Today, we checked out of our hotel in KK, jumped in the minivans and headed south. Our destination was a small village on the ocean called Kuala Penyu.
From here, we boarded a boat for the short island-hop across to Pulau Tiga (Pulau means Island). The locals more colloquially refer to this now as Survivor Island, due to the fact that the first season of that tv reality show was filmed here.
The bar is full of photos and memorabilia from the days when the film crew and contestants inhabited the island.
We arrived early in the afternoon, and I immediately grabbed a few shots of the main beach and the jetty, while the other members of the group got familiar with their cabins and the layout of the resort.
The image with the jetty disappearing into the middle of the frame is shot with what is known as a “10 stop filter”. A “stop” is how we photographers measure the quantity of light, and what a 10 stop filter does is to reduce the amount of light getting into the lens by a factor of 1000 (‘stops’ are measure logarithmically, not linearly). The filter looks like the same material used for a welder’s mask…. almost opaque.
So if your camera told you you needed 1/100sec for a correct exposure, you would multiply that duration by 1000 to find the shutter speed required if you were going to shoot through a 10 stop filter (so 1/100sec would become 1min 40sec).
It is this ability to keep the shutter open for such long durations that allows you to achieve such smooth glossy surfaces on water that would normally show ripples and waves.
Mid-afternoon, Nasha suggested we all head up to the “mud volcano”, in the middle of the island about a 1km walk form the resort. We were advised not to take anything we didn’t want covered in mud.
Normal people left their cameras at the resort.
I’m clearly not “normal people”. 🙂
I decided that I would:
* take my camera AND a bottle of water,
* get some shots of everyone in the mud first,
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* get out of the mud,
* rinse (at the very least) my hands with the water, so I could carry my camera back to the resort without it getting mud all over it.
All good in theory.
What I didn’t factor in was that the boys would get a bit carried away. One of the two boys from Melbourne splashed his brother’s face with mud. So, my bottle of water ended up being used to rinse his eyes out.
It all ended ok. Eyes got washed out, and a little bit of water was left, so I was still able to rinse my hands afterward.
After we had all had a good play in the mud (this stuff was sooooo viscous, it was crazy. You couldn’t sink in it if you tried!), we got out and had to wander back to the resort (remember…. about 1km!) still caked in drying mud. We all waddled into the ocean to rinse off, and created a massive mud cloud in the water, which took about an hour to dissipate.
Someone got a group photo of all of us after we’d been in the mud. I will endeavour to get a copy of that image and add it to this post.
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Brilliant pictures!