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more iPhoneography

2011-06-24T13:59:00.000+07:00

as an IG addict, I could stop taking pictures

yes, it is a kind of point and shoot photography

but I love catching the moment, the light

through a basic device

the limitation push your creativity to a certain limit

enjoy it !

this is one of the rare Indonesian comic collections

at Rumah Jawa, Cilandak, Jakarta

another rare collection, 50th Anniversary of Nikon F3

aero-space plane

(lamps in a ceiling)

I noticed that in the shopping mall

there are plenty of people waiting for someone

here are some picture of those waiting activities

waiting 1

waiting-2

waiting-3

waiting-4

waiting-5

waiting-6

waiting-7

waiting-8

waiting-9

waiting-10

waiting-11

in the shopping mall, you will also find compositions of

materials, texture like the followings:

texture-1

texture-2

texture-3

texture-4

texture-5

texture-6

texture-7

texture-8

texture-9

Suramadu Bridge

2011-06-02T16:57:00.000+07:00

I love photography and biking.

Couple of months ago I invited to become facilitator in a financial planning training session in Surabaya.

I did my high school in Surabaya, Sancta Maria High School, just across the street of the hotel where I stayed and given the training.

I brought my fixed gear bike along with me, cause I really want to strolling down the road where spent my high school years.

Suramadu is a bridge that connected the Surabaya (East Java mainland) and Madura Island. So on one Sunday morning I jumped onto my fixed gear bike and rode toward the bridge. Too bad that I couldn't rode over the bridge to Madura Islands. It is prohibited for a bicyclist to rode over the bridge.

Here are some momentos that I took.

iPhoneography

2011-06-02T15:08:00.001+07:00

In the begining of the year, I got an iPhone4 from a friend who just got back from US. He suggested me to download several photo apps, one of the is InstaGram (IG). After a while I just became A.IG.S (Addiction to InstaGram Suferer).

Here are some of the photos taken by iPhone4 and InstaGram and more to come.

These are not just photography but iPhonography (#bowowitjaksono #iphonography #iphonesia)

Kids are always playful

Tattoo on my friend, mbak Ira, on of my favorite artist

almost identical

a rhyming ceiling

waiting and waiting

splash of sun-ray over Sentosa Island

intellectual intercourse

perspective

wired

branch and sky

segway troops

queing posts

exhausted

water tap sink

roller-coaster at USS

bench

curvy lines

exhausted too

two chairs

post and bin

MRT - Harbourfront to Orchard

taxi queing at marina bay sands

marina bay sands tower 2 - consourse

marina bay sands tower1

pulau lae-lae, makassar, indonesia

2010-02-25T11:35:00.002+07:00

during my tenure in my other life (ha...ha...ha...), I frequently travelled to cities through out the country.

one of it is makassar, the capital of southern sulawesi

usually I slept at the Aryaduta, near Losari beach,

from where I could see a tiny island in front of the hotel

I always attracted to this particular island

so during one trip I took of to the island on a tiny boat

and took some images

enjoy.........!!!!

"row row row your boat"

"water, sky, land and trees .... 1"

"water, sky, land and trees .... 2"

"water, sky, land and trees .... 3"

"water, sky, land and trees .... 4"

"water, sky, land and trees .... 5"

Another "face" of Bali.....

2010-02-25T09:20:00.001+07:00

"berdua"
taken at Sofitel's beach

Usually when someone mentioned Bali, the first place that come into our mind are Kuta and Sanur beach.

I try to catch the other faces and places of Bali, wish you all like it ............

cliff in front of Ayana (was Ritz Carlton) Jimbaran, Bali

solitaire

"rumah di atas bukit"

this picture remind me of a song title

"huma di atas bukit"

(praire over the hill)

by Godbless

"solitaire girl"

nikko beach, nusa dua, bali

"couple"
nikko beach, nusa dua, bali

"dawn"

nikko beach, nusa dua, bali

and then we are going up again to Uluwatu

and bali bird park

and hard rock hotel

serene morning in sanur

2010-02-20T19:21:00.002+07:00

bali, its culture, beaches, mountains, people, and food, is always my favorite place

and my soul is always charged when I got back from there.........

sanur beaches was the favorites beach on its time, and now it becomes the choice of those who love serenity......

am trying to catch the serenity of sanur, wish I got it......

it was around 5am in the morning

and all of the photos are "long-shoot", so thanks to mr. Manfrotto

try to change the "white ballance setting", inspired by the ad "I love the blue of Indonesia..."

xPan format

and back to normal 3x5 format

and this is my favorite

chaseiro, on of my favorite group

2010-02-18T18:16:00.000+07:00

pemuda ke mana langkah mu menuju

apa yang membuat engkau ragu...

tujuan sejatimu menunggumu sudah, tetaplah pada pendirian smula......

di mana artinya berjuang, tanpa sesuatu pengorbanan....

ke mana arti rasa SATU itu..

adalah merupakan penggalan dari lagu PEMUDA yang dibawakan oleh sekelompok anak sekolahan yang bermusik. bersyukur sekali mendapatkan kesempatan untuk mengabadikan mereka dalam Java Jazz 2009 yang lalu....

Sobrat, a play by Rendra, his friends and kids

2010-02-17T21:11:00.001+07:00

another passion that I share is performing art..... in my opinion performing art is just like swimming in sport, in which train all of your muscle..... performing art content all aspect of art, which are dance, composition (blocking), lighting design (colour), and others....

here are some moments that I caught

Rendra, the maestro, as Sobrat

mas Ardi Kurdi in action... (yup that's not not hard on)

Oppie Andaresta, as the beautiful escort girl

the entourage and rendra's protegee

the sequels

Ceger "crossing bridge"

2010-02-17T15:52:00.002+07:00

once my mentor said "you don't have to go to a photo trip to take pictures, it can be anywhere, it canve whatever, that could be a good object and become good pictures"....

this crossing bridge is located in the TB Simatupang-Ceger-Cakung tool road, that passed by frequently. i hardly notice it until one night, so I stopped, went out of the tool road, and taking these pictures....

Faces of Bromo

2010-02-17T14:03:00.000+07:00

"bromo are not always about mountain" pak Sigit Pramono, the photographer who has a second job as banker (ha....ha....ha.....) and mas Lans Brahmantyo once said to me..... and that's so true........

here are some faces taken during the kesodo night

Bromo in Square

2010-02-17T13:54:00.001+07:00

as an self-learned photo enthusiast, I need a based theory, to support my photo - instinct ... so i took the "basic photography" course at Neumatt Photography School, Gunung Sahari, Jakarta - Indonesia.

And really lucky that I have had a very good mentor, mas Tirto Andayanto.

here are photos from my first photo trip, out of town, with Neumatt

on the first night we were experiencing the "kesodo night", the next day, the journey start with a drive in the "sea of sand"

and we also visited the "Ranu Pane", one of the lakes sorrounding Mt. Bromo

and the Mt. Bromo, taken from Pananjakan

also I have the luck the get these pictures, just because I get up early

and that's reminded me to a Chinese quote "early bird got all the good food"

and here are some "colourful" pictures of Mt. Bromo, from Pananjakan. We have to get up there before dawn, around 3am, the catch the sunrise .... too bad we didn't catch the sunrise due to the mists

random pictures

2009-08-23T12:24:00.001+07:00

this is an album of randoms picture that I took in many places....
again, just tried to be at the right places, catch the right moments, lights, shadows and souls

hope you all could feel the same feeling as me

The first 5 (five) photos were taken at Jakarta Motorshow couple of years back, to be frank, I am not an avid fans of cars, And usually I don't keen to go to JHCC during an event there because the crowd are to much for me, I can't enjoy anything that exhibited there. But my wife, a PR consultants, ask me to accompany her overseeing her works there. Gladly, we were going before the exhibition was opened, so there were not so many crowds..... and I strolling around taking pictures.

this picture was taken in one of the market in Shanghai, China.....
it was during the Year of Chicken festive

2009-08-23T08:27:00.002+07:00

I was very happy taking these moments.......
It was just a split second, luckily that I always put my camera "on" everytime with Apperture priority setting + spot metering.....
and voila.... got these beutiful pictures of Becky Tumewu

Taufik Abdullah is one of the best artist/writer to me....

To me Sandiaga S. Uno, is an interesting figures to be taken his pictures. His personality, his always smiling faces and his batiks are just like candies to a small kids. Very fortunate that he came to the event, and also reading his "poet"..... Enjoy!!!!!

"Museum Nasional" is always catch my eyes, but as there are many great photos of this particular museum, I don't dare to take any. As my wife mentoned that she got an invitation to attend Balai Pustaka books relaunching event in the evening, I begged her to accompany her. I have picturized the images that I want to take even before the event, and very fortunate that the "weather" was great.

This album taken from an event of Balai Pustaka's old books relaunching, i.e. Siti Nurbaya, Layar Terkembang etc.
I really love to catch the moments, peoples, lights, shadows and ambience of the place and event.

2008-09-29T13:43:00.001+07:00

"Awaiting - sQuare"
click "PLAY" and you will get classic sQuare format of pictures that could be and will be in exhibition of "Awaiting" November 1, 2008 - Banda Aceh

there are two names that have influenced me, the famous Michael Kenna and my friend Kamilia "Rosa-aka fantaijo" Rosmasari

also would like to thanks Maggy Horhoruw who challenged me and my wife, Sisi Soeratman, who encouraged me to answer the challenged

wish these "always newbie photography enthusiast" could learned and benefited from "Awaiting"

2008-09-29T13:35:00.000+07:00

"Awaiting - xPan"
click "PLAY" and the video will show you some pictures taken in xPan (Panoramic) format
am fallen for these format when Gladia Budianto, and Indonesian lived in Singapore shows his works at Aksara Kemang years ago. even he poisoned me with Tay Kay Chin's signature photography book, he is one of Hasselbald master

still play around with my xPan, an analog rangefinder camera that already discontinued, and would never stop

2008-09-29T13:28:00.000+07:00

"Awaiting - 3x5"
click "PLAY" to see some pictures, taken in 3x4 and 3x5 formats, that will be exhibited in "Awaiting" November 1, 2008 - Banda Aceh

some of these pictures might not be seen in the exhibition, but all of these pictures can be purchased in PRINT, please contact

bowo@suhardjo.com

long and winding road

2008-09-19T14:31:00.000+07:00

this picture is taken from a 'sampan' heading to the island,
Lae-lae, in front of Makassar city

the low angle of morning sun really helped me to get the mood
love the picture so much
wish i will get the change to explore more of the island potentials someday

make this picture as the entry to the serials of pictures that will be exhibited in

AWAITING
November 1, 2008
Banda Aceh

the pictures will be presented in three different formats
xPan, 3x5 and classic square
both in "color" and "black and white"

see you in Banda Aceh
bowo@suhardjo.com