Almost Unforgotten Bali (Most beautiful moment in Indonesia)

Just came back from Bali last Thursday. I was a tiring trip, considering I took 30-hour flights to stay only for 5 days, but worth it. I had a chance to be upclose personal with a glimpse of Indonesia's almost forgotten life - Petani di sawah (translation : farmer on the rice field). The last decade, when people talk about Indonesia, first picture I had was Jakarta the Cosmopolitan.

I saw this farmer somewhere at Sidemen (eastern Bali), I was doing my small "walk" on the rice terrace and he was there, right in front of me, working on Sunday afternoon. This was typical image we had seen on Indonesian local TV station back at my Primary's years, but later on, everybody tend to forget how the rice on their plate had been produced - isn't that sad?

I had some people asked me how to make this type of picture. It's actually quite easy, first, I edit the picture with my Adobe Photoshop CS4 extended - I put the picture to almost black and white, gave a bit sepia tone on it, add the scratch and dust to give the old feeling. What make it different is actually I add an mask from my digital scrapbooking elements collection as a layer to my edited picture. It was the mask which gave the folded mark on the picture. And by the end, I just flatten the image all together. As simple as that.

Image information : I took the picture with my Canon EOS 5D mark II using Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6L USM IS

Words for my dentist.....(just for fun, please don't take it seriously)

I went to my dentist this morning, nothing serious, just a regular control. This is the least expected day of the year for me. I scare to death to a dentist, and I believe I haven't mention that my sister is a dentist ;) on her graduation day, I've told her..."you can forget that I will be visiting you oneday." LOL

Project DigiScrap.

It's holiday season...so, I am in the mood to make something very special - DigiScrap (digital Scrapbook). Why now ? Well, actually I am in my mission to make a personalized travel diary for myself...so in between, I will try to make out something that has the holiday theme on it just to merry this holiday season.

I think this digiscrap project will continue later on, but of course with different theme depends on the time I made it (seasons, other holidays, special events, etc) and of course my mood....LOL

If you would like to make one for yourself, this is one of the best site I would recommended , Shabby Princess (http://www.shabbyprincess.com/ ) , but let me say this....SCRAPBOOKING is very addicted ;)

Have a great one,


Novita