in about thirty years I think these pictures will be interesting to look back on …

despite photography being almost the national hobby (smoking beats it), I get a few funny looks today, shooting fill flash in glaring sunlight. the suits, in Shinjuku.
here’s the way I have done it since the eighties…set the flash to auto (not TTL), select the widest auto aperture, in this case it’s F5.6. Set the lens to two stops smaller aperture, ie F11. Now the flash will complement but not overpower, the ambient light. Shutter speed can be set manually depending on how or little ambient light you want. for this one I shot at 1/400th. and processed in Nik EFX
The Golden River (Kali Mas in Javanese) is a traditional seaport located at Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. During the times of the Dutch East Indies, this river was heavily utilized as a goods transport route. Pacing canoes and small boats transporting goods and commodities fish catch of fishermen and large trade ships unload commodity goods at the port of Tanjung Perak, where smaller ships take over and distribute the trade goods to inland.

Until now catching and fish processing activities still can be seen in the area along the river although on a small scale. Whereas institution related to Kalimas public Port management, seems to no longer care at continuity that have age traditional port life hundreds of this year. The many dirt cause water quality and environmental along the length of Kalimas is not balmy like formerly.