Tip Of Borneo Photo

Photographer’s Note

Photography has no golden moments. In photography, every moment is a moment. Whether it's a golden streaking sunset or amber bluish sunrise or high contrast afternoon, or simply bad hair day, any moment is a photographic moment by itself.

It was a pigment darkening hot and hair streaking windy afternoon. The promontory of the Tip of Borneo was quiet and deserted then. Just about everyone that had earlier thronged the piazza and had taken their obligatory photos, crowded a little restaurant at the parking lot grimacing about the sweltering heat and the sweats, running rivulets on their bodies. Patience was running on very thinning ice at the counter.

Kudat is like that too. By noon, the best thing is always a siesta to most or to some, a tall glass of iced cold something. Lots of it. Kudat has that kind of dry day everyday when the only thing in your mind at noon, is something shady, something cold and something windy.

Maybe I just go pop in that shelter over there...

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jusninasirun (10429) 2008-02-11 3:54

Assalamuallaikum Rabani,

I agree with you that in photography, every moment is a moment. There are no two identical sunrise or sunset at the same spot even if you left your camera on the tripod for days. My first love in photography when I first got my trusty old Canon AE-1 SLR as a teenager was landscapes. There’s something about getting out in nature with the challenge of capturing some of the amazing beauty that you see. Perhaps it fits with my personality type - but I loved the quietness and stillness of waiting for the perfect moment for the shot, scoping out an area for the best vantage point and then seeing the way that the light changed a scene over time. Now things have gone digital, the enjoyment is more fulfilling as you play around with your lappy darkroom. Gone are the days when you have to wait anxiously for 36 shots in a roll to be processed which ended up overexposed or all blurry because of experimenting with new settings of your camera.

Nice composition and very well captured moments.

Wasallam.

trekks (14336) 2008-02-11 4:17

Hello Rabani

Good point in your Note. Sometimes we do face noon heat and glare of the overhead sun and it is often challenging to photograph anything in that condition. But not impossible to get a good image.

I like this pov and composition of the Tip. Polariser not used? It is convenient for tourists to have driveway to the Tip.

TFS, bill

Ramdan (117) 2008-02-11 9:32

Assalamualaikum,
I don't think I can write any better words than Wonderful. It is for the great shot, it is for the remarkable and thoughtful note.

Wassalam,
Ramdan