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Where am I?
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Copyright: Am moving (trekks) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2016 W: 144 N: 3390] (13589)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-03-10
Categories: Daily Life, Nature, Architecture
Camera: Nikon D80, 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6GED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Ni, SD 2GB, Hoya 67mm Circular Polarizer
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/60 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: Trip to Sabah - Land below the wind
Theme(s): Best attractions of Borneo 1 [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-06-22 19:01
Viewed: 835
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 99
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
EDIT:The blue part of sky looks like a dolphin?

Where am I? except the sky, the sun...there is no clock, no cellphones, no amenities, no facilities of modern day living. Just a few wooden houses on stilt and sandy island of coconut grove, in the middle of sea, and where roaming about the island or the sea for daily needs is a way of life for these Sea Bajau villagers. Due to time rush by boatman to return to mainland, we did not spend a night here to experience how the Sea Bajau go through the nights. It can be totally different meaning of the word 'NIGHT' here for visitors, with a camera and tripod of course to catch moonlit scenery. More of a survival lifestyle for you and me, but to the islanders, they live for more than 30 years out here and pass down traditions to next generation. No ripples really, because there is no wind or wave. This area is well shielded.

Do not forget polarizer or ND filters when you visit these islands, and spare memory cards.

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Hi Bill,

the sky is worth mentioning for it catches my first sight. the shape of the blue sky at the centre, sandwiched between the clouds, looks like a dolphin swimming to the right. you better have a closer look at it.

the seascape is no less beautiful and the dwellings are...TRULY Sea Bajau!

TFS
Regards
Agoes

Thanks for viewing my The Two Siblings.

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  • dareco Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1717 W: 16 N: 840] (15139)
  • [2008-06-22 19:37]

The lighting and colors here are really beautiful. A very peaceful scene. TFS and have a great week!

Hai Bill,

Great capture, with the cirus clouds this picture looks great.

TFS
Best Regards
Keep on Kliking
Steve

Very beautiful photo. It looks like a dream world. Everything is great, the sky, water, & building.

God Bless,
Rick

WOW the sky was so different and it catches my eyes, your compo was great very good colors the house the boat and the water perfect shot

cris(",)

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  • linus Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1474 W: 10 N: 738] (10739)
  • [2008-06-22 21:14]

Hi Bill,
Lovely image. Th eoverall blueness of the picture caught my eye. The houses on the stilts looks great against the sky-water background. There does not appear to be any surf at all here.
Sunil

Hi Bill...this is a nicely composed, sharp shot...nice job.

Roger

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3269 W: 267 N: 7730] (32962)
  • [2008-06-22 21:57]

Life stops still over there Bill.
Lovely image - awesome view, good colours and lighting, and very good focus and sharpness.
Well done
Janice

I'd love to be there too.

hello Bill
what you said? "Where am I", the place itself is saying very loudly and clearly, that this is "Heaven on the Earth".
man where did you get this place.
just amazing
what lovely colours are these! wonderful view.
such an eye catching scenery
what a sky, what lovely huts are these above the water level.
amazing man, now i am geting envy of you, haha haha.
well done my friend.
regards
Manuj Mehta

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  • emka Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 118 W: 0 N: 66] (1141)
  • [2008-06-22 22:31]

Hi Bill,
Wonderful photo, I like these simple houses, the ocean and the boat. I must be wonderful to spend holidays here. But to live here? I am afraid it would not for me. Wonderful sky with delicate clouds.

TFS

Malgorzata

Magical atmosphere. The colour of the water and sand is amazing! Perfect sense of a specific place and time.
Serge

good morning dear bill
magnificent colours and bech.magnificent blue sky and lovely houses.well done.
best regards.
gürkan akçakır.

oh, it's really wonderful.. so nice.. so beautiful!! excellent the DOF.. and the compo works so well, with beautiful colours indeed!! many thanks
ciao Marco

Hi Bill,

No need to answer where you are - because this picture tells it all. What a place, what a wonderful composition, that turquoise water is enormously attractive. Our Sea is all dark and grey.
I'm sure you needed spare memory cards here!
TFS
Els

No doubt, you was in Semporna, Bill.
Glad you did not had to send this loveley picture by cell phone to TL. haha
Life as it, Bill.! Only get what you really need.!
Thanks for showing.
Would be nice to stay there, but not too long, haha
Best regards from Jan

You r in the dreamland...

Hello Bill,
Very nice scene and great mood here,i like to see here, the clear water and the beautiful things in the water..my friends said "Samporna" sound like that is the best place to take pictures..i heard also there is "Orang Asli" there.
Anyway this is very excellent capture with beautiful scene and nice clouds too..:)

CM

Thanks for your kind words on "Insect S1".

Hie Bill,

How are you doing? Wow Sabah definitely has a lot of beautiful beaches with crystal clear seawater. I really like these series of yours. Hopefully one day I will be able to go there.

TFS,
Hong

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  • pozaru Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3546 W: 737 N: 2382] (18952)
  • [2008-06-23 2:44]

wow, you've been in Heaven, it seems ...


thanks,
v

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  • chrisJ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4203 W: 414 N: 6578] (41791)
  • [2008-06-23 3:11]

Hi Bill

I like the wavy, layered bands of the 2 cloud formations & the magnificent turquoise colour of the sea. Good sharpness & contrast. Tfs!

Hi Bill,
Excellent picture, landscape and colors
Wonderful place to visit and to forget daily occupation
Well done

Bright, fantastic and beautiful. It's just like seeing a scene with fresh clear eyes. Good work Bill. Danilo

Hi Bill,
A 'kopitiam' talk... "we don't need cellphones, amenities or whatever modern day living facilities. We will simply forget those things when we step onto the sand of the island, seeing how wonderful is the scenery", my media friends told me about their experience of visiting this place. Seeing your shots of this beautiful place, alongside with what Rabani's, I don't have any reason to doubt.

If I can make it some day, visiting this heavenly beautiful place... I will possibly asking myself... WHERE AM I?

Regards,
Ramdan.

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  • milas Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2708 W: 405 N: 2948] (32537)
  • [2008-06-23 6:51]

Merhaba myfriend Dear Bill..
verynice shot and pov...superb colors and focus..bravo..selamlar

Hi Bill,
From where I'm sitting this looks like paradise. Lovey the crystal clear light turquoise water of this placid baywith the old boats and crude homes sitting atop the stilts. The distant mountains and incredible sky complete this masterpiece.
Regards, Tom

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  • EOSF1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1493 W: 126 N: 2163] (19716)
  • [2008-06-23 7:24]

Hello Bill! What a beauty, very well composed scene, with a nice light. Calm and soothing, well done, thanks!

Mario

Hi Bill,
Superb crisp and clear imae. The composition is excellent and creates an attractive view in my opinion. The feather clouds are well exposed. A fine posting my friend.
Hans

Boa tarde Bill

You are lost in paradise my friend. beautiful place and capture.

My regards

teresat

Hello Bill,

it looks to be like you could be lost there for a time and then just forget the time in paradise.
Wonderful capture.
Turquoise seas. Love it.
TFS, Joni

Hi Bill,
Wonderful wooden houses on the seaside...
Nice colours and excellent details.tfs.
Dr.Seyfettin Güner

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  • iso Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1119 W: 62 N: 167] (27861)
  • [2008-06-23 10:08]

You made me dreaming 5 minutes in front of your photography. My congrats for this very interesting shot, different and well well done.

Iso.

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  • jawa Gold Star Critiquer [C: 1372 W: 0 N: 1] (12003)
  • [2008-06-23 10:23]

Hi Bill
BEAUTIFUL.
Gr Jos

Hello Bill,
Amazing and wonderfully captured image.
A peaceful atmosphere.
Congrats my friend...
TFS
Selahattin E

beautiful seascape Bill, wonderful colors of nature, perfectly captured sharp and well seen., now i want to deep myself in this sea.
regards........................andres

Hello Bill!
Wonderful seascape! Good composition! Beautiful colors and deatils! Lovely place!
TFS, Best regards, Zorica

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  • jan515 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2498 W: 56 N: 3862] (17484)
  • [2008-06-23 14:56]

Wonderful composed sky Bill,
that is really beautiful, an impressing composition and a very interesting picture with that interesting color.
Regards.
Janusz

wow! excellent capture bill! the clouds were with you that day! beautiful! colors are striking.. details are sharp.. tfs

jowhite

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  • azaf1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 740 W: 61 N: 1255] (6932)
  • [2008-06-23 22:55]

Hi Bill
I just love it. Open view a 2/3 frame and nice and serene environment. The sky of course steals the show
TFS
Argiris

Hi Bill,
what a peaceful place....
excellent compo with perfect clarity and sharpnes,
beautiful colours,
welldone and tfs,
regards,
Taner
:) tomorrow

Hi Bill, great view of wonderful place with splendid colors and fantastic sky, I like a lot transparencies of water very well done, ciao Silvio

Hello Bill. Back to the travelogue and I like it. The clear still water is always pristine to look at and the huts on stilts are just beautiful. The cooperating sky makes it complete for your composition. Very well done and best regards. Jusni

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  • mbrito Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1620 W: 118 N: 2791] (11262)
  • [2008-06-25 3:39]

...
Answer: You're in paradise.
Great posting Bill. Wonderful colours and light and a great atmosphere. I love the lines under the houses and the clear light almost magic. Congrats, mb

Hi Bill,

A great shot of a truly breathtaking scenery. Well composed photo and pleasant to the eyes. Is this photo using the 1/3 rule? Sometimes I get confused with that rule. Nice cool blue colours to soothe the a warm sunny day.

TFS.

Regards,
Alvin

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  • rigz Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 159 W: 0 N: 85] (1066)
  • [2008-06-25 20:23]

Hi Bill,

As what I said before, this shot really make me highly appreciating the nature. I can imagine how beautiful this place. You telling this place very peacefull. Sharped, detail and I enjoy viewing it.

Tq Bill.

Geoffrey B Ramji

Bill

el enfoque y nitidez bien logrados hermoso lugar

Hi Bill
This is an extemely tranquil photograph. Instead of being at work right now, I wouldnt mind laying on that beach!! Nice work!!
Christian

a very nice snapshot of a quaint houses on the beach.
colors are soothing and mild.
good job, kudos
y2koSan

beautiful and very clean water and land Bill...

Excellent landscape Bill...

TFS

Kisses from Italy??

;)

Ania

Amazing atmosphere. It is really heaven on the earth. beutiful colours and clarity.
greetings,

figen

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  • subs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 252 W: 0 N: 222] (2080)
  • [2008-07-03 7:16]

Hi Bill,
Wow what a place to be! Love the blues and the greens here. And strangely the cloud formation seems to match the shape of the island:)
Regards,
SUbashini

Could be paradise to me Bill , a scene just as i like them : sea , sky and a few huts hanging over the still water and you get yourself a fantastic photo to remember !
My compliments,
Carol

Thank for the tip about the polarizer and such : Don't leave home without them !

Hi Bill
beautiful colours
very good focus and sharpness

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