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I arrived at Pulau Ketam a day after a completed boat had been launched. What remained were remnants of the craft. The workers had all retired to the Kampung in preparation of the evening prayers. ©ismaillagardien Sea explorers from Nusantara set foot on the African Continent through Madagascar since the early days of Christian era…
Shoutout to my favourite coffee shop in Kuala Terengganu. Escofi Kopitiam, in China Town. Follow them on Instagram. The people are friendly, and after a while they knew what I was there for.
I set out a few weeks ago to give photography another try. I had sold the last of my film equipment, my beloved Nikon F5 almost two decades ago, and bought an entry-level digital camera. My work as a writer, an academic and in policy-making had made it difficult to fully embrace photography to the…
I really should write more… Because of the difficulty, and mainly because of time constraints, I really don’t have the time to study meticulously the light-measuring systems and multiple focus modes of digital cameras. Then again, I’m too wedded to old-fashioned manual film photography. In the meantime, I have attempted to use the Nikon X6ii…