Taken on vacation trips
One of the must-dos when visitng Mount Bromo: get up at 4am, take either a horse or jeep to the foot of the mountain, and trudge up the mountain in the dark. Your reward: pristine clear skies with thousands of twinkling stars (sometimes a shooting star or two if you’re lucky) during the climb, and a glorious sunrise when you finally arrive. This particular shot of sunrise at Mount Bromo was taken at about 5.30am just slightly after we arrived from our climb.
Even before we arrived at Mount Bromo, we were already treated to a visual feast of wonderful lighting and colours. As we ascended from Probolingo to Cemoro Lawang (towards our accomodation at the Lava View Lodge), we were constantly distracted by beautiful scenery and photo-opportunities as the “golden hours” approached. We stopped our transport by the roadside numerous times to take pictures. This particular one was taken standing in the crop field of one of the farms in the area. I had a hard time thinking of a caption for this one, so unless you have a better suggestion, Golden Lollipop it will be for now 😛
My father has visited Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia for at least 6 times in the past 26 years. Each visit has reaped lots of good photography. I finally got the opportunity to visit the place with mum and dad over the last few days. Many kudos to my dad’s Indonesian friends for organising the trip and making it “photographically-rewarding”. I snapped over 500 pictures on my 20D and 300D just in 2 days!(yes — I actually brought two camera bodies with me. Changing lenses in the dusty environment was too much of a risk to take :P). A short preliminary look-through the RAW files when I got home last night yieded at least 24 keepers with lots more to come :D. I hope to present you with a long visual feast in the upcoming days 🙂