"Quick Photo Tips" Make your Lanscapes Personal

Spiritual Landscapes

Baron Beach in Yogyakarta Indonesia

How To Make Spiritual Landscapes.., Let's try this Photo Tips...

Look into Your self, and find your instincts about the scene. This Sounds very zen, but it's the kind of thing that will help you to break into your own style.

We're so inundated with other photographers vision that sometimes we can't help but simply imitate some one else's shot. That's a valid way to progress in photography.

However, when you get in touch with your own unique vision of the landscape, you will truly be making spiritual Landscapes.

Let's Try.. Now lets seeing this photos...

Baron Beach with blue sky..

a Sailor Boat with one screen

Sepanjang Beach In Yogyakarta

* All photos produces by Ika Hilal Photography. The Indonesian Photographer.

Transportation Model In Indonesia

Any ways to reach our purpose. To the Market, Visiting Family, Picnic, studying, delivery order and others...
yes.. they are need Transportation. Any unique ways to reach it..

Now... we will showing, about transportation model the people get the purpose.


this is the ancient transportation, using horse to pull the horse train. in Jogjakarta, usually train horse using 4 wheel from rubber.


This is bamboo bridge transportation. when the people divide into river.. they should be accross the river to get the purpose. Only walking man and bicycle can using it.


If someone get picnic or go the market, near from home, the interesting ways is using Becak, The Train by someone encourage wit oar bicycle paddle.




it's more modern way, by pick up mobile. Anyone stand up in back of mobile, while bring their product.

in special area, the model transportation like that, still using. But now the quantity more reducer, remove by modern way transportation.

" Tegel Kunci " A Traditional Ceramics in Jogja

Almost all old building/houses in Jogja, using Ceramics with key motif. or in javanesse is "TEGEL KUNCI".

These photos take in Great Masjid / Mosque in Yogyakarta. Great Masjid is near of Keraton Yogyakarta, west of keraton. see its...



The Cat and Tegel Kunci "Key Ceramics"



The Cat is sleeping...

Look at the Motive. Usually the colour of Ceramics is uniform, Brown colour and yellow dominated most of ceramics.




and this is Tegel Kunci in ancient building in Yogyakarta


Ok... Enough... "Tegel Kunci" The art Traditional Ceramics in Jogja.

"Egrang Dolanan Bocah" The Art Traditional Games of Children

I'm Back...
No I'll to show of the art traditional games of Children in Yogyakarta. One of famous traditional games for children is Egrang.

Egrang Games is someone step on bamboo, or on Coconut shell. their foot is bounded with nail slope rope. Like this photos...

The unique of egrang, someone must walking as balance to avoid drop to ground. In this egrang parade, Egrang Player play music. yes.. its musical drum band.





at this photos, child walking with coconut shell, plok.. plok.. plok.. Nice sound from coconut shell.




Some of children playing egrang with coconut shell together...

Next.. I'll showing another art traditional from Jogja...

"Jatilan" The Art Traditional of Djogja

On a particular Event, in Yogyakarta often held people party. They are showing many traditional art performance.

They are do present the carnival dances as typical of each region. One is Jathilan. they are dance, singing and attracting of acrobat. The participants Can be their Father or mother and son to enliven it.
We see the image below

The Children participants ...



Adults participants as father from their child




This is hia mother / Mom ....




and this is Carnaval Jathilan


Well, this an attraction on the road... held poniard. but don't worry it's just Toy.

Traditional Children Toy

The Children World are Play world . They learn how to life with play.
It means the child is playing on the toys. Toys children hang on social-cultural Conditions

Toy Seller is playing Paper Puppet

Children of the city, will play with different ways with the village children. The City of Children is usually more developed in terms of game tool. They are used to play with the station, game station etc.. Meanwhile, the village children, they usually play more natural. Playing with nature.

Well, ... in Yogyakarta as city of culture, traditional toys are still found growing among children. His name is paper puppet. But one off the interesting .. Puppet paper is based on a TV cartoon character who developed at this time.

sure, one off learning, maintaining the tradition with the nuances of the present.

Please see photos below....

Toy seller in Yogyakarta

Father.. sell children toy for family living.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPER from Indonesia "SAMBAL"

Are You know Sambal?

RED HOT CHILI PEPPER... Ha... ha.. Ha... But Delicious.

In Indonesia, if we're eating, it is not complete without the presence of Sambal. Eating without Sambal, such as vegetables without salt, insipid.



Sambal is a major complement in food. Chili is Raw materials of Sambal. That can be used red chili, green, waved, and others.


It is Green Chili Sambal



Chili as Source of raw materials of Sambal, and with a little creativity, result various sambal and also it can be used to complement different food. There is paste sambal, sambal pecel , sambal tempe, sambal Penyet and others.
Sure we will love it.

In culinary festival, attend various sambal be presented. Lets see .. it


It's Red Hot Chili



It's Montain Chili Sambal


It's Terasi / Paste Sambal....




It's Only in Indonesia..
Are you Interesting..? Command let's go to Indonesia, a Beautiful Country in Katulistiwa.