Tea Plantation Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is the Boh Tea Plantation near Tanah Rata, in the Cameron Highlands, peninsula Malaysia. I really like drinking tea, and it was very interesting seeing where it comes from. These are the tea bushes. They are harvested with a hand-held mechanical cutter with a petrol driven motor. This whole area is very scenic.

I managed to get a guy wire for a telegraph pole in the RHS of the photo, I've Photoshopped that out, otherwise the photo is as scanned from the negative.

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Vagabond (5797) 2003-12-08 7:42

Nice picture. I like very much that mosaic pattern we can see in the middle plan. I made a little Ws with your photo. Hope you like it ..

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whereami (1427) 2003-12-08 8:08

Great clarity in this. And a well composed shot too. The detail is remarkable and the patterns are interesting. I think there's just enough detail in the sky to keep it interesting and the overall 'lushness' of it is really eyecatching.

rabani (9421) 2004-03-18 20:23

Thank you Josh. It was a bit blurred because I was handholding at 1/10. Served me right for not taking along the tripod. I am going there again and hope to God, the sun would give me that same hues or better. This time I would bring the tripod.

As for your picture here, I had the same problem. Too contrasting the scenery and therefore we have to lose some saturation in the background. I would recommend a polarizing filter when shooting in Malaysia. What do you think Josh?

MLINES (10842) 2006-08-01 3:28

Hi Josh, Very interesting to learn that tea is grown in Malaysia. Good wide view showing that everay avalable piece of land is used. Good clarity and colour. Murray.