4 naked girls at pantai pasir putih

this place
if i really really remembered correctly is called pantai pasir putih
or white sand beach
again at lake toba lo =x





shot 4 naked girls there >.< nakedness ="x" href="http://s292.photobucket.com/albums/mm22/herbertjohan/June%202008/Toba%20Trip/?action=view&current=Toba-29.jpg" target="_blank">




















this is the pic that i was supposed to post yesterday...
fisheyed it when we were leaving the batak houses area there =x

B1 in action ! =x

the house of the Bataks

i wanna start off with yesterday's (29th) sunset
it's been sometime since i could witness a sunrise / sunset since i'm back here in singapore
last night, i took a short break and off i went again to my fav spot
the place i call
level 22 :D



my 28-105mm lens is with willy
so without any other "tele" lens
i took my 100mm macro with me
and am still amazed with its sharpness till today
despite having fallen down on the floor from my waist down level
plus the numerous dust the lens has collected within the lens itself which Canon has quoted me that they'd had to disassemble the entire lens to get them cleaned and it's still not a confirm 100% clean




from my fav lens
the 10-22mm XD

and finally
something different from the usual views



this shot is entitled ".poking the sun." lol !



okay
now back to my toba trip entries






this is the house of the batak long time ago
why i've never gotten bored of visiting this place and yes i definitely will visit lake toba again is because apart from the amazing views the lake give, i'm fond of the cultural and historical values of the place too

toba, a short form of tanah orang batak asli (the native land of the bataks) are where the bataks live (obviously) and despite modernization, these people still manage to save a lot and a lot and a lot of their cultural and historical values among themselves



inside their house

long ago, you know
during those times of the kings still
there were no spring bed or whatever kinda bed
these house will house the entire family
meaning i a guy get married
they'll stay there
and if they got kids
the kids will stay there also
and when the kids get married
they will all stay there also
unless those rich one then they'll go make another house la

so i was told, that when u know
the couples wanna have ***, they'd like go to the farm...and make love there
seriously !
i was told like that !







the entrance to the house is definitely eunique
they are designed in such a way that you'll have to bow down when u enter the house coz their door is small and short
this is to show respect to the owners of the house
no matter who you are whether king or whoever la, they'll still have to do so
beautiful culture kan ?



one of the many design on the house




see on the bottom right of the house ?
got macham those kandang (cage) right ?
that one damn power

that's the place where they will put their kambings, kerbaus, babi, and even their prisoner !
very long story
but another amazing thing is this
the bataks speak damn politely
seriously damn politely
they don't even call the babi - babi
instead
all these "animals" got labels

b1 - anjing
b2 - babi
b3 - kerbau
b4 - itik
b5 - ayam

at first i was quite curious as we cross the streets..there'll be retaurants with signs

"B1 SOLD HERE"

yes..the bataks eat dogs



a B3


and us posing



>.<




more tomorrow !

very random shots from Toba

a little update of what i've been busy with lately :

well firstly of course editing pictures...it kinda made me felt as if there's nothing else i could be doing other than that really
really lots of pictures to be processed
see...all my pictures have to somehow one way or another go through photoshop first before being classified as finished pictures
there's this thing with me now that doesn't really give me the satisfaction of shooting without editing them

another thing am busy with now is the worry of the upcoming art festival for the school
have i said that i've been appointed president for my school's photography club ?
well, this coming august there'll be at least two events to worry about there
one will be our annual general meeting where by then only will i be officially become the president and another outing session to get the new members to bond with us
the real worry is the art festival this coming september
i know still very far away
but apparently lots of things to be confirmed by now
so far, bryan, my events and project director had sealed the deal with nikon to sponsor us photo booth for us to exhibit our pictures at
so then i called up canon this morning to ask whether will there be any discounts if we buy a printer under our club's name since the other time they had came over our school before to give a basic photography workshop and pretty much sponsored our uniforms
the talked lead to another sponsorship from them
now they want to loan us another printer so we'll have two and will sponsor us photo frames
how great is that ?
i think it really is damn awesome la
a small club like us can have the two leading camera companies sponsoring us at the same time in a very small part we will be playing for the entire art festival in school

am busy with lots of other things also right now that i'm too lazy to think about
it just seems that there's very room for rest for me now though i just took a 4 hours nap just now =x
it kinda feels good to be this busy
at least i won't be bored siting at home doing nothing

i just hope that i can handle all these together with my school work well



anyway
very random shots from my toba trip,









this is like totally random la
i was using arifin's fisheye lens and just grab a shot from the window
and i quite like this though...well...at least it didn't end up in my trash bin










ali-erna-arifin


more nicer photos tomorrow =x

for now i have to go read my 25 pages of notes for a quiz tomorrow.....

the toba mystery

about the SOLD $1500 thing
i went down again yesterday to ask clearly on how did it actually go about
so apparently the person interested in my picture the day before wanted to pay and take the picture away there and then
but since the promise was to exhibit the picture for both days
saturday and sunday
that won't be allowed
unfortunately then the person had left to Genting Highlands but called again yesterday to say that she will get it when she's back to singapore
so hopefully she do call d
>.<











introducing the cast for my toba trip
from left to right -
kempes, ali, erna, arifin and me myself and the camera


i was pretty much sick for most of the days that i was there but was worst when i had just got there...i spent pretty much the first evening till morning sleeping sleeping and sleeping
it was not until noon the day after we reached that we began our journey out to shoot

anyway
during one of the nights there
i was awake, well like usual
i remembered it was around 2 a.m.
and i looked up from the cottage we stayed from and said to myself
OM GOD
SO MANY STARS

"KEMPES...TOLONG AMBILIN TAS KAMERA GW DONK !"
"EH...SAMA TRIPOD SEKALIAN "


he was in the room ma
so i asked kempes to help me take my camera bag out and the tripod at the same time


so i began setting up



first shot

"BANG"







not bright enough
means have to put longer exposure

first shot was around 15 - 20 mins i think


2nd shot


"BANG "




okay..not so bad
let's try another one


3rd shot

"BANG"

something funny in the shot
AND OFF i ran back



this is the edited version of the 3rd shot

in actual case
the uneditted one shows this



wtf ?

there are sources of light form the lake ?
plus
i think that's one ship in the picture lor
which i couldn't remembered seeing at all

the next day i showed kempes what i saw
the ship
and he said...

"mana ada kapal kemaren"
"loh...kok bisa gitu yaa..."

" where got ship yesterday "
" ...why can like that..."



okay
one last shot





lol

panning of arifin panning erna running

lol !

ok more tomorrow

3 places

heylow people !
today i is very damn happy !!!

firstly,
yeah...today is the enchanting indonesia thing !



the event at orchard road just outside takashimaya
and like i said the other time...one of my pictures were confirmed to be exhibited but apparently after showing a few more of my pics, one more got accepted again

so now i got like two pictures there la





=D

okay why i so happy ?
though i haven't really ask the person in charge if it's really true yet
but from what i saw....right underneath the picture on the left side one..the one Rames said my best pic ever one...
got the word

SOLD
$1500

YESH !
and that's what's been putting this smile endlessly from the moment i saw that till now

the event will last till tomorrow
and i'll pretty much be there the whole day tomorrow
from may be 2 - 3 pm till i think the event finish
depends see how first =x


anyway
after visiting enchanting indonesia for a bit just now
i accompanied willy a.k.a banet to finally go buy a dslr camera for himself
he then bought the canon 450d

after that he asked if wanna go esplanade area shoot around
and i followed
when we finally got to reach esplanade
just nice today got the singapore ndp rehearsals
so we shot a bit also



-the black knights-
which later i mistakenly said to my fren the dark knights =x



okay
more of enchanting indonesia and the black knights fotos soon XD

a few pics from my Toba Trip
the first few pics i shot


















okay i gotta go sleep
long day again tomorrow
bye

Brian and Deborah - the favs last part

MIA a few days again d...
been busying myself with games and movies lately =x
re-watched friends and now finish again already
quite a break i needed quite much from all the editing and bout the blogskin is :(
what i had in mind i think a bit too hard for me to tackle...so am still finding ways to do it the easier way
so will definitely take some time

enchanting indonesia event tomorrow
2 of my pictures will be exhibited :D

quite a few things in my head right now
lots to settle

SIM photography club stuff
school stuff
and my own editing stuff

anyway,
the last part of the wedding d












really like this !





ok finish

coming up next !
something i've been waiting to edit also...!




of late, i've been shooting randomly at school, a bit of street photography in little india and chinatown and a visit to changi broadwalk.
more shooting coming up this sunday !

Brian and Deborah - the favs part two

hmm...like i twitted...i was creating the new blog skin and well so far...my first draft of ideas are done so now is currently in the development stage just now and then i realized that what i had in mind will like seriously take some time...thus, i'll have to postpone the making to when i'm free-er again.
decided to start it last night simply because i wanted to get a break from all the editing and stuff

anyway,
the favs part two :)




this might be very well the very last picture i'll be posting with this frame

new frame for my pics will be from the pic below :)










this was actually the very last shot of the that day then XD










okay...
may be one last part tomorrow ! :D