Showing posts with label pocket digital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pocket digital. Show all posts

Photographic action

Taking fab scene in row.

Photographic is a kind of art. You find a good scene with no art sense, it will lead nothing.

I recommend the following book to improve photographic skill:
Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

and
Photographic Composition

Deforestation, oil palm plantation picture

A nice view of oil palm plantation in Aceh.
In recent years, oil palm plantation has been accussed for high deforestation rate in Indonesia.
In fact, the size of rainforests area of Indonesia is decreasing, contrary to oil palm plantation that wider and wider.

More about deforestation information:
Interaction effects between economic development and forest cover determine deforestation rates [An article from: Global Environmental Change]

Picture of flower: cactaceae familia

The Cactaceae familia has four subfamilia: Pereskioideae, Maihuenioideae, Opuntioideae and Cactoideae. 

Some species in this familia are good-looking enough to display in front of our home--in a row with an orchid, adding natural taste and "endurance style".  The species is known as survivor in drought area for long period of time.

Nagan Raya's sky

Nagan Raya endowed by fertile lands, enabling its people to engange in agriculture for their main livelihood.

Five years after tsunami, there are few organizations still operate in Nagan Raya. They mostly works for enhanching sustainable livelihood as well as forest conservations.

Related reading:

Tsunami in a Time of War: Aid, Activism & Reconstruction in Sri Lanka & Aceh

Rubber garden

The photo shows the origin of your expensive car tire. It made from rubber tree, typically planted in rows using single improved seedling. In Indonesia, rubber garden can be easily found in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

The scene was taken in Jambi, Sumtara island last year.

Landscape picture of Nagan Raya, Aceh

This scene was taken in a village of Nagan Raya  Distric of Aceh. The district has resources to provide abundant rice while many families also generate income from rubber and cacao. The districts  located in the Leuser ecosystem buffer area. I note that agriculture economy moves the district to appropriate development strategy, reducing poverty and tackling forest crime.


Rehabilitation of Prambanan temple


Prambanan temple is being rehabilitated. A sequence of earthquake hit Yogyakarta areas including Prambanan temple in 27 May 2006 causing major damage and about 5000 deaths. World's society supported the reconstruction of the largest Hindu temple compound in Indonesia.

The police


I took this picture in front of US Embassy in Jakarta about a year ago. At that time, people of Indonesia showing their sympathy to thousands victims of Palestinian when Gaza attacked by Israeli military forces. Indonesian also send humanity massages to US Embassy.

Train station of Tugu

A morning scene at Yogyakarta train station. Having an overnight travel from Jakarta, you'll welcomed by old buildings and maybe a morning with clear sky hangs over like this.

The guards

The police guards US Embassy in Jakarta in a 2007 demonstration condemning the silence of US government on the Isreal's attack to Gaza causing over a thousand palestinians died.

A morning scene in Sipirok

I put a shoot using pocket digital camera of Olympus in landscape mode. I find that instead of long experience in photographic, enough photo equipment we need to find remarkable moment. A morning scene may not enough, but its still interest me.

Old jungle rubber

This is what people called about jungle rubber --a type of forest-like land use consisting high value product of rubber. Farmers in Jambi, a province in Sumatra island of Indonesia, maintain the land since it performing a support for their livelihood.

Green mosque of Berau

I prefer to use term of Green Mosque of Berau rather than other. The mosque become well-known building in the center of a rich-coal city of East Kalimantan. This well known building characterized by several strong towers, contras with surrounding areas.

At night of Demak mosque

Having tired in a trip to Cepu, we stopped by at Demak mosque of Central Java. That's fascinating moment in rainy season.