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Hi guys! So Sony Malaysia’s biggest annual photography workshop, Alpha Super Workshop is coming up next week on the 5th and 6th of November 2016. I’ll be speaking about ‘Inspiring Landscapes of Lofoten & Iceland’ on the last day of the workshop.
If you interested to join, more details on the event page: http://bit.ly/AlphaSuperWorkshop2016. Look forward to seeing you guys there!
A short trip of 4 days and 3 nights to Bromo Tengger Semeru National park, particularly to photograph the majestic Mount Bromo, an active volcano in the part of Tengger massif, East Java, Indonesia. It was an unplanned trip, a quick chat with Azmi, a friend of mine, then we realized there is an airfare promotion to this location. But we realized that we had to sacrifice the milky way due to full-moon period. Hey, that’s a reason to go back again yeah? 🙂
23/3 – Wednesday evening : Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2). Meeting up with the team. From left, Azmi, Jemang, Pak Zahar & yours truly.
While waiting for the departure, a close look of the FE 24-70 f/2.8 G-Master paired with Sony A7SM2. Ain’t she a beauty? 🙂
24/4 – Thursday morning : Our flight delayed for over an hour so we arrived in Surabaya airport around 1am. We met Pak Irsam, our local guide for this trip. It was then a long 4-5 hours drive from Surabaya city to Bromo Tengger Semeru National park. Our eyes couldn’t take it anymore so everyone fell asleep except for Pak Irsam himself because he got to drive.
A few hours later, we arrived to the national park just at around sunrise. We missed the blue hour but we were greeted with beautiful sea of clouds! Here’s my Sony A7RM2 and the FE 24-70 f2/.8 GM in action. The other camera was running on timelapse of the volcano mountains.
We wrapped our shooting at this first location with a group-photo-selfie and a cup of teh halia (ginger tea).
The remaining of sunrise colours that morning. The blanket of clouds partially covering Cemoro Lawang. Cemoro Lawang is a very small hamlet north-east of Mount Bromo (East Java), Indonesia with the altitude of 2,217 meters above sea level.This hamlet is a part of Ngadisari Village, Sukapura in the Probolinggo Regency.
Frame-grab from my timelapse sequence. Absolutely magnificent view when the stormy clouds came into the scene.
Our next location is the crater of Mt. Bromo. To be honest, I didn’t expect a horse ride which was arranged by Pak Irsam. It’s around 1 km distance from the car park up to the crater so a horse ride definitely ease the journey. Photo below is a courtesy from Pak Zahar’s camera. 🙂
Anyway, I thought the horse ride would take us all the way up to the crater, but I was wrong. The ride stops at the stairways then we had to climb it ourself and it was a pretty steep climb. Had to stop few times to catch some breath!
Here’s the stairways and abam Jemang at one of the many pit-stop we had to make before reaching the peak.
The crater of Mt. Bromo and its constantly belches white sulfurous smoke.
A quick selfie with Jemang and Azmi. Too bad Pak Zahar didn’t make it to the top because he could not stand the heavy sulfur smoke.
24/3 – Thursday morning : Our second day starts as early as 2.00am. Our next location is Penanjakan 1, which happens to be the most famous viewpoint in the national park. It’s located approximately about 1 hour drive but its not your ordinary drive. It was a really bumpy drive even on a 4×4 vehicle. Not recommended for those who suffers back-pain etc. We reached Penanjakan 1 around 3.00am and the parking area is already looks like a night market. The place is filled with lots of tourist!
So after got dropped by our driver, we then hike up to the viewpoint which located around 500 meters from the parking area. Pak Irsam showed us where to set our tripod and luckily the front seat is not yet taken. We then setup all our gears and waited patiently for the sunrise. It gets pretty cold sometimes but thanks to down jacket and a neck-warmer, I’m all covered.
Here’s a photo taken around 3.30am. As you can see, the light trails down in the caldera is from all the 4×4 vehicle, transporting tourist from Ngadisari village to Penanjakan 1. Better be early to grab the front seat!
After few hours waiting and shivering in the cold weather, the sun is about to rise. Here’s a panorama of the blue hour taken with Sony A7RM2 + FE 24-70 f/2.8 GM lens. Click on the photo to view in large.
When I saw the blue hour, I thought to myself, this could be a pretty amazing sunrise and as the sun progressed higher, the mesmerizing colours starts to appear. We, landscape photographers express this moment as “the magic hour”. Check out behind the scenes photo below taken with Sony A5100.
As you can see, the sun rose slightly to left of Mt. Bromo. But the strong colours did reflects all the way to the volcano hence the final result below. I present to you….”When Earth Meets Sky” a panoramic image generated from 8 vertical shots taken with Sony A7RM2 + FE 24-70 f/2.8 GM lens. I just had to take panos because I wanted to capture everything for this shot. Final resolution for this pano is 12,600px wide!
My other camera, Sony A7SM2 was running on timelapse mode and managed to capture the beautiful sunrise display changing rapidly. We waited for quite sometimes and I when I was about to pack all my gears, I saw this view of “The Great Mountain” of Mahameru standing tall behind Mt. Bromo.
Our next destination is to the Savannah Field. The place is actually a field of grass surrounded by the hills and is also one of the attraction when visiting the national park. But we encounter some problem when we are on our way to the location. It rained the night before so the track road gets a bit wet and muddy. Our 4×4 driver gets a bit clever and thought he could get through the muddy road. But in the end, he got us all stucked!
We had to abandoned our 4×4 and wait for another truck to pass by to get help. Turns out there were few other trucks that got stucked too.
After that, we continue our journey to Savannah Field. Its just a short drive to reach there. But we did not go all the way in as Pak Irsam took us to one of the best viewpoint (I guess) available in the park. It looks a little bit like the famous Dolomites in Italy. Except there is no huge mountains in the background. But I guess I can call this as Asia’s Dolomites…
And of course, a compulsory group shot. Credit goes to our guide, Pak Irsam. 🙂
After spending a few hours in the field, we head back to our hotel, Cemara Indah for breakfast and rest. The best thing about our hotel is, the view itself is facing Mt. Bromo. We had our sunset shooting just from the hotel lookout point. Here’s my camera running on timelapse mode.
Jemang and Pak Zahar admiring our hotel view. Azmi is out of the frame as he was standing slightly to the left of this photo. I guess he gets the best composition, or same.
This session wrapped our short visit to Mt. Bromo. The next day before checking out, we went out in the morning for quick shoot in Ngadisari Village. But, nothing much to share so I just skipped that. 🙂
Thank Sony Malaysia for the opportunity to shoot with the new FE 24-70 f/2.8 G-Master lens on this trip. The new lens has successfully kept my ultra wide angle in the bag most of the time. 🙂
I hope everyone enjoy this post and hopefully it will inspire you to get out and shoot. Feel free to share and spread the love for landscape photography!
Until my next post, assalamualaikum wr wbt. 🙂
Hi everyone! Hope you guys are doing well. On 4th November 2015, I was invited to join a trip together with Sony Malaysia team and a handful of Media representatives to Melbourne, Australia to try out the new Sony A7RII, Sony A7SII and Sony RX100IV. The trip was fully planned, organized & executed by Sony Malaysia team itself. The mission is to discover Melbourne’s hidden moments with the new cameras.
During our short 4 days in Melbourne, we stayed at The Crossley Hotel which is located about 1km from the Federation Square. Our journey starts with a quick visit to St Patrick’s Cathedral, Shrine of Remembrance and Docklands, Mornington Peninsular, Aschcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens, Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Gold Museum & Mine Tour, Ballarat. On our last day, we had a cruise dinner along the famous Yarra River.
It was a simple point and shoot trip, no serious landscape photography involved. I barely get my tripod out for action as most of the time we were shooting handheld. :p
Anyway, I think the objective of this trip is achieved because all the Media representatives seems to be enjoying the new camera. Thank you Sony Malaysia.
Last week I was invited to join the Sony A7RII regional launch in Shangri-La’s Sentosa Resort in Singapore.
I was officially introduced as Sony’s Regional Ambassadors for Sony South East Asia together with another 11 amazing photographers during the event. It such an honour to be representing Malaysia for this programme and probably, the youngest on the stage. 🙂
The event venue is fantastic. The hotel room is really nice, great food and friendly staff.
I was tasked to give a short presentation regarding my landscape photography work to some of the medias. It was a good experience for me. 🙂
I had the privilege to shoot with the new Sony A7R Mark II. I have planned earlier to take the new camera to the field, so I flew directly to Sabah right after the event concluded.
Thank you Sony South East Asia & Sony Malaysia for giving us such a pleasant experience throughout this event! 🙂
For more info about the programme, check out link below:
Hi everyone! So on this post I would like to share on behind the scenes of my Mangku Sakti Waterfall shooting. This waterfall is located near Sembalun village in Lombok tengah.
By far, this is the hardest place to reached during my Lombok trip. We had to go 3km off-road in a non-4wd vehicle and at about 2km we had a punctured tire, so we have to continue to walk the remaining 1km and believe me, it’s not an easy walk either!
After about 45 minutes of trekking up and down the hill, we reached the entrance to the waterfall. From there, it’s another 20 minutes of trekking to reached the waterfall! *Sigh*
Well, this is what we do, what we love to do as a landscape photographer. The harder it gets to reached to a location, the more excites we got! Although its pretty tiring! Lol.. :p
Here’s the final image….
Until my next post then..Assalamualaikum 🙂
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