Tag: Borneo
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Lens-Artists Challenge – Favorite Photos of 2019
Artistic. For the last Lens-Artists Photo Challenge of 2019, we will show some of our favorite photos that we have taken during the year that are close to end.Creative. It’s always difficult to pick favorites but I like the way Patti divided her favorites into different categories, so I did the same, or almost the…
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Masjid India Kuching
The newly built one and only floating Mosque in Kuching is located on the banks of the Sarawak River, close to the newly built Harmony bridge whose shape symbolizes the balance of cultures living together in harmony.“Harmony among our different religious traditions is essential for world peace” –Dalai Lama –This is the Old State Mosque,…
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Flowers on Fridays
This time I choose to show three different types of flowers but with similar shades of color.The flower on top I believe is an anthurium, also called flamingo flower. The one above is a type of orchid but there are about 28,000 different species so I have no idea about its name.Plumeria flowers. Susan’s Flowers…
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Black & White Photography – 6
The above pictures are from the square along Sarawak River in Kuching. Every afternoon, both young and old can be seen playing with each other, many of them blowing soap bubbles, just for fun.This skilled lady I saw in Valletta here in Malta the other day. Guess why she’s looking down.Concentration! She really knew how…
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Black & White Photography – 5
Wednesday, and my fifth colorless post, inspired by Susan’s black and white photo challenge.As in my previous black and white post, I choose to show people. People in everyday life that I photographed recently when I visited the city of Kuching in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.Of these five images, there is actually only one that I’m…
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Lens-Artists Challenge – On Display
Today’s pictures are from Kuching Sunday Market that I visited recently. I’m not so happy to show headless and half people though it’s not easy to avoid when there are so many people moving around. Here you’ll find a huge variety of different kinds of fresh fruits & vegetables. Guess it was high season for…
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Sarawak People – Daily Life
“The best is yet to be” – Robert Browning –“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous” – Aristotle –“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common” -Ralph Waldo Emerson – Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia. December 2019
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Black & White Photography – 4
This is the fourth time I’ve joined Susan’s black/white photo challenge and to me it’s really a challenge, but a fun one. In last week’s b/w post I showed old vehicles but it feels more challenging to edit images of people. Choosing between these two types of editing felt a bit difficult, they are so…
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Our Precious Wildlife
Borneo Rainforest, Malaysia.
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The True Reality
“There are some four million different kind of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive” – Sir David Attenborough –“Let us develop respect for all living thing. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love” – Jane Goodall –“Ever since…
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Which Way…
This is my entry for this week’s Which Way Photo Challenge
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Harmony Bridge – Kuching
Back in Kuching and to the new foot bridge “Harmony Bridge” which connect the North with the South City. Well, I’m not back in reality but in my thoughts when I look at my pictures. I came back home with lots of images of this amazing bridge which is designed from the idea of Yin…