Visual Ethnography

Heavy hung the canopy of blue Shade my eyes and I can see you Contemplation @Sendang Sumberjaya Gondanglegi Malang East Java White is the light that shines through the dress that you wore She lay in the shadow of the wave Hazy were the visions of her playing Green grass and my fish farm (tambak) @Lamongan East Java Sunlight on her eyes but moonshine beat her blind everytime Green is the colour of her kind Night before Kelud Eruption @Wates Kulon Progo Yogyakarta  Quickness of the eye deceives the mind Many is the bond between the hopefull and the damned  My best friend, My Motor Cycle @Magelang  (Courtesy of Pink Floyd's Song)

"Laut untuk Masa Depan" is the tagline that I found not far from the entrance gate of glagah Beach tourism - Kulon Progo Jogjakarta. This area was once the spotlight on the construction airports and iron mine, to forward this region will become a Center for investment and community can experience the dilemma between conservation of nature with the influx of money from outside. Farmers would prefer to trade off on planting watermelons. Fishermen would prefer to become a laborer instead of having to search for fish struggled. It already exists in the view of young people on there.  Pantai Glagah, afternoon on 24 august 2014   ...billow waves and tourists... ....traditional market on the edge of the coast..  

We are what that call mere peasant Who were created by God in sincere love Whe who live by out own toil We are those peasant, always in poverty, always sacrificing No rest from work, suffer more and more While others depend on us Good Morning... ...ready to work... ..irigation..

March 31, 2014 I visited tourism based forest (ecotourism) in Karanganyar Central Java. Grojogan Sewu Waterfall be an attraction visitors want traveled as well as sports. Any attraction another of tourism area is existence apes. Apes as if welcome the visitors and not get quite upset the inflow in the area of human life. Be the keeper of parking lot...  ...There is a story about what is called possession and privatization.... ..moving... ..monkey with plastic bottle. .."This is mine"... Many tailless monkeys long (Macaca Fascicularis) coming and feeds on refuse their food that is not be their natural food. Diet changed make always relies with food waste are directly or indirectly given by visitors through the junk produced.

Most of the volcanoes across the world are situated at special zones. These are quite strategically located all across the Pacific Ocean. Hence, the areas of the Pacific are collectively termed as Pacific Ring of Fire . Mount Kelud: Volcano in Indonesia has eruption in 13 February 2014 10.50 PM. Mt Kelud spews ash and sand over six-mile radius, grounding flights. The ash cloud reached 18 miles into the atmosphere and fell to Earth in towns and cities across the region, including Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, and even farther afield in Yogyakarta, where motorists were forced to switch on their headlights in daylight. I also feel the impact of eruption mountain kelud. See from the evening news on television and a social network. The morning after waking up the sky jogja be slightly dark and ash volcanism tumbling. Refuge from vulcanic ash... ...the road of Yogyakarta during the valentine day...

The nature and beautiful cereal offering a distinctive cultural java around the site is the initial impression when entering the tomb of the Kings of Java in the past. Makam Raja-Raja Mataram Imogiri  the tomb complex is located in the hills of Imogiri, Bantul Yogyakarta. There is a belief on the part of the Java community is that the hills and mountains of high status and human closeness with God. For the cemetery complex remains a sacred precinct with limited permission for visitors to meet the requirements if you want to make a pilgrimage. Panteism.. ...sacred gate... ...rocky road..

Ferryboat between two islands, daily activities in the middle run economic life harder. The construction of the bridge has been famous not eliminate activity crossing from the island of Madura to Java through the port of Surabaya (Tanjung Perak). Kerapan Sapi  ...take shelter.. ..warning... ..carrying other vehicles..