as we continued to snap away. While many opted for a wider composition, I decided to make use of the longer reach of my 70-200mm to capture this. I like the juxtaposition of the man versus beast as well as the bokeh effect I got due to the narrow depth of field. I am really loving the sharpness of this lens: I can actually count the individual eye lashes on the horse’s eyelid in the full-sized original file 🙂

The Sky’s Alive!

The Sky's Alive!
Taking a break from the Javanese wedding pictures (not everyone’s cup of tea judging from the lack of responses/feedback :P)…

This an even wider view of the clouds dancing to the setting sun over Ceromo Lawang (see the previous posts here and here). I simply love the unusual cloud formations as well as the lighting! Dad has got a different interpretation of the same scene here, captured with his Leica Digital Modul-R. Sometimes, I feel that the beauty of photography is seeing the different interpretations that can be derived from the same subject material. The difference is in what the mind’s eye see.

Chanting His Blessings

Chanting His Blessings
In continuation of the recent series on the Javanese wedding at Ceromo Lawang…

When the groom arrived at the bride’s house, they were led into and seated in the hall where blessings were chanted by this man in a religious ceremony. I am not exactly sure what he was chanting, but I guess it was all for good luck. As he chanted, he would use a brush and glisten offerings of food with (what I assume was) “holy water”. I managed to catch him in his chant against the interesting wedding decor within the hall. I am not sure what a fellow photographer actually shot right beside me, but I was quite pleased with the composition I got in the end, given the tight space constraints 🙂