Based on Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a Bird guide/photographer passionate nature which include flora, fauna, insects, birds, landscape and anything related to nature....
finally I was step into abeautiful Sarawak after long waiting .. I was invite by BINTULU VISUAL-ARTS COMMUNITY (BVC) to share some knowledge on MACRO and Landscape and have a Mega Outing …
even I only there for 2 day for BVC and found you guys rock … patient and the effort to group all the people are well done …
and I spend another 1.5 days with my long known Bintulu friends (Goh, Tony, Ai Ting ….. ) and most of their friend came out for meet up and we went a dark place for star, long house, jungles for mushroom adventure … and your patient on photography especially mushroom, nature got my FULL respect ….
I am still busy after continous working , outing … and I didn’t shoot a lot .. but here is one of the beautiful view at Tanjung Batu, Bintulu, Sarawak …
Tanjung Batu , Bintulu
update 23 Jun
... the wait | Tanjung Batu, Bintulu, Sarawak ...
will share more slowly …. especially many beautiful mushroom pictures
tripod is my GOOD friend … I always say this and for my last trip, most of my friend look at me and ask why you bring your tripod any where … my answer is “I do not want to miss anything”
a good tripod for me should serve me few objective
1. sturdy
2. lowest possible angle
3. highest possible angle
4. the leg connection design, I had few experience with other brand tripod all failed on the leg which sand went into the connection cause the failure
5. size
6. weight
7. cost
we invest thousands of dollar on our equipment and I don’t think it is good idea to put it on a tripod that risk your equipment …..
I need my tripod to be stable because I do not want it to fall
I need my tripod have lower angle, because I know I need it
I need my tripod to have light weight because I bring it any where
I need my tripod to be durable to sand attack as most of us go beaches know it kill our tripod
I wish the price is cheaper, everyone wish too
I wish it can be multi tasking … yes mine can use as monopod
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some sample places I use for my tripod and it never failed me like previous tripods (which cost me RM300-2000)… it still serve me GREAT after 1.5 year heavy utilise (only clean once) …
the 1st stop for my 1 week trip at CHINA 21-28 May 2011…. what I remember ~1hour travel from GuiLing international airport to the main Entrance of the Longji Terraces (龙脊梯田) tourist centre … follow by another ~40 minutes toruist bus to the start point of the Terraces… then ~2 hours easy walk (stair cases) to the highest point of visit point 4 ( 金坑梯田)
the first view near our accomondation ….
... 龙脊梯田 | Terraced Fields ...
the view simply amazing but too bad the weather raining non stop and base on the weather forecast the rain will last for another 1-2 day .. ..
but hope for the best, I still woke up ~430am the next morning to have a morning walk …. and I am happy that I found a view that can show how the water been flow through the field …..
... the Beginning | 由此开始 ...
farmer will start using manual way to make hole allow water from top flow down to the next field and this repeat for every layers …….
a bug that really make my day, we had a short night outing in a reserve jungle within KL …. within 2 hours .. we found few interesting model e.g. Spotted Litter Frog… , juvenile Spiny Turtle, Lovi’s Reed Snake & Marbled Forest Gecko
a nothing special while you see it at picture …..
... fireflies ? and it is ...
have a look how interesting is this firefly
I didn;t able to capture it’s head due to the environment … and would love to see it again
thanks Andy Paul for the ID
adult larviform female of a firefly from the lamprigera spp.
but today let share how I shoto at a place I stand real firm … or not easy to move 😀
where I shoot
think the picture I capture at this angle had been remove and I have one recent post one which need ~10 steps forward 😀
... still standing ...
* think you can see it in the picture above
it is too much fun to look for better angle in Landscape Photography … it just make me keep moving .. so if you like Landscape let move and let’s try some new place and angle ………..
a simple shot that may not come out easy…. just share one of my tough shot recently done at Kemasik Beach, Kemaman, Terengganu…
I was standing near the big rock waiting for the big splash …. my len filters keep splash by wave, need non stop drying , and myself wet too after few splashes that I feel not stong enough and finally I got the splash what I looking for … then I got wet and have to run away from it …. have ~30-50 shutter press for this
running from wave
and this is a simple and happy shot with a lot of effort (for me ….)
