Baliem Festival, is also an excellent event to capture close up images of the natives with strong character. Besides the facial expression, their colourful headdress and their texture of the skin, are all contributing to a good portrait study.
To ensure having sufficient “Hot Rock” for the stem pit cooking, seems to be the main concern of this native. This split moment of setting was rather attractive for any photographers to shoot an image with strong visual impact. I have no exception just to squeeze my camera shutter at this decisive moment.
Perhaps the happiest moment in life is to share with someone your experience of certain happening. From the expression of the members, surely this moment was a joyful one.
Such a moment was also very relaxing prior to their appearance of the Baliem Festival. For myself, the split of second was another opportunity to capture an image enriched with an element of human interest.