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Out shooting during 1st snow of the year

Shooting with my brother in kansas

Shooting with my brother

Out shooting with my brother

Driving to shoot the fire in the sandhills north of town

out shooting alone west of town

Driving around during the first snow of the year. Looking for some cool nature shots

FALL 2012 SOUTH PLATTE RIVER. North Platte Nebraska

Street performers in front of Uffizi Gallery

A Bali dancer in her best position. Her expression made me interested to capture her.

A gandrung dancer in 'welcome' position. Gandrung is one of traditional dance in Indonesia.

A Balinese man was looked happy while he was doing Melasti. Melasti is ceremony to purify themselves from sins.

Ketoprak actors and actrees was doing their performance, and seen by a man. Ketoprak is a kind of theater in Indonesia.

Some people was playing gamelan. Gamelan is traditional musical instrument of Java culture, Indonesia.

This is the picture of a theater backstage. The theater called Ketoprak, from Indonesia. The mood of light and the people make me interested to capture it.

I walked into the antique shop and saw this doll staring at me with her old eyes. This is an unforgettable moment, it symbolize of the meaning of life.

An actor of ketoprak was preparing himself before the show. Ketoprak is a kind of theater in Indonesia culture.

Husband and wife examined rice fields before harvest season coming.

Rice terraces close to harvest season.

Old lady Hmong on lighting the way home with her grand daughter.

Young Hmong girl waiting for her friends on the way to market under raining and foggy day.

The mother carries her children on the way to market.

Young Hmong girl tried to sun-dry corn cobs after the harvest.

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

A Balinese man was looked happy while he was doing Melasti. Melasti is ceremony to purify themselves from sins.

A Balinese man was looked happy while he was doing Melasti. Melasti is ceremony to purify themselves from sins.

TAGS: Indonesia

Fitriyana Rachmayani

Sidoarjo, Indonesia

Member since 2014

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© Fitriyana Rachmayani.
All rights reserved.

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digital

Date Taken:

09.2012

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Oct. 29, 2012, 6:35 a.m.

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Canon EOS 30D

Focal Length:

50mm

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1/6400

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f1.8

ISO:

ISO250

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