Partly fallen dry...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sungai Lembing II
Well, you've seen already a few photos of Sungai Lembing...
I wrote another post about this town - or village rather - a while back. But seeing that visit was short and didn't include many photos of the town itself, I wanted to go back there.
Below another set of photos, which I think, if you look at them in one go, reflect the atmosphere quite well.
It's desolate.
I didn't do my best not taking pictures with people in it: the people are simply not there.
Well, not totally true, there are people - as you can see on some photos - but it seems to be only a handful, which adds to the sense of 'strange'.
A strange sense, like walking onto an abandoned movie set, still inhabited by some left behind extras, to please the one tourist per month who stumbles in by accident.
Perhaps that feeling is amplified by the houses itself, because the wood fronts are backed up by a lot of tin plating, creating the impression the fronts are only for decoration. And many of those houses are abandoned and empty. Striking for instance - as you can see on 'Redundant' and some of the photos below - is the lack of motorcycles or cars parked in front of those houses. That's a rare sight.
However, there's still some building activity going on, so perhaps Sungai Lembing is slowly reinventing itself.
I must admit though that the biggest part of this village doesn't seem to be inventing anything. It struck me mostly as a fading reflection of what once was...
Click on the photos for the bigger version...
I wrote another post about this town - or village rather - a while back. But seeing that visit was short and didn't include many photos of the town itself, I wanted to go back there.
Below another set of photos, which I think, if you look at them in one go, reflect the atmosphere quite well.
It's desolate.
I didn't do my best not taking pictures with people in it: the people are simply not there.
Well, not totally true, there are people - as you can see on some photos - but it seems to be only a handful, which adds to the sense of 'strange'.
A strange sense, like walking onto an abandoned movie set, still inhabited by some left behind extras, to please the one tourist per month who stumbles in by accident.
Perhaps that feeling is amplified by the houses itself, because the wood fronts are backed up by a lot of tin plating, creating the impression the fronts are only for decoration. And many of those houses are abandoned and empty. Striking for instance - as you can see on 'Redundant' and some of the photos below - is the lack of motorcycles or cars parked in front of those houses. That's a rare sight.
However, there's still some building activity going on, so perhaps Sungai Lembing is slowly reinventing itself.
I must admit though that the biggest part of this village doesn't seem to be inventing anything. It struck me mostly as a fading reflection of what once was...
Click on the photos for the bigger version...
M9Tether
So yes, the observant reader will have noticed I am using a Leica M9 now.
I will get back to writing about that, because it has been quite an experience so far. It's difficult to stay objective about this camera seeing the expense, but I do have my thoughts about it.
Leica didn't provide any software for shooting the M9 tethered (tethered shooting is when you connect the camera to a computer, whereby software enables you to operate the camera remotely and adds the option to also operate the camera manually - still connected to the computer - and show the photos you shoot immediately on the computer screen).
So I decided to write my own software.
It's been online for a while, it's tested a bit, and it seems to work quite well.
It's written for Windows 7, but also works on Vista (note the exception on Vista - I'm currently trying to get in touch with Leica about that one) and it does work in conjunction with Lightroom if you set up an auto import folder.
So if you stumble onto this blog and own or use an M9 and you want tethered shooting, have a look here:
http://www.mymymyohmy.com/software/m9tether.html
I will get back to writing about that, because it has been quite an experience so far. It's difficult to stay objective about this camera seeing the expense, but I do have my thoughts about it.
Leica didn't provide any software for shooting the M9 tethered (tethered shooting is when you connect the camera to a computer, whereby software enables you to operate the camera remotely and adds the option to also operate the camera manually - still connected to the computer - and show the photos you shoot immediately on the computer screen).
So I decided to write my own software.
It's been online for a while, it's tested a bit, and it seems to work quite well.
It's written for Windows 7, but also works on Vista (note the exception on Vista - I'm currently trying to get in touch with Leica about that one) and it does work in conjunction with Lightroom if you set up an auto import folder.
So if you stumble onto this blog and own or use an M9 and you want tethered shooting, have a look here:
http://www.mymymyohmy.com/software/m9tether.html
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Not that old...
More Sungai Lembing, with a little bit more post processing...Click on photo for bigger version...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Beach at night II
Part of the beach on the east coast at night, this time with some moonlight added... long exposure... Click on photo for bigger version...
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Contemplating...
I'm still quite amazed by the ability of cameras to capture color during the night... I know how it works technically, but the simplistic idea that a camera is basically like a human eye sits in the way... It was dark out there, you could hardly see the sea, so the guy on the rock wasn't enjoying the view that much...
The exposure took about 6 seconds, which means I was kinda fortunate with this shot, cause rock-guy could have spoiled it by moving too much...
Part of the beach on the east coast at night, long exposure...
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The exposure took about 6 seconds, which means I was kinda fortunate with this shot, cause rock-guy could have spoiled it by moving too much...
Part of the beach on the east coast at night, long exposure... Click on photo for bigger version...
Friday, January 21, 2011
Beach during the day
Part of the beach on the east coast during the day... Click on photo for bigger version...
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Beach at night
Part of the beach on the east coast at night, long exposure... Click on photo for bigger version...
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Charged sky
It's mainly patience required, which I do have, but the mosquitos make patience less than a virtue... Getting the hang a bit of these flashes though, so guess there will be more in future, despite the bumps on my feet... ...a fairly heavy crop, 1/15 sec handheld...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Treehugger
I call him (or perhaps her?) Theodore... he's been hanging around the Frangipani's (quite literally) for hours and he has the quite cute ability to change colour... some kind of chameleon I suppose... Click on photo for bigger version...
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