Running Water In A Ditch

Running Water In A Ditch. See it running in You Tube: chewginhoa, Sound, Sight Of Running Water In A Broken Ditch.

Old Belo

Belo the unwanted doggy is so old. He wants to be fondled, cuddled, hugged. See him live in You Tube: chewginhoa, Old Belo

The Merinjak

Blurred, But Dream-like

I’m lucky to capture this bird far away by “zooming in” yet the result is blurred. Unfortunately “Windows Life Movie Maker” can’t play it. It was too short. I didn’t succeed to turn out a sharp real photo, yet, I can still make me this picture, blurred, but dream-like.

"Fire, Fire!"

Fire in a tin box

Sate roasted on a fire.

How peaceful, warm is a small fire in a candle, an oil-lamp, fire-side, camp-fire but fearful as a house on fire, in an eruption of a volcano.

The first thing I remember when there’s fire, is to rescue my dogs, save my writings, books, recordings, lest they would be lost forever as they are my treasures,  then my papers and my money.

But to day have I stored my thoughts, pictures, videos in my blogs, and You Tube. My money is in a bank.They are save there, I’m not worried when there’s a fire or lost.

Sure, some people write a book, write in a respected, scientific journal, magazine to preserve their writings but mine in my blogs and You Tube  are certainly not less honorable.

Wandering Sekoteng Vendor

Wandering Sekoting Vendor

Musing Over A Bowl Of Sekoteng

He is perhaps one of the last wandering ‘sekoteng’ (gingerly drink) vendor with his wheel-cart, an oil lamp, sounding “ting-ting” along the road. In former times, villagers, common folk, enjoy a night, leisurely sitting together, squatting, sitting on a bench, on the side walk, near a village market, or alun-alun (plain), ... drinking warm ‘sekoteng’, while someone is playing the ‘kecapi’ (Indonesian zither) in the still, cool night, the moon rising, a starry sky, fire-flies, with soft, peaceful ‘pelita’ light (oil-lamp), ... There were no glaring city lights, no roaring cars and motor-cycles, no hard-rock music ... The people sometimes give him some cents. 

Just within a short life time of 60, 70, 80, ... years, so much, a lot has changed and many things, plants, insects, birds, animals, delicious folk cookies, drinks, ices, ... are gone, lost, I see no more ...

The “kue putu” (rice cake) vendor with its whistle in the night, the kue rangi, folk niceties, cakes, ...

Dragon-flies, damselflies visited, birds nest in our garden, there was dew on the grass. You could hear the gecko: “tekeh-tekeh, ...”    

There were  frogs’ concert after rain, a ‘gabus’ mother fish with almost a thousand babies of her brood, the ‘betok’, rice, paddy fields with a lot of fish ...

There were little snails like sailing boats or skiing on leaves and stalks, many kind of beetles in the Bogor Botanical Gardens ...

The eagle, herons sailing, circling in the sky, hooting owl, the ‘musang’, fireflies, ...

The sky in Jakarta was so clear the stars were visible.

What a loss, they almost are no more. And I’m not a scientist. It has become a fairy tale.

One day you could only see them in pictures, in a zoological-, botanical-museum. If fortunate, you could see them still “live”  in You Tube or a video.  See You Tube: Sound, Oil-lamp Of The Wandering Sekoteng Vendor – chewginhoa.

June 2011

Piggy's Sisterly Love

Piggy's Sisterly Love

Piggy is so sweet, so descent. She waits eating till Belo starts eating and she licks afterwards his plate and mouth clean. See her live in You Tube: chewginhoa, My Doggies.

Joey Excited

See him running in You Tube: chewginhoa,  Angry Joey.

The Wind

The Wind

I wanted to capture the wind by recording the ripples on the lake by “zooming in”, I just captured faintly the ripples but surprisingly, the camera captured a lovely flower. That’s what I learned, my reward for poor shooting.

 

So now can I capture the wind also by recording waving trees, waving lovely flowers, sailing clouds, ...

I could sit for hours with my thoughts, enjoy watching in the shade, in a breeze, these flowers waving. See You Tube: The Wind – chewginhoa.

June 2011

Lovely Weeds

Weeds

The Mother Chick

The Mother Chick

I tried to catch her baby but I captured the mother. See her live in You Tube: chewginhoa, Chasing After A Baby Chick.


She certainly is not ordinary. Were peacocks raised as easily as chickens, they would look as ordinary as this chick.

How I Recorded A Cock's Crow

How I Recorded A Cock’s Crow

How should I record a cock’s crow as I just saw a cock in a cage? When start recording, when you don’t know when he will crow? So I recorded something else. Luckily I saw and recorded swimming ducks, while waiting for the cock to crow and I succeeded to record some of his crowings, but pity, as I stopped recording he crowd again. I got the ducks by “zooming in” that is to  make them larger but blur while the lake Kemuning unfortunately wasn’t captured. Thanks to the superbe ability of the digital mini camera, the ducks were kept on the light-side.

I can’t picture a crow, but if you want to hear it and see the ducks swimming turn to You Tube: “Cocks Crowing, Ducks Swimming”

June 2011

What I Learned From My Mini Digital Camera

What I Learned From My Mini Digital Camera

I  can’t command noisy people in the Bogor Botanical Gardens to hold their tongues, motor vehicles stop running when cicadas are singing, can you? But I insist that the human species can also sing very beautifully. However I have no way of capturing sounds in picture.

Chasing after a  seabird in flight I got no bird, blank, but captured this picture. Ha. Ha.

Pantai Indah Kapuk

June 2011