Category: Landscape

A wider-angle view of my earlier post… (I’ve got even wider views to post later on :P)

Although there was much more equipment to carry when I brought both my digital SLRs (my older 300D and the current 20D I’m using) to Indonesia, having two camera bodies mounted to two different lenses (17-40 f/4 L and 70-200mm f/4 L) proved to be useful, especially when changing lenses was difficult due to dusty environments, or when there simply isn’t enough time to switch lenses. I am glad I chose to keep my 300D — it is essentially still a camera that produces great images — although at times, I do wish that I had two 20Ds with me (for the faster focusing and higher megapixel count) 🙂

As an aside: I seem to be getting less feedback on my pictures since I started posting this Mount Bromo series. Not everybody’s cup of tea? Do let me know 😛

We visited this place called Savana on our third day at the Mount Bromo area. I cannot find any references to Savana online (except for a couple of Indonesian websites written in Bahasa Indonesia). Looking up Google Earth, I came up with a satellite view of the area. I have marked what I believe should be the true location of Savana. The sunrise we got at Savana was well worth the visit to this extremely windy and cold location.

Mount Bromo decided to put up a show for us on our second evening there, spewing sulphuric fumes as the sun descended over the landscape. The evening sun created nice saturated colours, giving a nice golden hue to the landscape and the plumes of smoke. Dad has a slightly different composition of the above: his includes Mount Sumeru in the background, which was also spewing volcanic fumes.