Category: Indonesia

Cultural Dance At Leang-Leang

Lip Seng

Makassar Fire Dance
The 2011 Garuda Indonesia International Photo Contest Final Round was held in Makassar, Ujung Pandang, December, last year. As a member of the panel of judges, I had an opportunity of visiting Markassar, Indonesia after a break of 10 years.
I captured this image at one of the sessions specially arranged for the finalist. I think is essential to synchronize the peak action of the performance with the precision timing of clicking the shutter for this image. I especially like the musicians in the backdrop that blended well with main subject.

A View From Pao Tere Harbour

Lip Seng


One of the events of the 2011 Garuda Indonesia International Photo Contest was to capture the typical scene of the Pao Tere Traditional Harbour, Makassar, Indonesia.
The visit was in a very sunny afternoon. The Harbour was not so busy as you could expect. I decided to board one of the ships to shoot a seascape with good framing. I was fortunate to have the beautiful sky with unusual clouds formation.
Without this element, I think the visual impact of this image would be very much weaker.

Crashing Waves

Lip Seng

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One of destinations for Landscape of Indonesia for the 2010 Garuda Indonesia International Photo Contest was at Tanah Lot, Bali. We always associated the location with image of beautiful sunset. As a member of the Jury panel, I was very pleased with this particular outing. Instead of capturing a brilliant sunset, I managed to catch the waves from the Indian Ocean crashing on to the rock of Tanah Lot. By using slow shutter speed setting of the camera, the visual impact of the waves is quite obvious. The touch of colour of the twilight in the sky is equally important and has further reinforced the visual impact at a greater height. The figure of the angler at the top of cliff gave a good sense of scale for the whole image.