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| Saturday, 12-Apr-2008 12:00 |
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Jakarta Traffic - capturing the moment/hours
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Recently I have been trying to get some good shots of traffic jams in Jakarta.
Please have a look at these pix and let me know which style you think shows "bad traffic" the best.
- What is the best angle?
- Should the perspective be from the side or centred?
- Should both directions be visible?
- Is traffic coming to or going away better?
By identifying the best angles, content and situations, then I can take the baddest traffic photo!
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| Saturday, 15-Dec-2007 14:05 |
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No Swimming
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OK, so I've done this before and it's not all that funny, but here goes: Another 'No Swimming' sign in Australia where you can't actually go swimming anyway!
Funny? Well the name of this place is ... (wait for it) ... : Riverton!
(and that's actually the river in the photo too)
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| Tuesday, 16-Oct-2007 17:57 |
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Hike in forest near Bandung
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I have sore legs after going for a 16km hike/run in a forest near Bandung. Have a look at the route I plotted on Google Maps here.
The Taman Hutan Juanda national park contains an impressive waterfall and quite uniquely a network of caves built during the Dutch time and then more with slave labour during the Japanese occupation.
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| Friday, 5-Oct-2007 03:43 |
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Ugliness
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Disappearing view
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My view is disappearing FASTER! Now I can clearly see the foundations of the 2nd tower and it's right in the middle!
Click here to see how this used to look when it was green and pretty!
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| Monday, 24-Sep-2007 16:51 |
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Fengshui Forsaken
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Going, going...
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My view is FAST disappearing! Now it clear where the first tower in the new complex will go.
This building is being built by the same mob that started the Sidoarjo Mud Volcano.
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| Thursday, 9-Aug-2007 07:09 |
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Earthquake in Jakarta
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Waiting.
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Apprehension.
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At 12:04am this morning there was a 7.5 magnitude earthquake 100km from Jakarta (and 290km deep). Light fittings swung in houses on the ground; but in towers housing apartments and hotels downtown, the whole buildings swayed for quite some seconds - twice!
I immediately ran more than 10 floors down to the ground floor and outside - along with hundreds of other people.
Here are some shots showing people waiting outside. The mood was very aprehensive and many were shocked. The shake was quite frightening and not knowing at the time where the earthquake was, noone knew if this was just a pre-shock before a mighty quake or if this was the real thing.
As it turned out it was the main event and there were no after shocks - err, yet.
The quake wasn't so serious: in a metro area of 15m people nobody was hurt and nothing fell down. But it was a frightening experience anyway.
More information about the quake here.
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| Friday, 15-Jun-2007 14:32 |
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Chicken Blah
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ChickenTalk
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At Plaza Semanggi shopping centre in central Jakarta I saw this sign advertising Chicken Story.
You are probably familiar with the concept bakeries like BreadTalk and BreadStory. They're everywhere, each one seems to be a me-too and they're all so similar that I forget which one was first.
And what is the nexus between talk and stories and bread anyway?
So when I saw Chicken Story, it made me wonder if we can expect the same for ... CHICKEN?!
At least for Chicken there IS a story, a famous and frequently retold story: Why did the chicken cross the road?
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| Saturday, 2-Jun-2007 12:00 |
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BK Jakarta Update
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5 weeks later Burger King Jakarta STILL has crazy queues! Check out this queue on Friday afternoon...
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| Friday, 1-Jun-2007 18:41 |
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Platform 2 at Rzepin Station
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Afternoon sun on platform 2 at railway station in Rzepin, Poland.
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| Wednesday, 2-May-2007 12:00 |
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Hund
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Dog running in the backyard in Germany.
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