Tag: Sabah

• unexpected encounters #16: envoi

  Il faut confronter des idées vagues avec des images claires. Jean-Luc Godard, in La Chinoise commentary We were staying at the Hyatt Centric hotel in Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, overlooking the South China Sea.  The sunsets there are renowned.  As I stepped out from our twentieth-story air-conditioned room onto the balcony to capture the scene,…

  dereksayer

  April 1, 2024

  cities, hotels, landscape, seas, skies

  Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Sabah

• blues + yellows #2

  #1 Johor Bahru #2-3 Siem Reap #4-5 Hanoi Jan-Feb 2016 #1-3 Saigon Feb 2016 #4 Frankfurt March 2016 #1-2 Frankfurt #3-4 Berlin #5-7 Prague (Karlín) March-April 2016 #1-4 Prague (Karlín + Žižkov) #5-6 Prague-Brno rail journey April 2016 Calgary, 2016-2017 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah February 2023 Kuching, Sarawak February 2023

  dereksayer

  June 9, 2023

  artworks, cafés, cities, colors, food, graffiti, Luci, markets, museums, people, rail journeys, street photography, trains

  Berlin, Brno, Calgary, Cambodia, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Malaysia, Prague, Sabah, Saigon, Sarawak, Siem Reap, Vietnam

• are, bure, boke #2

  The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…

  dereksayer

  May 21, 2023

  adverts, Americana, artworks, cafés, cities, Ex Situ, exhibitions, food, graffiti, hotels, museums, night, people, photographers, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows, street photography

  Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Marathon, Mexico City, New York, Sabah, Texas

• (in perfect harmony)

  #1 Diana, New York, April 2008 #2 London summer 2001 #3 Marfa, TX, April 2011 #4 Little India, Singapore, December 2005 #5 Paekakeriki, New Zealand, December 2000 #1-2 Kaeo + Kawakawa, New Zealand, November-December 2000 #3 Vermilion County, LA, March 2014 #4 Terlingua, TX, April 2014 #1 + 2, Marfa, TX, April 2014 #3 Whangerei,…

  dereksayer

  May 10, 2023

  adverts, Americana, cafés, cities, murals, people, rural, street photography

  Banff, Beijing, Calgary, Cambodia, China, Hanoi, Kota Kinabalu, London, Louisiana, Malaysia, Marfa, New York, New Zealand, Prague, Sabah, Siem Reap, Singapore, Terlingua, Texas, Vietnam

• our excellent gastronomic journey in Singapore, Johor, Sabah, and Sarawak

  January 27 – February 21, 2023 Singapore: #1 roti canai at 3.00 a.m. at all-night diner on Bencoolen Street #2 Malay breakfast at Putra Minang restaurant, Bencoolen Street #3 wonton noodles at Tiong Bahru market #4 Chilli Padi Nonya Restaurant, Joo Chiat Place #5-6 white pepper crab at hawker center Singapore: #1-3 Hainanese chicken rice…

  dereksayer

  May 9, 2023

  cafés, cities, food, markets, museums, restaurants

  Borneo, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore

• are, bure, boke #1

  The Japanese photographers associated with the Provoke group, whose best-known member was Daido Moriyama, espoused an aesthetic of “Are, Bure, Boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus.” There can be many reasons for blurry images – too low a shutter speed, too wide an aperture, camera shake, reflections, errors in focusing, a dirty lens – but the…

  dereksayer

  March 21, 2023

  cities, hotels, night, people, photographers, reflections, shop windows, shopping malls, street photography

  Japan, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Sabah, Singapore, Tokyo