even monsoon already come close but we still manage to have beautiful sunset, sunrise and various good slow shutter as reward of taking risk to go when Monsoon season …
update 2014 Jun 8
update 2014 Jun 7
I had make another wonderful trip to Terengganu, 2-5 Jun 2014 and we managed to captured beautiful sunrise, sunset and milky way for this trips from Kuala Lumpur- Kuala Terengganu – Dungun
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update 2013 Nov 25
– Pantai Kemasik a good spot for landscape photographer … with strong wave, sunrise , fisherman village .. how could we skip this spot !!!!
– I love to capture wave here due to the impact and motion feel from the strong wave
– taking at Teluk Bidara and when the sun Ray show up …. every one rushing for their shutter … and hope everyone enjoy …
update 2013 Nov 25
– Philip Wee , one of the participant enjoy the wave so much but look at his pose to fight the strong wave …
– the wave is strong , we just have to take extra care for our belonging e.g. tripod, camera, beg, phone etc … protect it with water shield materials is a must
for the 5 days outing , we managed to almost round the island and stay near to both famous beaches.. Kuta and Pantai Sengigi for chasing the sun and stars .
overall the tips is amazing even we skip the most attractive location – Mount Rinjani.
Overall
1. beautiful beaches around
2. beautiful hotel near Pantai Sengigi and Kuta
3. security overall seem alright with local guide around and thanks Agung for the help and guide
update 2014 Jan 8
– beautiful place with lovely wave that those like to shoot seascape
update 2013 Nov 18
– dusk colors simple awesome even the sunset nothing special
– make use of ND 1.2 and ND .9 to make total 7 stops instead using big stopper
update 2013 Nov 8
– we was here for Milky for 2 nights but luck not with us .. but in the morning the Milky “tail” just above the Batu Payung
– a shot capture with Carl Zeiss 15mm F2.8 … the distortion control just awesome
update 2013 Nov 6
– a view that I plan for this trip and the sunset just beautiful with Mount Agung @Bali
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– a great place that need ~5 min walk from the beach
– when shoot at Batu Payung location, need take note on tide as tide could make the back path
update 2013 Nov 5
– a spot that cost a lot … this spot is close and need to buy drink to have a visit and the price is not at low site
– to come this spot, we need to pass a cliff that without any protection and this place is dangerous and if you visit here … pls stay extra carefull
– my legs were shake after back from the beautiful spot with Mount Agung as backdrop , cliff , wave sunset
I will make this a consolidation pictures collection of my Sichuan, CHINA trip
update 2020 March 26
Just another place .. never get bore .. remind me “we look at a people not on his education and outlook but how he/she behave”
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2013 Sichuan trip
Finally I make my first Autumn photography trip (after many years revisit autumn season but previously without Photography) .. and my destination is Sichuan. CHINA (四川 , 中国) .
we don;t have much group photo as we just too concentrate on landscape 😀
update
10 days trips which include below locations
1. 海螺沟
– a National Park that 4 stars with highest Mountain within Si Chuan – Minya Konka (贡嘎山)
– need to pay ticket and bus ticket ~RMB160 and only up to 1,2,3 stops (which can stop and walk to get more spots but we are on rush so I will redo this part next trip
– 4th stop need to pay RMB90 for the cable car to reach to the top of the park and the Minya Konka will look closer to us
– slow walk as the altitude >3000m after 4th stop
– small store for food
travel among for day 1-2
update 2013 Oct 22
2. 新都桥
– a beautiful place with river, houses, tree (turn yellow when autumn)
– a local view tower (mountain) allow us to shoot sunset with the village as foreground
– too many electric wire around, need more time to avoid the wire instead
update 2013 Nov 25
– view along the travel .. the view across the distance almost as beautiful as this ..
– we almost decide camp here for the view capture
update 2013 Oct
update 2013 Oct 22
3. 塔公
4。 康定-木格措
5。康定- 折多山 – 丹巴
update 2015 Sept 23
– 45min hike up to a high view point …. beautiful instead and we came here for 2 times 😀
update 2013 Nov 13
– very cold morning and the 四姑娘山 is so shy and were lucky it appear for ~1hour after the long wait …(on right)
update 2013 Nov 7
– on the way up 折多山 but snowing getting serious and we just stop at halfway and decided back to hotel … but all half way view just beautiful especially village, ice peak etc …
6。日隆镇 (四姑娘山)
not really go details to each location but trying my best to capture what I see … it is very beautiful place for landscape photography (think whole Si Chuan) should be heaven for landscape photographers …
update 2013 Nov 26
– 2-3th stops @双桥沟 ..
– tourist spot and still worth a visit with beautiful view along .. if able to walk among few stop could able to capture more beautiful view
update 2013 Nov 11
– walking up hill at ~3500-3800 meter from sea level is not easy and I managed to make it 1 hr and this is one extra shot I able to capture .. my friends missed this due to use horse 🙁
– an abandon house after the earthquake …. most of the houses here got distort but rebuild after the earthquake
update 2013 Nov 7
– thanks our drivers Xiao Zhou & Xiao Yang .. they brought us around and also their own village 嘛呢寨..
– a friendly village , love their way of treat guest … and beautiful uphill view for sunset and village view
*** I will keep updating this post for all I capture and remember ……. and please stay connect with me 😀
a beautiful place that I want to make a visit for long, and manage to make a quick trip there May 2013…
a quiet village with beautiful beach … low light (mean good for astronomy) …. and few spots good for sunset, sunrise etc …
need transport as no transport in the town or not many… drive normal speed from Kota Kinabalu will require 1.5-2 hr to arrive Kuala Penyu …
few place to stay and we stay at Tempurung Seaside Lodge which serve good food, good service and good relax place if bring friend, family 😀 … but for photography require transport to drive little way out .. range 5-15km…
Finally, I make a trip to a beautiful Indonesia again and this round managed to visit East Java which include Papuma and Bromo for seascape and volcano view …
we reach Surabaya which a real busy city , car moving slow …… and we travel ~7-8 hours down south to Tanjung Papuma … spent 2 nights with mix of cloudy and clear days we enjoy the beautiful beach , sunrise, sunset and nightsky … and I am sure will re-visit this place very soon ……….
after 2 nights spending over here , we travel ~3.5 hours to Mount Bromo. another 2 “cold” days we had on the Lava View resort which give us beautiful 2 sunrise, nightsky but no luck for sunset …….. this place like other share a very beautiful volcano … we climb up for 2 viewpoint which I will share the view soon here (by update)…
1. Penanjakan 1 – easy to access but very limit space for photography
2. Penanjakan 2 – nearer to Lava View resort but need ~20-30min moderate hike but plenty of space for shooting .. 😀
*** both view are facing direct south which have sunrise on left ….
– simply another Papuma Beach Milky way .. think everyone come here is easy to get this view
update 2018 May 22
– this is from 2018 May Photohunter to East Java .. some capture as usual at this beautiful place
the sunrise view , and this is captured with Panasonic G9 80 Megapixel High-resolution Mode
– a nearer view with Mavic Air
– beside sunrise , sunset also can have good view here
– nightscape view at Mount Bromo always highlight of the tour
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– after sunrise sessions, most the tourist will travel close to Mount Bromo with horse or by walk .. this could be good moment capture some good horse moment
– beside Mount Bromo, as usual we visit this lovely beach call Papuma Beach … sunrise, sunset , slowshutter and nightscape all can be attractive here
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update 2017 Nov 30
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update 2013 Jul 25
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– sunset spot and good to be there low tide
update 2013 April 10
update 2013 April 8
– cold , windy .. and misty at lower level …………
update 2013 April 3
– a place with strong wave, whole beach is like facing from North-East – South-West .. full with rocks… take extra care of the wave and wet rocks
update 2013 March 26
– I wish I stay near our hotel for the closer view of this beautiful moment even the hotel facing west
a beautiful place with sunrise and dam view, and it is not very touch hike to the peak for photography but advice to have experience person to go together especially hike when dark … (chase for sunrise)
i. 20-30 min drive from KL city
ii. ~45-90 minutes slow hike , steep on start but after ~15min should be easy but some part require hand for hike)
after reach clear part to view the dam, it is the safe place to shoot sunrise … avoid go further …. as it is slight dagerous hike especially on dark
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Bukit Tabur is a hill located in Taman Melawati, Malaysia. It is also known locally as Bukit Hangus. The hill is very prominent as it is part of Klang Gates Quartz Ridge and can be seen from the Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2. The hill, which is less than 1000 metres, is a quartz ridge. Climbers enter the hiking trail via Kampung Klang Gates, 50 metres from the gates of the Klang Gates Dam, at the back of Taman Melawati for a 3-4 hour climb. The Gombak Forest Reserve and Klang Gates Dam are beside the hill. The peak offers s view of the dam.