Journal of a Tukang Potret

Pictures from dissemination of Coral Reef know-how and conservation program to high school students in Bontang. This is a cooperation between Badak Diving Club Bontang and Terangi Foundation Jakarta.

A real place for children! Bring your kids there and I guarantee they will enjoy every second they had out there.
The concept is simple, they invite some companies to built the miniature of those companies facility and then, offer the children to perform role playing activities using those facilities. The children could choose to play as fire fighters, steward, car driver, nurse, plant operators, ice-cream makers and many more!
Very very highly recommended place for your children.

Pictures during my latest trip (07 - 09 March 2008) to Kong Beng cave, pre historic cave and Batu Aji cave in Bengalon and Muara Wahau county.

This was my first off-road with my D-Max. The route is compound - Jl. Flores - Indominco access road - place of nowhere More pictures to come!

A collection of my converted into B/W pictures. I used various PS actions that convert color pictures to B/W that I found at www.atncentral.com.

Report of my latest business trip to capital of Yemen: Sana'a on November 2007. Visit duration was 2 days but I had half day extra on the day I came.

Started with one in front of my house

My old car

I got these pictures from http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm
Speechless ... I can't find any word that can match the quality of those pictures. Is the emptiness of air have influence here?
I will be very happy if NASA give me the camera which used to take these pics
Dreaming again ...

View of Bontang and the aerial view of area between Bontang and Balikpapan. Taken during one lucky trip where the weather was very clear.

I love to shoot macro very much! It's amazing to see the detail of tiny animals such bugs, spider, fly and many others ...

View of Bontang from the high Fortunately, I and some friends was able to get permit from YABIS, a private school foundation in Bontang, to go to the roof of their newly developed 6 storeys building. And our luck too to have good weather and clear blue sky, helping us to get clean and nice colors in the view ...

Some of my shots during Titi DJ 'concert' in Bontang to celebrate Independence Day on 17 August. I try not to use any camera flash, and maximize my Dynax 7D ability to produce low noise pictures at high ISO setting (I used 800 and 1600) and anti-shake feature to damp the vibration caused by shutter press and low speed shot (sometimes I just got 0.25 sec).
It was very hard to take good pictures in those circumstances. However, I managed to have following pictures that I think nice enough Enjoy ...

Every muslim new born baby has obligated their parents to pay 1 or 2 goat(s) depend on the sex of the baby. Two goats for male, and one goat for female. This ceremonial called as tasmiyah or aqiqah.
Recently, my liqo's friend Sujito invite me and other members of the liqo to attend tasmiyah of her new baby Nihayya who is born 5 days before.

Photolography of my latest trips during my annual leave this year (2007). Began with report of my sister-in-law wedding ceremony at Caraka Loka (near Plaza Senayan), continued with Seaworld, Gelanggang Samudera (where we watched various of fishes and other sea creatures, attraction of sea lions, dolphins and beluga/white whale). Then we went to Bandung my hometown, Garut and stay at Kampung Sampireun for one night. The last place was the most unforgottable session of my holiday. It's a must have resort for everyone!

Pictures I took during my visit to Jordan for training purposes. I stay in Hotel Radisson SAS at Amman for 6 days. I just have very little time to spare for visiting places, but Alhamdulillaah I could manage to go to Petra, Dead Sea, Ashabul Kahfi cave and Jabal Nebo.