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Yunnan another county of China which attract alot of tourist or photograph to be here .. but my first trip here just make to a small village of Deqen.
we were here for bird watching but I can’t resist to plan few morning to capture the beauty of this place …
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another photohunters trip to our favor location Bali, Indonesia. as usual we had chasing non stop SUnset, Sunrise and Milky Way … glad we had very good weather , colorful sunrise, sunset, rays , clear sky for milky way ..
due to peak season and room availability for the first day , immediate after wet and lovely sunset at Tanah Lot. We move forward to Jatiluwih follow by Milkyway chasing , the sky cover by clouds when we arrived and very soon it open up for us capture the beautiful of Milky Way with lovely paddy terrace.
With less than 3 hours sleep, everyone wake up for sunrise. Glad that we have lovely sunrise .. after the sunrise, everyone grab a quick rest before travel to another beach for sunset ..
After a “egg yolk” sunset , going for dinner than continue our Milky Way chase . today the sky is obviously clearer so everyone should have good Milky Way.. one of the participant say : it is my first time capture Milky Way and it is so easy and clear ! 😀
Next Morning , we decide walk ~1km for sunrise with our favor spot . “Yes” it is fill with water in the paddy field , what we need just beautiful light to have WOW reflection + sunrise + terrace paddy
instead any beautiful color, we given long shining Rays and allow everyone changing their angle for the beautiful all direction rays
After beautiful sunrise and breakfast, we travel 3 hours to another favor spot Mount Batur . We do not have very good angle for sunset, so we decide to make a sunrise spot for sunset (reverse sunset) . When we arrive at the place , the sky show another hour of lovely RAYS ! not much foreground but we still trying best to squeeze in the plantation and small hut for the lovely RAYS … follow by chasing Milky way for varies locations … sky is clear too . Some start say ohhh we shoot Milky way too much now :p
With another less than 3 hours sleep, we move to Lake Batur for sunrise. Here, change a lot since my years first visits. Rubbish any where, wooden boat changed to fibre etc but it still a beautiful sunrise spot and YES again we have lovely colors sunrise .
for the next few days, we spend our day at Amed for Mount Agung .
while we were here .. weather again is very good and we spend quality time here with Milky way, Mr sun .. etc
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Just completed our another Photohunters trip to Sichuan … *** will update the route ASAP ..
from the beginning, our main target is Mount Gongga from various direction …
let’s start
update 2017 Jul 19
a lovely day, we welcome with beautiful open Mount Gongga which same as other high peak.. it is seldom open for us to see ..
make use of Lee Filter GND .45h to balance to sky part and CPL to enhance the reflection on lake
2017 Jul 11
Day 1 – KanDing
we try to make everyone get use to the high altitude so we stop at Kanding … we had our great pizza, beer, steak etc here 😀
Day 2 – 上木居
While our way to the destination, many beautiful stops but raining non stop so we can;t make any stop.
Here is our main destination, for Mount Gongga .
OHHHH . bad new hit … whole village no electricity supply !!! and it is still raining and cold
Day 3 – 子梅垭口
what a surprise , snow near our shooting ground . and the Mount Gongga is cover by snow and mist.
update 2017 Jul 12
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6 丹巴
a lovely place, 2nd visit but first visit is like been cheated …
update 2017 JUL 13
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finally back from another Photohunters outing 2016 May, Bali, Indonesia ..
we travel mostly center of Bali … and Skip the west path from the map as it is my own extension travel …
we had 13 of us , shooting non stop from sunset, nightscape, sunrise, slow shutter etc … and most of us feel tired after 2-3 days the outing but all seem enjoy the shooting session till last moment .
sharing some pictures from the tour below
1. Group Photo at Kintamani
2. solo shooting , sunrise on left site and my buddy Gung facing there and I am turning to south direction because saw this 😀
3. while we shoot sunset at Mengening Beach, Bali … saw the pre wedding shooting so I try to snap and go lo
4. stand from Sanur Beach
5. Sanur Beach always with Mist !!!!! and a dream boat 😀
6. main target .. nightscape .. not bad everynight also we got clear sky for the milky way shooting
7. cold place and trying different angle and someone camping here !!!!
8. after Milky way .. sunrise here with mist is best but still need to redo due to wrong info by my buddy Gung
9. again high tide !!!! never got chance to shoot low tide here 🙁 but love the golden light hit on the gold rock
10. lovely Jatiluwih paddy field layes, Mount Agung, Moon, blue hours, beautiful sky 😀
11. new spot for Milky way … good to come here by May-Jun 😀 new technique to shoot milky reflection
12. think my last visit this spot .. getting dirty and worst
13. sunset moment .. but think lack of foreground but end up I take another foregound from other place become .. but need more time to post
14. finally got beautiful shoot from here but sunrise direction is way out this month 😀
15. remember bring tele len .. you wont know when u need for landscape 😀
16. light up !!!!
17. think the only time I visit Jatiluwih at Green … and this time we got GREEN + Milky Way 😀
Few nearby tourist locations, I didn’t make all to all the spots as my visit is mainly for photography.
A complex national park , I spent few day to understand the only wulinyuAn pArk.
Buses to different location the interlink need walking and by between the busstop the rod is exist . and no idea why they never make it interlink more convenient
Many walking for bus –elevator interchange (200-400m) . and it is not photography friendly , most of the bus start service 8-830m – 6pm only (sunrise 720m) [someone told me it is due to off peak season and I will check peak season or normal season bus operation hour] so if want to shoot sunrise/sunset need special arrange with extra payment
This trip mainly concentrate on wulingyuan which mainly divide by 3 parts YuanJiaJie, （袁家界） Yang JiaJie (杨家界)and TianZhiSan （天子山）
Every session need travel by bus, and each part consist few specify beautiful attractions … and mostly walking distance 10-90min with rock broadwalk (up and down and some could be steep) . again most of the spot with different name which need our imagination to match the view and the “rock” appearance .
After few days inside the park, we visit many different spots and for me it is just still rocky mountains … but for photography with the pattern and light direction (I didn’t have chance to see any snow, misty) .. we have many oppurnity to create some pictures .
Food … amazing nice local food by the homestay owner and KFC and McD (McCafe too) available .
I stay at a homestay which I think strategy location for no special arrangement for sunrise/sunset. As this location walking distance can shoot sunrise/sunset with rocky mountains even it is not really the beautiful formation. This homestay owner is a retire teacher who also drawing, photograph … and it share his experience, view about “art” (not only drawing and photograph) … cook us a wonderful chicken soup dinner with his white wine collection (have a good sleep after that 😀 )
He has similar thought as mine .. he say .. a good artist (for photography/drawing) need 3 main “GOOD” [好]
Good View – 好景
Good food – 好吃
Good Person – 好人
He also share what he mean for landscape view and art view (大景与小景) and why do we need balance between to for his point of art … I learn a lot from he and his friend who spend >10 years on CHINA mainland landscape photography .
Overall a place need luck , skill, arrangement, experience ， stamina and ect to get this place photograph …
update 2018 June 28
from 2018 CHINA, HUNAN Photohunters tour
this is a long wait of 1.5 day, finally the moment waiting is come… we actually rush, ran , to this spot but the view keep changing for us another 1 hour ++ think everyone should be have good time here
update 2018 June 24
just got back from 2018 CHINA, HUNAN Photohunters tour
13 photographers with almost all famous brand in the world (absent of LEICA and NIKON) enjoy the boring wait and excitement of sudden misting moment
update 2016 Jan 11
update 2015 Dec 21
update 2017 Nov 24
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another Bali outing arrange by me .. name under photohunter : Bali, Indonesia
for the 6d5n , we travel the island as below show
1. Jatiluwih
– out first stop for the beautiful of the Paddy Terrace
– the Night sky is our main target for the Milky way, stary sky
update 2014 Oct 8
– cold night , look and wait for the Milky come to certain angle for the reflection
– not best quality due to light pollution and “very HIGH” ISO used
update 2014 Aug 15
– a very clear sky night … we were just back from sunset-dinner and immediate everyone chase the Milky Way again
update 2014 Aug 8
– a common tourist spot .. with beautiful dawn, sunrise available
– if luck good can see Mount Agung here
update 2014 Aug 7
OR you can view the nightsky through either link below
a. Jatiluwih Nightsky – Quicktime
3. Tanah Lot
– just here for 1 sunset .. as the water fall “season” 😀
update 2014 Oct 20
4. Kintamani, Mount Batur
another spot, everyone shouldn’t miss … highland with cold weather .. beautiful lake, volcano …. nightsky is amazing too
update 2015 March 23
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some behind the scenes photos … @https://www.facebook.com/liewwk76/media_set?set=a.10150470908649531.374816.618809530&type=3
will keep update here in next few days
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–> Tanah Lot , Bali, Indonesia | liewwk
*** 2020 March 26
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”
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 😀
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let’s have reflection outing at Sekinchan
When : 7-8th Sept 2013
Where : Sekinchan, Selangor
What : outing for reflection Sunset/Sunrise
How : email to confirm for room booking
limit to 12ppl
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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 ….
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update 2018 Jul 1
– 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
update 2013 Jul 25
update 2013 Jul 22
update 2013 April 11
– 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
update 22 March 2013
update 20 March 2013
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when I make my first visit here year back, I know I am going to love this place .. so this year I plan this place as my main visit … by choosing the right time we see more “water” in the paddy…
update 2017 Dec 8
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update 2013 Jun 13
thanks all participate my http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=1978
– we travel as below
– a tired non stop chasing sun, moon, stars .. etc
and here some pictures sharing from this beautiful place
update 2013 May 9
update 2013 March 13
update 2013 Feb 19
update 2013 Jan 17
udpate 2012 Nov 16
— will have 2012 May-Jun Nightscapte Outing available
update 2012 Oct 30
update 2012 Sept 26
update 2012 Aug 28
update 2012 Aug 22
update 2012 Aug 14
update 2012 Aug 3
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