Exploring Jakarta
I finally had my first day off in a while today. All of my travel and work has eaten up a lot of my weekends late. I'm looking forward to a few days off when I get back to Tokyo. One of my readers of ShootTokyo Wiama and his friend Astrid kindly offered to bring me out in Jakarta and show me the city. This is a city I have always wanted to go to so it was nice to see it.
We started off at a very cool photography museum with lots of images about corruption in Indonesia. It was fascinating.
Today's configuration: Leica M Monochrom with a Summicron 28mm f/2.0
I forgot that Indonesia was colonized by Japan. A sad time in history...
Meet John Nelson (apparently)...
Hair for sale
We headed over to biggest and oldest Chinese temple in Jakarta called Petak Sembilan.
After the temple we headed over to Old Jakarta to explore a bit. This nice man was selling ice cream...
Meet Wiama and Astrid...
This square was pretty fun. Everyone had selfie sticks. This is similar to what I bought for my GoPro.
On the edges of the square were these abandoned buildings we were able to get into to explore a bit...
There were actually a few other photographers in there doing photo shoots...
The building was very cool inside...
Waiting for table service...
Chairs, a cone and a very old computer...
There were a group of kids in there playing cosplay and taking images. I thought they looked pretty cool...
The one thing you see in Jakarta is a lot of smiles...
I was also able to get out for a few hours of video shooting yesterday as well. I also picked up one of those sticks for my GoPro. I want to try and use that more when I am traveling to capture some video.
Thanks for stopping by today...
