Shadow #005: C.C.

JAGAT FOTOGRAFI is participating in Shadow Shot Sunday.

Faces in The Crowd: Laughter

Faces in the crowd, they say, is a fascinating subject for the study of human nature. Photography makes it all possible.

This is JAGAT FOTOGRAFI's participation in this week's Photo Scavenger Hunters.

Photo Essay: The Barongsai Story

Hello, children! My name's Barongsai. I'm a lion. My ancesstors are from China. They were born about 2,300 years ago. They are pretty old, are they?



Yes, I look fierce. But look at my eyes ... You see ... I'm friendly.



That's why children like you adore me ..., do you?



By the way, I like eating envelopes that contain money, you see. They are called "Lay See" or "Huang Pao". Yummy! Feed me that ..., and I'll dance for you.

Monochrome Shadow: Reaching The Unreachable

JAGAT FOTOGRAFI is participating in Shadow Shot Sunday and Monochrome Monday. Please check out the links to see other participants' photos.

Monochrome Shadow (Shadow #005)

Participating in:
Shadow Shot Sunday &
Monochrome Monday

Please follow the link to check other participants' photos.

Street Snapshot: Obamania

Photo Exploration # 31: Steely Cold

As cold as steel?

Photo Exploration # 28: Homo Urbanicus 01

What is homo urbanicus?

Homo urbanicus is a type of human species (homo sapiens) who live in a special kind of environment of dense human-made structures commonly called the city.

In many ways homo urbanicus are not very much different from homo sapiens, but they do have their own unique traits. They, for example, are so used to being encased (enclosed?) in structural limitations that they see these structures as being a normal part of their existence. In fact, they love these structures so much that they think they can't live without them: They homes are typically small, cramped structures where they put a tube window called television to help them see the "real" wild world. When they are not working, they can sit for hours in front of this tube marvelling at the outside world. Most of their jobs, by the way, are conducted in walled structures called "office" - a place where they spend more than half of their lifetimes to earn their lives/living/livelihood. When they get bored with home and office work, they "go out". But their outings are not really outings. They usually go into another kind of walled structures called "malls," "movie theaters" or any other similar structures where they can get entertained.

Well, this short prose may not be about photography per se, but at least it's an attempt to verbalize the experience of the picture.

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Text and picture by Eki Qushay Akhwan

Photo Exploration # 27: Self Portrait

In the world of art, self portrait is often defined as an attempt by an artist to depict oneself in his/her own work of art. This depiction can be an exploration of the artist's own pysche or just a self modeling.

Many artists of different media have done one kind of self portrait or another. Although the making of self portrait is not new (ancient Egyptian of the 14th century BC are known to have practiced this), the real self portrait in the sense of identifiable self-portrait "that is a separate painting,[and] not an incidental part of a larger work" is often considered by many not to begin until the fifteenth century with the work of Jean Fouquet(Self Portrait, c. 1450).

Photo Exploration # 26: Hong Kong Airport Roof Structure

I took this photo when we had a stop over in Hongkong on our recent trip to the United States. There are two things that fascinated me about this airport: The roof structure and its optimal use of natural lighting.

As I said before, I somehow have a special affinity to geometry. Subjects with geometrical shapes always fascinate me.

Photo Exploration # 11: A Window View

Street Photography # 2: Beauty's Mirror Deep

Street Photography # 1: Rainy Day

Photo Exploration # 6: Watch Where You Look

Photo Exploration #4: Light and Geometry

Photography is about light: How we respond to light, how light falls on objects, how it creates illusions of space and depth, and how we capture it on our medium.

Text and picture ©Eki Qushay Akhwan – http://jagat-fotografi.blogspot.com/

Photo Exploration # 3: Shadows, Light, and Textures

In photography, shadows, light, and texture are always interesting elements with their own visual impacts. We don't need to go far to find them. We pass by them everyday, often ignore them for their "ordinariness", and - as a result - miss the invaluable photo opportunities they often present. Exploration, as I said earlier, is about looking carefully and discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Here is my third post on the exploration of the day to day phenomenon that we pass by in our daily life experiences: Light, shadows, and texture. I took this photograph at the parking lot of my office building one sunny late afternoon when the warm, directional light striked ever so beautifully and touched my mind's eye and moved my finger to press the shutter.

Photo Exploration #1: Nature and Geometry

As I said in the previous post, I feel that it was necessary for a photographer or photography enthusiast to keep honing his/her sensitivity to the visual stimuli around him/her. One way to do it is by always having a camera at his/her disposal and exploring the environment closest to him/her, e.g. home, place of work, the streets he/she passes by everyday, etc.

Our daily environments may look ordinary and uninteresting because we are so used to them. However, if we really look and observe, I am sure there are a lot of hidden visual treasures that we can discover. Here is the first of what I hope to be a series of regular posts on this blog of my visual exploration of the near and ordinary - of places that I pass and see everyday.

These windows and the glowing leaves of "ketapang" tree in front of my office complex got my attention one sunny afternoon. The first thing that moved me about this scene was the glowing leaves and the hard shadows that fell on the glass windows. It's an intinctive shot. I like the rigid geometric lines of both the windows and the shadows and the "flowing" natural lines of the leaves. I explored the scene from different angles, trying to find the best composition I could get that combine the natural beauty and the beauty of the geometric lines. This photograph has one of the angles that I think best captured my vision of harmony between nature and nurture, that of leaves and tree branches and the man-made architectural geometry.

Text and picture copyrights ©Eki Qushay Akhwan, all rights reserved.