~ Nusantara Flower Garden ~ Photo

Photographer’s Note

About place :
Taman Bunga Nusantara or Nusantara flower garden is located near Mount Gede Pangrango and Bogor Tea Plantation, Puncak West Java. It takes two hours from Jakarta city or about 100KM from Jakarta. This place is huge covering 35 Ha and primarily collection of flowering plants from around the globe, its almost 300 varieties of flowers. There are five specialty garden including the Rose, water, american, french, Balinese, Mediterranean, dutch, Palm and japanese. All display not only plants but also traditional garden designs form those regions. This place is officially opened for public since September 1995 by former President Soeharto and his wife Ibu Tien Soeharto.

About picture :
This shot was taken from a moving train when i and my family enjoys this place, just one shot and I'm not too happy for the result. This picture has cropped and added some sharpness from the original. (take a look the original picture on ws)

added another view on 2nd ws

greetings from Jakarta
daniel

saxo042, trekks, Photo65Net, ChrisJ, Selmik, stego has marked this note useful

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Ultrablue (555) 2009-04-21 6:26

Hi Daniel!
Beautiful colors and composition, I'd like to be in this garden!

Regards

Elena

saxo042 (16234) 2009-04-21 6:39

Hi Daniel,
A very fine picture with very good colours! You hav edone a good cropping, even though your original photo is quite good as it is. Still interesting to see your two versions. A good note!
Kind regards
Gunnar

trekks (14334) 2009-04-21 8:58

hi Daniel

Good to see your post again.

A scene like this is a direct result of good composition work to present the garden view in most effective way of capturing the mood of the landscape. And you have done well here with this vertical format and sharp detail of the view.

Good work.

tfs, bill

Photo65Net (43096) 2009-04-21 9:28

Salut Daniel,
Beautiful contrast management.
I like the overall brightness.
Have a nice day,
JB.

sayeed_rahman (2301) 2009-04-21 12:20

Hello Daniel

Picturesque...technically flawless..maybe 1/500 could have got the sky perfectly..but something that i should learn..strive for sharp finishes..

take care :)

Cheers
Sayeed

ChrisJ (70443) 2009-04-21 19:05

Hi Daniel

Wonderful saturated colour, with good sharpness & definition. The tree at left frames the bg fountain & small tower at right. Indah sekali dans terima kasih!

Cretense (57010) 2009-04-22 5:05

Hi Daniel!

Beautiful photo, excellent nature photography, with a "touch" of architecture! Perfect use of the square framing, great composition! Flawless light managment, beautiful colours! Congratulations!

Hercules

Flavia (10202) 2009-04-22 8:25

Hi Daniel,

Perfect! Really masterful composition with all the elements so well placed in the frame. The tree framing the subjects is really nice touch as well as the nice fountain and garden. This place seems to be qite special. I like a lot the square format.

Regards,

Flavia

Rooster_kool (843) 2009-04-22 9:01 [Comment]

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Selmik (1432) 2009-04-23 19:30

Hi Daniel,
beautiful, bright and colorful photography, very well composed and presented, great accent on fountain and tower.
Excellent work.
Cheers,
Mike

stego (22448) 2009-05-08 20:27

Hi Daniel,
A beautiful garden, very well presented. I really don't understand why you are not happy with the photo because it is very attractive, well composed, with catchy colours and light. You did right cropping it. It's a good example how square format can be wisest choice sometimes.
Regards, José.

Angshu (34089) 2009-05-11 23:06

Hello Daniel
Nice balanced scene with the fountain & the tower. Like your framing achieved here with the tree on the left. Light is good & so is your exposure with traces of blue sky visible. Well done my friend!
Best Regards
Angshu