I am not usually one for posting my pictures of sunsets. Cliché, cliché. Exceptions confirm the rule, so here is a sunset over the Gili islands, Indonesia. The Gili islands are a group of tiny islands (you can walk around them over the beach in about 1,5 hours.) just off the west coast of the island of Lombok, Indonesia. Two of the Gili islands have developed into a regular Ibiza party-island counterpart. The island stuck in the middle, Gili Meno, from which I took this picture, is still relatively quiet and peaceful.
A perfect spot on Bali for a break. What is there not to like here?
A view on jungle vegatation on the island of Bali.
One of the interesting tempels to visit on Bali is the Tirta Enpul water temple with its holyspring water. The temple is visited by Balinese Hindus who visit the temple for a ritual purification in the fresh spring water.
Imagine yourself a solitary mangrove tree a few feet from the shore line, a slowly incoming tide, a clear nightsky with thousands of stars and a building site behind you with a security light aimed straight at your tree. This was the setting for this picture I took somewhere on the northern coast of Bali.
The tree for me symbolizes the struggle that nature has against the encroaching species called humans. Even here on Bali. The fact that only half of the tree has leaves is quite ominous... I imagine that this part of the coast was previously an extensive mangrove forest. Now all is cleared, the beaches and the coral reefs a little further away are used by tourists and the land directly next to the beach is being steadily filled by extensive hotels.
The building site behind me, admittedly convenient for this picture, is a next slice of the cake that is being cut off from the original cake called nature.
A long exposure.
This tree is perhaps one of the 'highlights' of my travels over Bali last month. It is a sad remnant of a mangrove-forest on the northern shores of the island. The beach seemed to be cleared for tourism, as just next to this spot holiday bungalows were being built. I spent a few hours here to take some long exposure pictures of it. This is one from a series I shot in broad daylight. Tomorrow I will post a picture I took at midnight when the tide was out.
Another picture on the theme "Sitting, waiting, fishing". Another long exposure.
On the lake of Danau Beratan, Bali, there is quite some fishing going on. Fishermen not only go out on to the lake in small boats, or fish from jetties (see my previous post), some have also built makeshift seats a few meters from the waters edge like this one. Fish caught is sold at the market just up the road or eaten for dinner.
After a long break, I am back to posting pictures on my blog.
I am just back from extended travels on the island of Bali, Indonesia. With a sidestep to Lombok to climb the Rinjani-volcano (second highest peak in Indonesia at 3.726 meters) and some relaxing on the Gili Meno island just next to Lombok.
We travelled extensively over the island of Bali, escaping most of the intensive tourism that goes on in the south part of the island. I will be posting some of my favorite pictures I took along the way.
This is an image of two boys fishing in the lake of Danau Beratan: one of the lakes on the top of the volcano of Bali. A long expsoure.