As part of Canon Photo Marathon Asia 2011, this event is one of the biggest photo competition event in Indonesia. Other participating countries are Singapore, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia.

Canon Photo Marathon Indonesia 2011 took place in Yogyakarta (September 24th) and Jakarta (October 1st), and we are attending the Jakarta event. Managed by PT Datascrip as an exclusive distributor of Canon camera products, claimed that more than 3000 photographer, both from Yogyakarta and Jakarta, participated in this event . Besides photo competition, there are also some photography workshops conducted by professional photographers in Indonesia. Winners of the photo competition will receive, of course, Canon cameras, and tickets to Photo Clinic to Tasmania, Australia.

During the event, we managed to shots some pole panoramas at the location, which is Ancol Eco Park. This place is amazingly huge, even with 2500+ participants wandering around to get their best shots for the competition, there are still many areas un-explored by them. Below is 10 panoramas (out of 18) that we took using a 9 feet pole to get a ‘different perspective’ of the event. (more…)

Java Rockin’land is one amongst several music festival in Indonesia, organized by PT. Java Festival Production (founded by Peter Gontha). Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival and Jakarta International Java Soulnation are the other two renowned festivals held by the company.

For rock music enthusiast, JRL Festival is one event that you surely don’t want to skip! Held in the course of 3 days, the event was reportedly packed with so many people. Day 1 was accounted by over 10.000 visitors! Don’t have an actual number over Day 2 & 3, but Dewi Gontha, as the Producer of the event, targeted 60.000 visitors for the whole event.

Local & Internatinal rock band were listed, such as PAS band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Edane, God Bless, Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE, The Cranberries, Edane, Good Charlotte, Helloween, and a lot more of it!

We attend the event only at Day 2, and made some 360° panoramic shots of the concert. Power Slaves, Konspirasi, Kunci, God Bless, G-Pluck Beatles are some of the bands that we’ve had capture quite successfully. Unfortunately its not our luck to get a good capture during Ed Kowalczyk and The Cranberris performance. (more…)