John Boyd Macdonald
John Boyd Macdonald
Almost all of the historic palaces, Buddhist temples and monasteries in Korea are in excellent repair due to careful preservation or painstaking restoration. And it is no wonder – because they are stunningly beautiful! It turns out that the unique…
I've been along to a couple of the regular working bees at the Southern Tablelands Ecosystems Park ('STEP') a.k.a. Forest 20 at the National Arboretum Canberra.
Mass transit system, Toraja style. Compact trucks like this are the almost ubiquitous means of moving large groups of people (and buffaloes, rocks, timber or whatever) around in Toraja, South Sulawesi. And in fact they are really the only feasible…
There are three ‘traditional’ markets along the waterfront of central Balikpapan. Of these, the most long-established is the Pasar Klandasan (‘Klandasan Market’). It sells a fairly comprehensive range of fresh produce and non-perishable goods, it’s cheap, it’s open long hours,…
Now that we’ve left Kalimantan (at least for the time being), it’s an opportunity to catch up up some photos from other places. So I’ve been (finally) processing photographs taken in Singapore last December, when we were there on a…
Around this time last year I wrote about the seasonal smoke haze that blights large parts of Southeast Asia each dry season. But last year looks mild in retrospect, as 2015 is shaping up to be the worst year on record. And without doubt the worst place…
One of the many nice things about working of the Agricultural Project of the Yayasan Usaha Mulia (hereinafter just ‘YUM Agro’) is that I get to meet the project participants, and to spend time making photographs in the seven villages in which YUM works.…
The Mahakam River runs for just under 1000km from the Muller Mountains in the ‘Heart of Borneo’ southeast to the provincial capital of East Kalimantan (Samarinda) and the coastal delta, eventually discharging into the Makassar Strait. It’s very wide and muddy in…