I titled this shot ‘Blackfin Sundowners’ for somewhat obvious reasons – the prominent Blackfin on the sail of the largest boat and the fact that the sun is setting.
Category Archives: Water In today’s photo, two fishermen play the waiting game shortly after sunrise somewhere near Kota Kinabalu. I’ve no idea what they were waiting for… 
[...] from yesterday’s photo, here’s another taken around the same time a little further along the shore of other [...]  The shack on the landing is a fuel depot for the longboats of the community. What I still fund curious is that ‘Slow Down’ is written in English. I only ever saw locals driving boats on the rivers. Maybe they determined ‘Melambatkan’ wouldn’t fit in large enough letters to be visible until it was too late. Or maybe they determined it was only English reading explorers that were speeding on the rivers.  Just like those bigger riverboats, the Soon Hong No. 7 carried a spare drive shaft and propeller. I still don’t know how they would have gone about changing that mid-river.  The photo below is of some flowstone in a cave in Mulu. Flowstone is formed from calcite where water flows down a wall. As the water is agitated, it outgasses it’s carbon dioxide leaving behind calcium carbonate, aragonite, gypsum or other minerals that were previously dissolved in the water.
[...] so actually it’s the same flowstone as yesterday, just a different [...]  The shot below is perhaps the classic Deer Cave shot. Mine is actually a seven-shot HDR – seven slides scanned and merged in Photomatix Pro.  Deer Cave boasts some impressive measurements – passage length of over 4 kilometers with a one kilometer stretch with a width of 174 m and a height of 122 m. The main entrance (photo below) has been measured at 146 m. Indeed, you can get an idea of the scale from the two men that appear in the photo.
[...] we went further into the massive passage that is Deer Cave, I turned around and got this shot back to the [...]
[...] left Mulu and returned to Miri, I took a flight over the Kota Kinabalu and then a mini-van over to the [...]  The trail we were following to get to our bat flight viewing experience ran close to the cliff edge in places as you can see in the photo below, of a longboat heading downriver.
[...] trekked to our viewing place it was time to hang out and wait for the sun to go down and the bats of Mulu to take [...]  From high on a hillside we had a great view down onto the river and the new arrivals coming upstream. This photo was taken in the Gunung Mulu National Park in 1989. 
Hi! You followed me on twitter and I was wondering if you had any advice or commentary on my photos on my blogger. Anything wold be greatly appreciated! 
Just beautiful. 
Thanks for your comment. I really like your Crossroads Junction work!
Hi Harrison, I’ve made a note to look at your site on Friday when I have an ‘office day’.
Thanks Richard. I really need to put more work up  This is the same boat and same guides that brought me to Mulu from Long Terawan (and that would return me to Long Terawan two days later for my return trip.
[...] viewing experience ran close to the cliff edge in places as you can see in the photo below, of a longboat heading [...]
[...] Daily Photo – Commuting in Mulu – Richard Davis Photography This is the same boat and same guides that brought me to Mulu from Long Terawan (and that would return me to Long Terawan two days later for my return trip. http://www.richarddavisphotography.com/…/daily-photo-commutin…; [...] |
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