#bintan

Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

A red sunset over the Riau Islands.

This was taken with a ½-inch sensor bridge camera, an unpopular tool for landscapes but quite adequate for small images like this. The capture was underexposed by 2 stops to keep sky details. The sea was then brightened a little in post to show subtly the boat and some stakes in the water.

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Natra Bintan, Indonesia

Back in the day when we took traveling for granted either by neglecting it while burying our heads deep in work or by ill appreciating the little precious time we had in some of the most idyllic settings. How are the mighty fallen!

How many of us are feeling indignant now that remote work isn’t a Utopia like we thought it would be (at times it has proved as interesting as a brick) and travel - plausibly the least onerous of our numerous concerns at present - utterly impossible, a reality that was unthinkable just a few weeks ago?

“On the morning appointed for her departure Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.”