Getting ready "2nd Borneo Bird Festival" and few updates from me.

Ok, I just finish designing the new banner for the 2nd Borneo Bird Festival which going to take place on the 15th - 17th October 2010 at Sepilok Rainforest Discovery Centre Sandakan. I'm sure it gonna be a real blast for birders and photographers. There will be a  bird photography competition as well and great prizes await. Log on to www.borneobirdfestival.com for more info.

Road Show

Another thing is also happening in Sandakan is on the 9th October 2010 there will be a road show at Giant for Nikon and the Bird festival. It will be an interesting road show so be sure to visit the booth if you are happen to be in Sandakan during that time.

Meliau Range

Ok tomorrow I will be going in to Meliau Range in Telupid. It also will be with Cede's party. We will be staying at the resthouse(will let you know about it soon). I am really looking forward to get some landscapes shots there and might be some startrail if weather permiting. I heard the place have some rivers and nice scene. I'm really looking forward to get into new territory that I never visited before.

Workshop

Ok.. there will be a mini workshop soon after I got back from the trip. This will be all about landscape photography and its not for beginner. You must already know about shutter and aperture. If you still a beginner and need to learn about basic camera I suggested you to join John Kong Basic Photography workshop first. The John Kong in class workshop will continue with a weekend trip outside KK either the Tip of Borneo, island like Mantanani or the mountain. Just pick your trip destination depending on what you want to learn. My mini workshop are design for only organise in around area Kota Kinabalu only.

October Advance Mini Landscape Photography Workshop

1st October(Friday) - Mastering Waterfall and how to create saleable landscape image.

Location of workshop is Inanam Kionsom Waterfall. I purposely pick Friday so that less people in that area. Limited to 10 people. Call me or email me for subscribe. Cost RM100 per pax. Duration 4 hours.

Date TBA - Mastering Startrail

We will have to depend on the weather really for this workshop.

Date TBA - Urban nightscape.

Will be doing a Kota Kinabalu City walk. I will be tutoring about how to create and night scene travel photos.

That all for update for now. will be updating you all soon for more.

Recent Trip

Recently me and John Kong stayed for one week at Mesilau for a photography workshop for Sabah Park. Cede was only stayed with us for two nights and gone for Danum Valley. Me and John did some landscape shots while teaching the Sabah Park staff. Here are two shots for share. will be posting more soon so stay tune folks.

Penang for Nikon workshop with Cede Prudente

Me and Cede was in Penang for Nikon workshop and also for the Bripex Bridal Exibition. Cede did a talk about nature & wildlife photography during the Bripex and also at the Nikon Workshop the next day at Batu Peringgi hotel. I actually had great weekend in Penang. Me and Cede went for dinner with the Nikon Malaysia General Manager. We also had good time going around George Town with James Ling, an assistant manager of Nikon Penang. Getting to know and have dinner with Mr Kia owner of Asadi Footwear is also a great privilage. Now at the Penang International Airport waiting for flight back to Kota Kinabalu. Thanks Penang for the fantastic treat.

Night Shots: Jesselton Point

I went out again for some night shot, this time is the Jesselton Point. It is one of the oldest thing we have in Kota Kinabalu which still in use nowaday. I did a startrail shot and some other shots too.


View Startrail On Black

Sandakan Landscape

Early morning at 5:30am, cede pick me up at my hotel and head up for simsim village. We found a spot near to the school of Simsim village, setting up gear and wait. I never shoot landscapes images before using Flourescent white balance and this one was came into my suprise it came out quite good. It is all about experimenting all the settings that we have in the camera. This one I had a graduated filter on, ND8. No polarizer. Here are three images for share. Thanks to Cede for the lending some equipment. I'm not in full gear during this visit to Sandakan.

Canvas Printing in Bali

During my recent trip to Bali I found a place where we can do canvas printing at cheap price. I printed three of the Bali landscapes I took during that trip. Two of them was printed at 40"x60" size and then one was about double of the two size. It was located at Matahari shopping mall in Kuta. 40"x60" cost Rp30000 = RM11. The double size was Rp60000 = RM22.

1st Photo of Bali Seascape

It was my first fullday in Bali and I already had a sunburn. I've done few watersport today but haven't done any surfing yet. Me and the party had visited the temple on a seaside today and we waited for sunset that didn't show up. I have done some landscape shooting too and here is the 1st images just for a tease. Next tour will be visiting the area of Kintamani. Really looking forward on that. Trying to get some rest now...nite

Sunset of Kiau Valley

Recently me and John was up at Kiau to do a photography workshop. I can't just help my self doing some landscapes shooting. The stunning view of the place just captured me. Sunset was awesome! Here is the proof. Sorry for not updating my blog often. This month was a busy month for me. Will try to update again soon.

Me & John off to Kiau

Me and John will be traveling to Kiau and Bundu Tuhan which located at the foot hill of Mount Kinabalu for sharing our knowledge of photography to the people there. We will be there from 12th to 16th of August. I might not be able to entertain any email during that time and so to facebook. I will try to reply any email as soon as I'm online to internet. You may try to reach me by my mobile or sms, mobile coverage very bad there. Cheers!

Recent trip: Manila

I just got back from recent trip to Manila for the second time, this time I manage to go to the place I didn't go last time. The Ocean park was fun, which I enjoyed much. Most of my images this time was shot with the new D5000. I did a lots of video during this trip, the videos still in progress will be out as soon as I finish putting it together. There was a typhoon on he North of Philippines during that time, rain and strong wind on the second day of the trip.

Mabini street

Taking photos at Quiapo


Candles for goodluck



168 mall Divisoria



Ocean Park Manila






Seen a Nikon fan


Mt. Arayat Pampanga

The Photo trip with Luca Angeli

Recently I did a "Photo Safari" with Luca Angeli, a photographer from Italy. The trip was great, great sighting of wildlife. The trip start in Sandakan. We spend two night at the River Lodge and going out on a boat in early morning and late afternoon for river trip. We even did a night cruise search for nocturnal animal and some birds sleeping.

After Sukau Kinabatangan River, we drove to Lahad Datu and the drive in to the logging road which took us about almost 3 hours driving in to Danum Valley. That were we spend another two nights at Danum Valley. Danum Valley is very different that the Kinabatangan river. The vegetation and the terrain is different. In Danum Valley we do alot of trekking. Leech sock is very usefull here. We did a night drive as well in Danum.

Photo editing during the trip.

This picture was taken during a photo trip with Luca Angeli from Italy. I normally do photo editing straight away taken from the trip on the same day. But only to the selected best. Make back up of the photos, external HDD and laptop HDD but I usually have two external hardisk during any photography trip put in different begs.

Note: That is Kozo next to me. Helping Cede for the Japanese filming crew

Just got back

Now I'm back at home, bringing back more than 2k photos from this time trip. I have to spend time for post process of these images. One of my favorite shot I manage to capture was this macaque drinking from the river water. will be posting more soon.

Now in DVFC

Today we arrived at Danum Valley, we been having so much fun shooting at Sukau Kinabatangan river. For a preview here is two photos. More soon...

Recent Climb of Kinabalu

Alright...I don't say it a hard climb but it is for some people. The night before was raining heavily and lucky that it stopped that 2am. I climb to the top several times and some of the climb was just at the rest house or at the Sayat-sayat hut. It is well known among the mountain guide that this time of a year was the coldest time. Strong wind can make you give up. So cold that makes my lip crack dry.Will be going up again in the future.

The Low's Peak



Above everything


Misty day


The Low's Squirrel, Named after Sir Hugh Low