Traditional Village Tenganan - Karangasem Bali

Tenganan Village is one of traditional village in Bali, it’s located in Manggis sub -district, Karangasem regency, East part of Bali. You may be familiar with Candidasa, Tenganan is just the corner before Candidasa. It can be reached by one and half of hour driving, or its about 70km away from Capital City of Bali, Denpasar.

Farming is very common activity of Tenganan villagers, however most of them also have highly skill in traditional crafting, and  weaving. Crafting piece of bamboo is one of tremendous traditional art Tenganan has, it have been there since a long time ago, transferred from generation to generation. 

A man spending a day doing bamboo crafting

Highly skill Tenganan people doing bamboo crafting

Bamboo crafting is not just a traditional culture, also inheritance from previous generation. They are doing this, not only to preserve their culture but also for their living. There is another famous heritage which Tenganan  has as well, Tenun Pegrisingan (woven cloth Pegrisingan). It's one of high quality woven cloth product, even though it's being proceed in traditional approach. The way Tenganan people make this valuable art-product, it's so unique. Their product has been well recognized in world wide market.

Kain Tenun Pegrisingan

Housing of Tenganan village is traditional, and looks simple. I did not observe they have housing structure like most common Balinese has, such Menten (North housing), Bale Dauh (West Housing), Bale Dangin (East Building), Paon (Kitchen). They ony have one house inside and the Bales are all outside the house. 

Traditional Bale 

Another Bale in Tenganan Village

The "Bale" looks traditional, most of building materials are from wood, bamboo, as well as stone and bricks. 

Traditional housing of Tenganan Village                         

Carving on the wall

The village is not very remote now, it's already get influenced by modern world little by little, such as lighting already using electricity, transportation, they already have motor-bikes, cars, as well as information, the television, internet, mobile hand-phone are quite handy for them nowadays, however they still highly preserve their uniquely culture.

The people, the culture as well as the heritage of Tenganan Village is indicating rich civilization this  the past.

Courtesy to pOetOegde photography for providing the photos, all photos were originally taken by iPhone 5.

My Collections

Hi fellows, here are the collection of my photo-works. Glad to hear that my photo-works has been appreciated by some of photography community and to be recognized as well. Those are giving me courage and motivation to keep on learning and improve my self in photography world. Some of those photos were taken in Bali, Singapore and some of them are in Batam Island. 

I do like landscape photo-work where the identity of the place is more dominant compared to the focal point,  to me it create a story line of the photos.  Some of them are in balance composition to represent a reflection of the object itself. I don't do much post processing in all of my photo-works, i just keep it simple as it is. However, i do enhance the color and increase the contrast somehow. 

There are so many photography community networks providing the service of photo-sharing. Some of them are profitable and some of them may be not. Those networks is not just for showing up your photo-work but also bring a bridge of  photographers to interact and appreciate other fellow photographers works. In this page, i am sharing my photo-works which i published in Bali Photography Guide and Gallery Photography Indonesia. 

Hope you enjoy it.

Bali Photography Guide

Silhouette of Fisherman

Mysterious Place

Bunga Cinta dari Buyan

Hidden Beauty

Pesona Gunung Batur

Gelora Sore Itu

Morning Reflection

A lonely guardian

In deep of silence

Gallery Photography Indonesia

Silhouette of fisherman

Hidden Beauty

Racing Lines

Mysterious Place

A Survivor

Truly City

U Turn

Sense of Movement of Long exposure

I have visited Kintamani, Lake Batur couple of times during my holiday in Bali, the place is just about 30 minutes to reached from my home, Bangli, Bali. I never been bored visiting it again and again, instead i got different kind of photos in the same place but in different timing.

As i believe, landscape photo is not just about the place, or beautiful scenery, it's also about sense of movement such as water movement, cloud movement, light movement and etc. The two photos below may be able to describe the movement of the cloud, "A Boat" and " You and I". In order to achieve that, very long long exposure was used. I took them in December and August 2012 respectively. Those were taken in the same place, but in different timing.

A Boat

You & I

Another place which  i visited most is Tanah Lot beach, located in Tabanan regency, Bali. I need to travel  about 2 and an half of hours to reach this place from my home.

"Batu Bolong Temple" and "Twilight at Batu bolong" were taken some in December 2012, while "Tanah Lot Temple" was taken in December 2011. Instead of representing the place, i would rather to give sense of water movement of those photos. It's tide, and strong wind, perfect time for long exposure.

Batu Bolong Temple

Twilight at Batu Bolong

Tanah Lot Temple

The Hobbit place in Bali

Small creature, incredibly fast, soundless move, live in small hole, love peace and harmony, those the Hobbit has. They live in Shire, world of hobbit, with a lot of happiness, and joy of life.

I start following the Hobbit since trilogy Lord of the Ring officially released. I do love how the friendship began between the Hobbit and other creatures, when they start the journey to Mordor, returning back the ring to the place where it was created as well as ruin it.

Here is one of my photo-works which i dedicate to the Hobbit, it's so called "Dreaming of Shire (World of Hobbit)". It's rich of colors indeed, deliver sense of serenity, having chain of cliff a long the lake (Lake of Batur).

Dreaming of Shire (World of Hobbit) 

During the mission to return back the ring to Mt. Mordor, the Hobbit was supported by other fellows, one of them is the Dwarve. There is a strong connection between the Dwarve and the Hobbit, as in the past the Hobbit (Bilbo Baggin) was supporting the Dwarve (Thorin) to get back his kingdom in Lonely Mountain after being sabotage by the Dragon. It was very long journey of the Hobbit & Thorin company to reach remarkable place of Dwarve, Thorin Kingdom family. Indeed there is a lot experience the hobbit gained during that mission, as well as finding the ring which is eventually knows as the Lord of the Ring.

I dedicate my photo-works as below, "Lonely Mountain" to be apart of destination of the Hobbit and Thorin's Company journey. The place where a lot of treasures, gold, swords, and precious thing found belonging to Thorin's Family Kindom.

Lonely Mountain

When the fellowship of the Ring established, they start the mission to bring the Hobbit (Frodo) to reach Mt. Mordor. By that time, Sauran has already  excessively increase his army. They are Orc, Smeagul, and most of creatures from the darkness. As well as His ally, the magician Saramun.

This is so called "the raise of the Darkness", i dedicate my photo-work below to represent the raise of the darkness, as the dark cloud fully cover the mountain (Mt. Mordor), it deliver sense of scared.

Raise of the darkness

You are able to find more of my photo-works on the following link,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43253825@N08/8386847496/

or you can visit and like my page in facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/pOetOegde-photography/178613408885090

Hope you enjoy it, see you again in other page, Ciao

I am Selling my EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8

Hello Guys, fellows photographers,

I am selling my EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8, lens is still in good condition, it works very well, take care of nicely. In the past i used it quite often to take landscape , journalism, people and travel photo. The reason i am letting go my 17-55mm  because of  having my 10-22mm. By having wider focal length lens, it's not necessary for me to have 17-55mm.

Lens is considered pretty good, always keep it in dry box if not being used, here are some photos of it,

front view of EF-S 17-55mm

side view of EF-S 17-55mm

The Box of EF-S 17-55mm

I still keep the Box, it keep very nicely and well take care of. I have a warranty paper as well, but it has been expired, manual book also inside the box.

Manual book of EF-S 17-55

EW-83J lens Hood for 17-55mm

Alright, those are photos of my lens 17-55 as well as manual book, lens hood. If you are really interested, please drop me email to poetoegde@gmail.com. 

Ciao.