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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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Finally I am free to sit down for get more pictures done …
again 2017 Oct we revisit the beautiful Sichuan for Golden Sichuan , for overall we were lucky to have various different weather, view etc …
Day 1 Chengdu –> Kanding
we arrive Chengdu immediate we travel to Kanding for nearer to next destination and also ease ourself with high altitude . (~3000 masl )
whole day raining, and we do believe at higher altitude locations should be snow and we expected to see snow view tomorrow .
Day 2 Kanding – ShanMuJu
along the road we had very good view as usual, but it is just a start . the snow almost 6-10 inch thick, the roadside view still look amazing
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Day 3 ShanMuju
Our tour main target , Mount Mount Gongga (Minya Konka) Sichuan highest mountain ~7556masl … at here we got few viewpoint see it really close
– this what we saw, when we first reach to the viewpoint 1 .
update 2017 Dec 5
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before anyone can response the beautiful view, think everyone stand still for this view for ~5-10 minutes … it is good though as we shouldn’t move much at this altitude (~4500masl).
a small slope , but not easy to walk
the view of the Mount Gongga sunrise … we just WOW WOW
and the surrounding view
we walk ~1.8km for the beautiful lake .
a special view with drone
after the lovely sunrise with snow view, very soon we go to view point 2 for sunset … here have more tourist due to much easier access
Day 4 TaGong
we continue our next destination but passing by this amazing view and spend sometime here as someone wish to challenge to hike up to highest point of view which look 70-80 degree for 500 meter up 😀
the beautiful Gongga Mountain range .. we were at ~4500m asl
after the beautiful view, we heading Tagong , the cloudy day do not stop us to go wait for sunset.
it show us a amazing view of the snow peak !!! red blood color
than we hit into 2 days snow
after 2 days struggle with snow . beside the Mount Yala, there is a beautiful lovely river with mani stones
Day 6 TaiZhangGou
my favor spot for Sichuan .. very lovely and we are really close to the Mount Yala
Day 7
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Day 8 小金, 四姑娘山
– we spend quite bad weather here only one amazing sunset at a very old spot we went few years ago by horse and now we found actually we can drive up … !!!!! and the dusk full with colors
to be continued …….
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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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We had USA guests spend 9 days in Borneo from KNP, RDC, Sukau to Danum Valley … good trip, we managed to records ~250 birds and some highlights
1. Giant Pitta for few rounds
2. Bornean bristlehead
3. all Borneo Hornbills
4. Whitehead broadbills
5. Whitehead Spiderhunter
6. Large Frogmouth
7. Black Headed Pitta
8. Bornean Wren-Babbler
9. Bornean Banded Kingfisher
10. Black-throat Wren-Babbler
etc
we have tired walking and river cruise day and light …. lets start sharing some pictures that I managed to capture . (will be slowly update here due to tired to run through all the pictures )
update 2016 Oct 11
Whitehead’s Broadbill, 綠懷特黑氏寬闊嘴
– another endemic for Borneo
update 2016 Sept 25
– a bird we found in a night walk
large frogmouth, 大蟆口鸱 , Batrachostomus auritus
update 2016 Sept 19
– striped wren-babbler, 纹鹪鹛
a beautiful and singing good wren-babbler
Wren-Babbler | liewwk
Pellorneidae series: Wren-Babbler | 雀眉科: 鹪鹛 | liewwk Nature 9-2 [update 20240324]
update 2016 Sept 17
– it look different in term of color and size
Bornean Crested Jay Bird Tour Malaysia Borneo
update 2016 Sept 16
– when I first found it .. it fly like a raptor !!!! and we found 3 birds keep surrounding us and guests say .. ohhhh may I have other pitta rather than this ? 😀
– it occasion came down to ground this time
– Bornean Wren-Babbler · Ptilocichla leucogrammica
a good find on last day .. moving fast just like other Wren-Babbler
we have more birds cover for either bird watching or photography but not all birds we have pictures from guests or capture by us ..
**** we will keep this update
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both of me and Ahli were busy for whole Aug – Sept and finally have time sharing some highlights for this month 2016 Sept … with mixture of bird watching and photography guests we got some chance to record or request picture share by our guests
– happy to see few new chicks feeding by adult which mean we have more new generation of these birds 😀
Yellow Bellied Bulbul
– black–throated babbler
– Malayan Banded Pitta , Juvi female
– Marble Wren-Babbler,石纹鹪鹛 not very open picture but happy to see the family growth
– one of the beautiful endemic for Peninsular Malaysia . Mountain Peacock-Pheasant, 山孔雀雉
– very good view of the shy Marble Wren-Babbler,石纹鹪鹛
– this beautiful Rail-babbler,白眉长颈鸫, Eupetes macrocerus still show up constantly
– Garnet Pitta , 榴红八色鸫, Erythropitta granatina – another beautiful and shy bird from Malaysia ..
– Large Scimitar Babbler,大钩嘴鹛 , Pomatorhinus hypoleucos another bird that make us look left right front and back 😀
we have more birds cover for either bird watching or photography but not all birds we have pictures from guests or capture by us ..
**** we will keep this update as today just 9 sept 2016
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A 12 days liewwk Nature Photohunters to Sichuan, Qinghai – CHINA … we mostly passing by and surrounding with glass land , and out main targets are Qinghai Lake and Chaka Salt Lake … both locate Qinghai Province .
Lets start with group picture at one of our main targets/hunting ground 😀 .. Qinghai Lake & Chaka Salt Lake
So far, we only had 1 day full raining day happen at Hongyuan County which we should look for sunset , reflection for river curves ….. too bad we didn’t able to capture anything as raining non stop for 14 hours
update 2020 April 4
update 2019 Dec 12
update 2016 Aug 24
one of the most memorise sunrise ever have … we actually stuck in jam to enter this place for >30min for less than 1 hr .. and we witness this beautiful sunrise together >1000 people together sharing the same view of sunrise
update 2016 Aug 23
– Zhagana, 扎尕那 a small village locate Gansu (甘肃) … the village locate surrounding with rocky mountains giving amazing view of sunrise .. with rays in
– beautiful location where it is not tourist spot, we were happy to witness beautiful rays too at this spot
update 2016 Aug 20
– a full pano Milky way at Chaka Salt lake , with the refection and without pano head make this slikt difficult .. but finally i able to make this
update 2016 Aug 15
– Chaka Lake, Qinghai, China
when dawn everyone looking at west direction I am with another photographer attract by light from East
– our main target location, Chaka Salt Lake famous with reflection … beside full sky mirror … we target clouds reflection, sunset, milky way… and this is an extra the ray appear only for few of my shots while I try to capture the photographer in action. very abnormal as this was capture 8pm at East direction which sun is opposite of this …
update 2016 Aug 6
– misty morning at HongYuan
Conclusion of the tour , we see various different environments, (glass land, mountain, biggest lake for CHINA, salt lake, glass land mountains etc)
We walk a lot due to the design of the park, shooting at odd hours …. But every walk , reward us with beautiful view so everyone no complaint on the walking (longest one way walk is 3.8km)
update 2016 Aug 6
– one of the most clear sunrise , and it is special moment we witness this sunrise together with >1000 peoples together 😀
– Qinghai Lake , Canola flowers 油菜花
– Glassland along the travel .. this was capture in the bus while travelling
– one of the most beautiful spot .. village with rocky mountain surround . we were lucky managed to witness beautiful sunrise, sunset and rainbow here just for 1 night stay
扎尕那 （zhagana)
– woke up earlier , stand in he cold …. and before the sun came out . my gang wonder why we wait as the view just so so .. the mountain dark off , sky just clear …. …. I keep tell wait wait (with worry) I believe with the mountain shape it should have light ray shine out … and when this show up everyone wow plus the mist just keep pop out from the village …
– Chaka Salt Lake 茶卡盐湖 － main target of the outing , we spent 2 days here … lovely sunset, milky way etc ..
– mirror of the sky show reflection from the lake
– night sky even beautiful with all stars on the lake
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We have a day trip for Photography from USA …. this time, guest pick Fraser Hill for the day tour … we leave KL 515am and arrive Fraser Hill ~730am … and arrived back KL by ~8pm
We begin with Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush, Malayan Laughingthrush, Oriental Magpie-Robin and one of the main target : Malayan Hill Partridge … very soon we have capture all with extra
Large Niltava
Greater Yellownape
Red-headed Trogon
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follow by lovely Red-headed Trogon, Fire-tufted Barbet, Silver-breasted Broadbill and Sultan tit …. all allow guest capture picture within 20feet …
after lunch , we seem have more luck to have Blue Nuthatch stay long and close for us to have good pictures, and it also follow by Black-and-yellow Broadbill, Banded Kingfisher and daytime roosting Buffy Fish Owl ..
for the day trips guest managed to captured
4 Gray-breasted Partridge (Malayan)
1 Little Cuckoo-Dove
1 Mountain Imperial-Pigeon
2 Raffles’s Malkoha
1 Buffy Fish-Owl
1 Red-headed Trogon
1 Banded Kingfisher
1 Fire-tufted Barbet
2 Black-browed Barbet
3 Greater Yellownape
4 Silver-breasted Broadbill
1 Banded Broadbill
1 Black-and-yellow Broadbill
1 Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo
1 White-throated Fantail
3 Rufous-bellied Swallow
1 Sultan Tit
3 Blue Nuthatch
1 Mountain Bulbul
2 Buff-breasted Babbler
5 Mountain Fulvetta
1 Streaked Wren-Babbler
3 Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush
X Silver-eared Mesia
3 Long-tailed Sibia
2 Malayan Laughingthrush
1 Oriental Magpie-Robin
2 Rufous-browed Flycatcher
3 Large Niltava
2 Slaty-backed Forktail
1 Little Pied Flycatcher
3 Blue-winged Leafbird
2 Black-throated Sunbird
1 Streaked Spiderhunter
Number of Taxa: 34 captured and 27 lifers for guest
*** not managed to capture all birds guests capture … some pictures are not available
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sometime , we complaint we need darker … when ??? why ???
in the noon, under bright sun exposure what if we need more stop down ? and we can have option combine more ND filters e.g. 10 stops and 6 stops filter or now we have option to have single filter in 15 stops down …
e.g. under hot sun out setting for no ND is ISO100 , F2.8 (to have bokeh for some effect) , SS 1/1000
with Big Stopper or ND 3.0/10 stops ND … we can have 1s exposure .. but than the 1s may be not good enough … and what a 15 stops ND (Super Stopper) can do for us
it will give you 30s even the original shutter speed is 1/1000 … !!!!!
few eg. with Big Stopper , combine of Big Stopper and Little Stopper .. so now with single filter we can get longer exposure 😀
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We have day trip due to full schedule , original plan was going Fraser Hill but on the way.. it is tree fall down which block our way up and we make quick decision travel back to KRAU forest and may be quick one for Genting Highlands … we have total 65 species view and ~40 lifers for guest … with both Silver Breasted Broadbill and Rail Babbler clear view make the happy day .
Our reach is 9am which is slight late but we are doing very good in the morning 9am-1pm which we have 42 species and wonderful and clear view of RAIL Babbler …
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Ferruginous babbler
Whiskered treeswift
Black and yellow broadbill
Short tailed babbler
Black and red broadbill
Dark throat oriole
Long billed spider hunter
Rufous collard kingfisher
Rufous backed kingfisher
Green billed malkoha
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than we travel to Genting Highland after our quick lunch …..
on the way, our toilet stop add in 5 new birds
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Olive backed sunbird
Pied thriller
Rufous woodpecker
Pied fantail
Dark necked tailorbird
follow by another 3 hours at Genting Highland which include Awana we have 17 species
Malayan laughingthrush (chesnut crown)
Mountain leaf warbler
Snowy browed flycatcher
Black throat sunbird
Glossy swiftlet
Blue winged leafbird
Chesnut capped laughingthrush
Mountain fulvetta
Yellow bellied warbler
Silver breasted broadbill
Verditer flycatcher
Chesnut backed scimitars babbler
Hill blue flycatcher
Black-browed
Silver ear mesia
Everett’s White-eye
Peregrine Falcon
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