4th Jun 2007 Second Day Part 1

Wake up early in the morning and all have the official first shooting. Where we went?

Shooting at Pasar Ikan, Fishing Jetty, Chester Street and Pasar Besar, Tawau. There are lots of interesting subjects. (Click on photo to zoom in)

When I almost reach the jetty, I smell a very refreshing fragrance. Quickly, I dashed there, seeing crowds gathered around.
It was totally choas for me. However, I start to notice there are bags of packed mango, which smell wonderful (suddenly, felt very hungry!).

Later, it stuck me, this is a market. People is selling immediately after stocks are unloaded from the boats.

Customers selecting packed mango. Lots of choices!!!!

There are lots of other stuffs traded here.








Boat fully loaded with bananas. Workers unloading after a deal is agreed upon.





















Fishing Jetty.

Lighting was very good, ray of light fall onto these 3 fishermen that just woke up and relaxing in front of their boat.

First Day


On arrival, after checking out from Tawau Airport. There is already a welcome party, other peoples though this group of people might be VIP. Yusuf, Steven and Bani started taking photos of us.

This is also the first opportunity that I got to know who is who, as usually I know them my nickname only. Beside Malaysian group from Photomalaysia, Indonesia's group also arrived leaded by Kristupa.

After check-in to Kingston Hotel, have lunch in Sri Keningau, buffet style. Everyone start to get to know each other, very nice environment, as all are chatting about photography.

Later, we all decide to rent to 4WD landcuirser to a fishing village for our first photo shoot session.

Here are 2 photos from that session.


First, Drying salted fish near jetty. Local make salted fish from their catch. I found this interesting because they are dry hanging up. I composed it with fishing boat as background and showing the beautiful blue sky in Sabah.













Child Play

Saw group of local boys playing around their village. Compose when they were nearby cloths where hang dry under the sun.