The Blue Fire Volcano , Kawah Ijen , Java, Indonesia | liewwk

After 2016 May Bali Photohunters Outing, I decided make quick trip for East Java for Birding and Ijen.

Here, let me share some experience for the Ijen “Blue Fire”

the hike is ~3km to the top of the mountain , and you will be welcome with view of

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look close Ijen crater …

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We went down by dusk time and here are some highlight I want to share

1. Blue Fire with Dusk

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2. when we get close .. the Blue Fire “waterfall”

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3. my guide in action

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4. The worker is even nearer to collect the sulfur

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5. myself , with help from my portal … and sometime sparking do happen and create magenta, red tone

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6. last one the dream Milky Way + Blue Fire .. *** this angle wont happen and I post processing in different angle Milky Way into the frame ..

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liewwkNature Photohunters : 2016 May, Bali , Indonesia

finally back from another Photohunters outing 2016 May, Bali, Indonesia ..

we travel mostly center of Bali … and Skip the west path from the map as it is my own extension travel …

TRAVELMAP

we had 13 of us , shooting non stop from sunset, nightscape, sunrise, slow shutter etc … and most of us feel tired after 2-3 days the outing but all seem enjoy the shooting session till last moment .

sharing some pictures from the tour below

1. Group Photo at Kintamani

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2. solo shooting , sunrise on left site and my buddy Gung facing there and I am turning to south direction because saw this 😀

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3. while we shoot sunset at Mengening Beach, Bali … saw the pre wedding shooting so I try to snap and go lo

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4. stand from Sanur Beach

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5. Sanur Beach always with Mist !!!!! and a dream boat 😀

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6. main target .. nightscape .. not bad everynight also we got clear sky for the milky way shooting

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7. cold place and trying different angle and someone camping here !!!!

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8. after Milky way .. sunrise here with mist is best but still need to redo due to wrong info by my buddy Gung

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9. again high tide !!!! never got chance to shoot low tide here 🙁 but love the golden light hit on the gold rock

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10. lovely Jatiluwih paddy field layes, Mount Agung, Moon, blue hours, beautiful sky 😀

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11. new spot for Milky way … good to come here by May-Jun 😀 new technique to shoot milky reflection

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12. think my last visit this spot .. getting dirty and worst

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13. sunset moment .. but think lack of foreground but end up I take another foregound from other place become .. but need more time to post

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14. finally got beautiful shoot from here but sunrise direction is way out this month 😀

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15. remember bring tele len .. you wont know when u need for landscape 😀

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16. light up !!!!

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17. think the only time I visit Jatiluwih at Green … and this time we got GREEN + Milky Way 😀

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“600mm F4” birding setup and ONLY “2.15KG” !!! Olympus M.Zuiko ED 300mm F4 … | liewwk

Birding with Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f4.0 PRO Lens | liewwk

 

I am lucky to have this len with me for 2 days testing … I brought this len to various locations for real world testing … from bright, dark, lowland, montane etc ..

with the small sensor size, this 300mm F4 make to 600mm F4 (35mm sensor equivalent) and it weight only 2.15kg together with EM1 body, battery grip, batteries ….. so if weight is main concern than this len could be yours choice.

*** all the birds pictures, RAW-JPEG just increase contrast, saturation and resize no noise reduction etc

*** will be slowly update more pictures upon request

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We start the test at low light and some action bird .. rufous-backed kingfisher feeding on fish .. immediate after got the fish, this bird non stop flipping the fish and it may stop for a moment every once and than .. so have to got the moment right to have this capture [click image for bigger resolution image]

 

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follow by the lovely and beautiful Garnet Pitta, where at not very dark environment …

 

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beautiful Green Magpie

 

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so with the previous available solution , lets update the list 😀

now we have tested both Lee Filter SW150 series and HAIDA 150mm filter series … below are filters we tested so far

1. Lee Filter SW150 holder for Nikon 14-24 F2.8

2. HAIDA 150mm holder for Nikon 14-24 F2.8

3. HAIDA 150mm holder for CANON 14mm F2.8 mark2

4. Lee Filter 150x170mm GND series

5. Lee Filter CPL 150mmx150mm

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7. HAIDA 150mm CPL

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9. HAIDA 150mm ND 1.8/640 or littler stopper

10. HAIDA 150mm ND 3.6 (12 stops ND)

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11. HAIDA Holder solution for SAMYANG 14mm F2.8

12. HAIDA Holder solution for TAMRON 15-30mm F2.8

13. HAIDA Holder solution for CANON TSE-17mm F4

14. HAIDA Holder solution for SIGMA 12-24mm mark2

update 2016 april 27

16. HAIDA Holder solution for Carl Zeiss 15mm F2.8

17. Lee Filter SW150 CANON 11-24mm F4 adapter

18. 84.5 RGND for 150mm system

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Malaysian Hill Partridge finally … | liewwk

I had trying very hard to get open picture for Malaysian Hill Partridge, finally I managed to got decent photo 2016 March … this bird is not rare but just never like to show up in the open

 

Malaysian Hill Partridge 砍氏山鹧

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update 2016 Apil

previously my keeper for this bird

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Reverse GND for 150mm Square filter system

finally we have solution for 150mm square filter system for 150mm system which support Canon 14mm F2.8, TSE17mm, Nikon 14-24 F2.8, Tamron 15-30 F2.8, SAMYANG 14mm F2.8, SIGMA 12-24mm etc.

and some test results from same filter manufacturer but it is on 100mm system [84dot5 RGND 100mm] .

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endemicguides Birds Report – 2016 Feb 20 – KRAU

we “endemlaiscguides.com” having Dutch guest for target birds (main target Malaysian Rail-babbler [Eupetes macrocerus] & Malayan Banded Pitta  [Pitta guajana irena/ripleyi] watching, from Kuala Lumpur – KRAU forestfor ~6 hours birding ..

We have no luck on the Rail-Babbler no single call , due to limited time we have we going bit further trail for banded Pitta and managed to have clear view of the Malayan Banded Pitta plus some other birds e.g.

Red Junglefowl
Purple Heron
Oriental Honey-buzzard
Little Green-Pigeon
Raffles’s Malkoha
Whiskered Treeswift
Scarlet-rumped Trogon
Rufous-collared Kingfisher
Black Hornbill
Sooty Barbet
Gold-whiskered Barbet
Red-throated Barbet
Coppersmith Barbet
Checker-throated Woodpecker
Maroon Woodpecker
Buff-rumped Woodpecker
Banded Pitta
Garnet Pitta
Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Asian Paradise-Flycatcher
House Crow
Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher
Puff-backed Bulbul
Black-headed Bulbul
Stripe-throated Bulbul
Red-eyed Bulbul
Chestnut-rumped Babbler
White-rumped Shama
Little Spiderhunter

 

in summary

Total 30 species saw
Star birds

Banded Pitta
Garnet Pitta
Little Green pigeon

 

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endemicguides Birds Report – 2016 Feb 21-25 – KRAU – Bukit Tinggi – Fraser Hill – Kuala Lumpur

we “endemlaiscguides.com” having Belgium guest for target birds watching, from Kuala Lumpur – KRAU forest – Bukit Tinggi – Fraser Hill – Kuala Lumpur

for the 5 days 4 nights birds watching , from secondary forest to highland back to botanical Garden … we only concentrate on guest targets birds and managed to record  172 species. and for some good opportunity. from

Day 1 – KRAU : we have some good morning with many low land targets meet except a “mysterious”  Black & Yellow Broadbill and Banded Pitta… Star Bird of the day we have Rail-Babbler , Garnet Pitta which stay long snough for us , Little Green-Pigeon , Rufous-collared Kingfisher (real close with good view), Banded Kingfisher (found almost end of the day and long view but little far up with scope) & Rhinoceros Hornbill  (with beautiful lighting view)

Day 2 – Bukit Tinggi : target for the Mountain Peacock-Pheasant and both male and female show in the early morning … follow by Malaysian Rail-babbler giving a good running view. than we have a bad day without any more target in almost late morning till 3pm … finally when we say while we dint see Whiskered Treeswift …. it calling when we are driving for some target birds and we make a stop and found this fruiting tree give us another few target included Scaly-breasted Bulbul , Red-throated Sunbird, Spectacled Spiderhunter , Yellow-eared Spiderhunter  etc

Day 3 – KRAU-Fraser : we were going back to KRAU for trogon and we had ZERO trogon so far ..and again we also look for other lowland target … in the morning we managed to have Banded Pitta (Malayan) [head view]and than follow by first target trogon – Scarlet-rumped Trogon … and we called it a Woodpecker day as most the target woodpeckers just appear infront of us without big effort Checker-throated Woodpecker , Crimson-winged Woodpecker , Bamboo Woodpecker , Orange-backed Woodpecker .

Day 4 – Fraser Hill : not many target birds here and we only looking for those “no so common” birds here … so we have slow day … but still we have very easy view of 2 Marbled Wren-Babbler which make our day .. but we still failed to have one Partridge calling … and missed few Rusty-naped Pitta … but Siberian Thrush giving good view to us which we really enjoy to see they happy feeding around

Day 5 – Fraser Hill – Kuala Lumpur : not really a productive day again as we only target on the main target due to limited time , we managed to get close to Mountain Scops-Owl and have a moving and some blur picture of Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian) . when we leaving back to Kuala Lumpur it is very windy and tree fall down and block our way back … by waiting of 30 min the road been clear .

as long as we reach Kuala Lumpur – Shah Alam : very quick one we had 2 target meet : Gray-breasted Spiderhunter & Hooded pitta (2 individual saw also)

 

I managed rush back to car for few occasions and handheld to capture some birds pictures to share…

a never bore cute bird - Black and Yellow Broadbill is one of the Target and it just flew ni while we spending our good time with a fruiting tree - Black-and-yellow Broadbill 黑黄阔嘴鸟
a never bore cute bird – Black and Yellow Broadbill is one of the Target and it just flew ni while we spending our good time with a fruiting tree – Black-and-yellow Broadbill 黑黄阔嘴鸟

 

found few fruiting tree with this beautiful Bulbul - Scaly-breasted Bulbul 鳞胸鹎
found few fruiting tree with this beautiful Bulbul – Scaly-breasted Bulbul 鳞胸鹎

 

the Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot also join the fruiting tree - Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 短尾鹦鹉
the Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot also join the fruiting tree – Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot 短尾鹦鹉

 

another fast and furious birds .. but we have good view of both male and female - Bamboo Woodpecker 竹啄木鸟
another fast and furious birds .. but we have good view of both male and female – Bamboo Woodpecker 竹啄木鸟

 

another fast and furious birds .. but we have good view of both male and female - Bamboo Woodpecker 竹啄木鸟
another fast and furious birds .. but we have good view of both male and female – Bamboo Woodpecker 竹啄木鸟

 

a bird never get bore , few pairs of them around .. Red-bearded Bee-eater 赤须夜蜂虎
a bird never get bore , few pairs of them around ..
Red-bearded Bee-eater 赤须夜蜂虎

 

another bird , easy ... just spent 5-10 min found this and managed to go back car and grab camera for this .. in single day found 2 individual birds - Marbled Wren-Babbler 石纹鹪鹛
another bird , easy … just spent 5-10 min found this and managed to go back car and grab camera for this .. in single day found 2 individual birds – Marbled Wren-Babbler 石纹鹪鹛

 

a bird we spent a lot of time for ... calling non stop .. managed to see it movement and some blur shot handhled - Gray-breasted/ Malaysia Hill Partridge (Malaysian) 砍氏山鹧􅏾
a bird we spent a lot of time for … calling non stop .. managed to see it movement and some blur shot handhled – Gray-breasted/ Malaysia Hill Partridge (Malaysian) 砍氏山鹧􅏾

 

a bird make a lot of noise when we driving back - Rufescent Prinia 暗冕山鹪莺
a bird make a lot of noise when we driving back – Rufescent Prinia 暗冕山鹪莺

 

in summary

Total 174 species saw
Star birds

Banded Pitta
Malayan Rail-Babbler
Garnet Pitta
Yellow Vented Pigeon
Bamboo Woodpecker
Gray-breasted Partridge (Malaysian)
Mountain Peacock-Pheasant
Marbled Wren-Babbler

 

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2016 Lifer – Yellow-vented green pigeon

Saw this pigeon last year but not able to get a picture of it. Finally have some spare time and spent ~2 days waiting to get a open shot for this bird.

it is bit shy, whenever it is open and I try to move myself it will trying to hide from me … not bad for limited angle and time for this

 

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liewwkNature Photohunter : 2016 Jan JiuZhaiGou , CHINA

Back from CHINA and too busy for other work .. and now only able to download the pictures and will share more info here later . but let’s share the beautiful view of this place .

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– it is a reason why I share this map with extra location as we going to explore further

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We spent 4 days in the park and beautiful colorful lake, river, waterfall with ice … the weather is acceptable cold but not really in extreme …

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a view that make me confuse , not sure what to capture .. the reflection or the clear water … and finally decide not to use any CPL to have both …

update 2016 Jan 29

  • one of the beautiful lake with dry-death tree, moving source water-still , dark-colorful/bright
from dark-bright, black-colorfull, move-still, live-dead ... [HAIDA CPL, HAIDA ND .9 , LEE Filter GND .45h]
from dark-bright, black-colorfull, move-still, live-dead … [HAIDA CPL, HAIDA ND .9 , LEE Filter GND .45h]

 

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