Upacara 17an di Gunung Beratus, Kutai Barat

Mulanya saya bertemu om Ipul di samarinda, kami singgah sebentar sembari menunggu Arman bersama Samarinda Backpacker. Tujuan kami sebenernya adalah Taman Nasional Gunung Beratus di kutai barat, Kalimantan Timur. Satu provinsi sih sama Balikpapan tapi menuju kesana bikin sakit panta* hehe. Menuju kesana harus menyebrang di Kutai Kertanegara alias Tenggarong, menyebrang menggunakan kapal klotok. Semenjak jembatan Tenggarong roboh, penduduk menggunakan jasa ini. Satu motor diharga 5000 rupiah, terhitung murah, layaknya harga naik taksi di Balikpapan. Menyebrang hanya 15 menit. Sebelum menuju ke Kutai, kita mampir ke rumah Arman di Kota Bangun. "Biasanya satu jam setengah dari Tenggarong ke rumahku" katanya. Kenyataannya kami pergi dari jam setengah 1 dan tiba jam 3 pagi, memang sih dijalan si Arman sambil berburu gitu makanya agak lama. Untungnya terbayar dengan kasur yang empuk dirumahnya :D. 

Taking The Moon~ #EnglishVersion2

These days, my friends and I (our group called Light Painters) were discussed about eclipse full moon and it was getting special because the eclipse became red color. It was phenomena that the light of sun be deflected by the atmosphere of the earth. Actually we focused about where we took and how we took the great pictures of the eclipse.

Before that day, one of us told how beautiful the moon was! I still at home and suddenly picked my camera up. Usually, I take photos of the moon with slow speed setting because I want to see the moon with other background or sweetness like trees, building, or rooftop. I used high of ISO, low exposure
and diafragma. But if I take the moon only, there are always too much lights from the moon (I always forget that the subject i take is source of the light --.--). So, they told me if I want to take the moon only, I had to set my camera with high speed setting like reverse of slow speed.

ISO 200; f/11; 1/100 sec

ISO3200; f/5; 1/5 sec

ISO 3200; f/8; 1/10 sec

Unfortunately, the day that the moon was getting red, was cloudy and became heavy rain. So, we canceled our plan and just enjoyed that nite at Puncak Cafe.

Explore and Hunting Together in Balikpapan #EnglishVersion1

When the time become limited in these days (sok sibuk betul kamu niiis!), I try to do my hobbies everyweekend. Like I did at two weeks ago, my highschool friends and I went to The Booming Place in Balikpapan, they call it Green Pond because we saw the green water and we thought about the pond not lake, it's small not big. It used to be site of mining and now It doesn't use anymore. I know it called KW of Mirror Lake too (the founders thought Mirror Lake in Derawan Island when they saw it maybe), but I dont know who gives name of that place actually. That place is so beautiful and enjoyable to make you not boring again. When i came there, it was so silent, only us the five people who don't know Balikpapan so much hehe. It was being more crowded when the sun was up. We was walking around pond and hoped we find something different. We took some pictures (there was a digging land), met some bikers, and felt tired to walk too far. We thought the last of road (it isn't called road, it was only a jalan setapak) was the place we had started. So, we were turning around and coming back to the first place, i mean the place that our motorcycles parked.

Water Everywhere in Lombok [Part 4]

Kenyang dengan ber-snorkling ria, gak menyurutkan niat kami untuk 'menikmati' air lagi.

just a small dot

Seusai menyebrang kembali ke pulau lombok, kami diajak puput ke air terjun Tiu Pupus. Jalan menuju kesana masih dengan jalanan yang sangat alami, tak menyangka kalau ada air terjun di ujung jalan sana. Dari parkiran, kami masih berjalan kurang lebih 50 meter, gak begitu jauh kok. air terjun ini gak begitu banyak pengunjung, padahal kebersihannya terjaga oleh penduduk sekitar situ. tempat ini cocok buat yang belajar memotret high/slow speed, keluarga yang mau rekreasi, atau jomblo yang mau menyendiri *lirik jomblo* *liat foto dibawah ini* :D

Hunting Bareng Topik

Mungkin saat itu topik lagi keseleo tangan pas nyari nomornya orang di HPnya. nama yang tertera di layar touchscreennya itu tidak sinkron dengan apa yang dipikirannya. nama itu adalah Nisa Rachmadina. ya itu saya. terpaksalah dia mengajak saya untuk menemaninya hunting, karena saat itu dia kebingungan layaknya bukan orang balikpapan yang tak mengerti seluk beluk tempat yang apik yang ada di balikpapan. Sebenarnya dia menemukan orang yang tepat, karena saya adalah orang balikpapan ASLI, sama aslinya kayak dia. yang terpikirkan pasti selalu melawai, tempat yang paling gawul di Balikpapan.

Ngirit di Gili Trawangan [Part 3]

Kebanyakan wisatawan asing tau Indonesia dari Pulau Bali, karena keindahan alamnya yang ada disana. Tapi sekarang bukan mau ngomongin tentang pulau dewata itu. Ada lagi pulau yang sering dikunjungi sama wisatawan asing, letaknya di pulau lombok, yaitu Gili Trawangan. masih cerita tentang perjalanan saya dan teman2 ke pulau Lombok bukan cabe.

ngejar sunset gili trawangan