Three Amigos

Another shot from my photo walk in old Chinatown in Pasar Glodok, north Jakarta, Indonesia. Spotted these three friends holding up the wall and watching the many passers-by. The were perched at the precipice of a nasty little "river" of questionable origins -- the water that is!

Mango Man

My wife spotted an advertisement for a phototour and thought I might be interesting in taking part. Well, it was amazingly rewarding, on several levels. While on the tour (aka photowalk), we strolled about in old Chinatown in a neighborhood of north Jakarta, Indonesia known as Pasar Glodok. It was really bright out (and hot), and I was not too pleased with what the harsh light was doing to everything around me. Not at all the ideal lighting situation for good photography. I really lucked out when I ducked in this narrow alley way and ran into this distinguished gentleman, trying to sell his mangos to passersby and trying to stay cooin the shade of the buildings on either side.

Blockade

I am a huge fan of HDR photography and processing, but I am still working to improve both my image capture and post-processing skills. Here is an image (actually seven blended photographs) I took in the Pelabuhan (Harbor) Sunda Kelapa, Indonesia. I had posted another version of this scene some weeks ago and my wife wondered if I had a horizontal version that we could print. I often shoot both horizontal and vertical shots of the same subject so had this version. I am still learning to measure/judge the dynamic range of the lighting during a shoot and to bracket exposures well enough to cover the range. The challenge in this particular scene was that the ships were continuously bobbing in the water, which is why you can see some ghosting at the upper edges of the image. Still, I like the image. This may be too saturated in color for some viewers, but that is what I intended in this case.