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Clouds reflections
Trees from below
Blok M, South Jakarta
London greens
The end of June in London was incredibly hot. For the week I was there the sky was blue most of the time. No clouds in sight and very low humidity. Every morning I walked through Brockwell Park to get to Herne Hill railway station and catch the train to Blackfriars Bridge. I was walking through early, at around 7 or 7:30. The colours were crisp. The greens very green. The blue of the sky very blue. […]
Walking in the streets of Mataram, Lombok
I flew to Lombok this week to participate in a workshop where we met local government officials and researchers to discuss the impact on local policy making of a citizen journalism initiative called Kampung Media. The provincial capital is Mataram. A nice little city. Not too large, not too small. Where it is pleasant to walk around as I did at the end of the first day there. The atmosphere is a bit lay back. The […]
Caffe’ Tjikini in Jakarta
60 hours in Singapore
I was in Singapore last weekend and took these photos in public gardens, malls, an exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci and while riding the tube.
Bicycles
Last summer I spent a couple of days in Copenhagen. I live in Jakarta, a really big city. Lots of cars. Many motorbikes. Long distances. I do cycle to work and in my neighbourhood in Jakarta, but I am among the very few who do this. In Copenhagen I liked to watch the flow of bicycles. The separate lanes from the road used by cars and busses. The dedicated traffic lights. The large bicycle parking lots such as the one at Central Railway […]
Mountains of clouds
These picture were taken in 2012 in Apo Island, Visayas (Philippines). I was on Apo and in the late afternoon I looked across the strait that separates the island from Negros and saw these huge clouds formations building up along the slopes of Mount Talinis.