Jailolo, I'm Coming!"

"Jailolo, I'm Coming!" Blog Contest yang diselenggarakan oleh Festival Teluk Jailolo dan Wego Indonesia" 

When I was checking out wego's facebook page and saw the "Festival Teluk Jailolo", it got me wondered and asked Mr. Google. The name is rather unfamiliar and my photographer’s friends haven’t talk about it. I checked Mr. Google's images and ended up with "wow", a must to capture their festival with my better-half". Of course, who doesn't want to show to the world, for a place that is still unheard or discovered by many and the best about it? It's in Indonesia!

One of the reasons of wanting to see and capture this festival is to show the world about the beauty of Indonesia other than Bali, Bromo and Komodo Island. There are tons of awesome places in Indonesia and yet they didn't get a chance to be locally or internationally known. And seeing what I’ve seen in Google, I’m sure that by the time of next year, this festival would be flooded with photographers and travellers as it’ll make them even more curious when they see the awesome images produces by this year photo-shoots!

Another reason is although I’m an Indonesian but I haven’t gotten any chance to capture any Indonesian’s traditional festivals. So imagine how super excited I will be and of course, I’m hoping my fiancé to come along because captures great human-interest photos while I’m more into capturing events. Just imagine on how powerful our images will be when we combine our photos and promote them.

“Picture speaks louder” that is how I'll promote Jailolo publicly. The sharing’s button in Facebook (or any social media) will be one of the tools I’ll be using – shared my images with simple captions and posting my images into some photography’s communities. Online promotion reaches local and international target market. Although it may not reach a specific target market but it will be a good way to brand the place, which is a win-win solution too. As we all know by doing TV commercials and newspapers ads we would be spending hundreds and hundreds of millions, perhaps half-billions or more! 

Radio commercial is good but remember, once people talk about the place, those radio DJs will eventually “mentioned and discussed” the place. Simply, it means free promotion. Yes, you can invite some famous radio DJs, photographers (or the rising ones) and bloggers to experience the place. And another way to promote is to put the images into some photography’ exhibitions and many more.

Well, I’m giving very simple and effective advertising methods because we are promoting a place not a service. For promoting a place, picture speaks louder and more influential than words. Once they get “aw” by the photos, eventually, they will be seeking information and promoting the place through words even by means they haven’t been there yet. This is a very simple, inexpensive and accurate promotion for promoting a new place as Facebook, bloggers, and exhibitions do the wonder.

Quick Gateway : BROMO Day 2 (Part 2)

We continued the journey to I don't know what the place called but if you go to Bromo, then the driver will be bringing you to this place. If you have missed the first part, then do click here : BROMO DAY 2. Anyway, to go to this place, took around 5 - 20 minutes journey and still can't remember, no matter how many times I tried to recall the name. This huge place is very famous for horse and car racing and we hope we can catch the horse race rituals around 22nd or 28th August.  Seeing this place and capturing them made you feel like we need the widest lens ever been invented because the place is so beautiful. Especially when you can get the clear blue sky which unfortunately, we didn't get that but even we missed it yet its still beautiful.

Okay! now the truth has to be told and knowing I believe myself is a queen, so I decided to hire the horse instead of walking and hiking through the mountain ha-ha-ha! You can rent a horse in here too and we hired them for 150,000 IDR per person for return. Although it's expensive (and you can bargain if you are local) but I think it's worth it than to take the whole journey to up and get doomed before we go to the next place. Mr. Gwumpieh is the most happiest person on earth at that day, in that time as after so many years, finally, he could ride a horse and see how dashing he's in the photo (who took?ME #proud :p)

And while I was waiting for them to go up in the hill, I decided to just take pictures of the horses and oh my horse's name is Harun, 6 years old and male. Say hello to Harun everyone and isn't he look too adorable? He looks more like a donkey than a horse in the pictures but I really fell in love with him and would love to own him!

Done with my first horse photography and now, here are the random photos of the place we took which I knew I didn't take a good ones but I guess, it's enough to see its beauty.OH yeah I forgot to tell that these photos aren't edited and fresh from my Sony Nex-7's camera with HDR tones

 

WAIT! the journey continues and this time we go to the famous mountain called " The Telletubies" and goodness me, such an awesome place for pre-wed photoshoot

Hello Friday!

Since the client requested for a sneak peek so I just randomly chose whatever attractive photos my sore eyes saw ha-ha-ha! Today, we got so tired due to unimportant long traffic from Plaza Indonesia to FX which is supposedly only took around 15 minutes with no traffic. But was so happy as well that we had our favorite food at the street stall in front of Plaza Indonesia. Their street stall sells a lot of good food in very reasonable price which made both of us addicted and craved for long. Actually, it's such a lovely friday when I recalled back and also we got a new offer, a new challenge and feel so much bless for the upcoming exhibition in this month and looking forward for more exhibitions in the future. This time, with a proper team, we are looking forward for presenting our kids' photography business in a lot better and more presentative ways. I'm quite groggy but I know HE have given this task at the right time and we just need to grab the opportunity and BE BETTER.

And once again, my time flew just like that, had no idea what I did but it's almost 2.30am in here and both of my eyes are just craving for a good sleep! Time flew too fast most of time and I hope I can utilized time in a better way and start to grown up.  Anyway, here are my favorite images from Denver's birthday and more photos can be seen at my kids' photography page on Facebook : Lil Sunshine Photography and don't forget to like and share :D! 

Quick Gateway III : BROMO's OMG Trip ( DAY 2 Part 1)

Previous Blog : DAY 1  and me and Gwumpieh's ordinary Photo but look like PRE-WED  (seriously, you have to look at our photos! taken by the awesome girls and edited by me #proud :p)