PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES OF INDONESIA (2)

CENTRAL & EAST JAVA


(By Brian Gunter, Cooma, Australia)

You are visitor number since 1 March 2000.


Over the past 25 years I have made numerous work visits to Indonesia. My first visit, with my young family, was in 1975 when we were assigned for 15 months to work on an hydro-electric project in Bandung, West Java (I am a civil engineer specialising in hydrology, flood control and water resources). Two other long-term assignments to Bandung took place over the period from 1978 to 1983. During the 90's I have made shorter work visits to Indonesia, living in cities like Cirebon (West Java), Yogyakarta, Semarang (Central Java) and Denpasar (Bali). But it was not all work and during my off-work time we managed to visit many places in Java and Bali and I also visited Sumatra twice.

On the presumption that a picture is worth a thousand words (and also is usually more interesting) I have placed a few of my photographs on this web page. The intention is not to present a photographic travelogue of all the places we visited, but to merely show you some of the photos that I found the most interesting and satisfying.

Because of the difficulty in selecting a small number of photographs from my extensive selection I have divided my Indonesian photographs into three separate websites. This one covers Central and East Java, and others cover Bali, West Java and Sumatra.

For those interested in a few technical details, my present camera is a Canon EOS-100. I use only two lenses (both zooms), a Sigma 28-105mm and a Canon 70-300mm. I generally use Fujicolor 400 film as this allows me to hand-hold at 300mm focal length for the "close-up portrait shots". I sometimes use the in-camera flash to provide fill-in flash for portrait-type shots. Some of my earlier photographs, however, were taken with a Minolta GX-7 camera with a Tamron 45-150mm lens.

For the preparation of computer images I use commercial prints (A4 enlargements if possible). I have an OpticPro 9630P flat-bed digitiser and use Adobe Acrobat software for the scanning. I then carry out photo editing (minimal use so far, mainly cropping and colour/contrast control) using Microsoft Photo Editor software. I compose my web pages as Word files and transfer these to my GeoCities website using the GeoCities EZ File Upload Utility. Within GeoCities I edit the files to include the photographs. Fortunately GeoCities offer 15 MB of free webspace, and this website of mine uses up less than 1 MB.

I hope that you enjoy sharing some of my photographic "treasures" of Java. Please email me any comments that you may have.












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Brian Gunter, Cooma, Australia

Prepared 10 February 2000


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