I am lagging on my Project 365 so I have to cheat a little. These are shots from my mini trip home to visit my parents (not shown). They live on a school campus in the mountains. You will see fragments of it from the shots below. The upper shots are from the buzzling metrocity of Jakarta.

I also bought an ultra wide-angle lens during my visit, the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X 116 PRO DX [read review here]. I think wide-angle photography is my new demon. Shots 062-069 were taken with the new lens.

Enjoy!

069 – Central Park
This is a brand new mall in Jakarta. Last I was there it was just a hole in the ground. Look what sprouted out of the hole.

068 – Orchid Parking
A shot from the parking lot of Vie’s favorite mall.

067 – The Island Vein
The toll road that connects Bandung to Jakarta.

066 – Mountain View
We drove up to the next hill to drop dad off for a meeting.

065 – Peekaboo
This is my brother Isaiah fooling around with a flashlight.

064 – Mountain Puppy
Met this little guy up up in the mountains. It was raining and it was cold so it was looking for some place warm to shelter. And it found us by the little bamboo hut.

063 – The Mother Crater
The famous mother crater of Bandung.

062 – Hermanos Locos
The crazy brothers. And no we don’t look too much alike but we share the same lack of sanity.

061 – Hot Chocolate
Vie coping with the Bandung cold, having a cup of hot chocolate.

060 – Peeking Pups
There’s an old professor at the campus in the mountains, and these are his pups guarding (or fertilizing) his front yard.

059 – Parasite
Not sure what type of tree this is but the bark caught my attention because it was wrapped by parasitic plants with beautiful leaves.

058 – Step Up
Steps to the parking lot on the campus in the mountains.

057 – Mountain Plants
Whatever it is, it’s green and beautiful.

056 – Into the Graves
Not sure why dad built a graveyard on the campus, but these steps take you straight there.

Another shot from the Ubud Monkey Forest, this time of the hanging roots of a sacred banyan tree.

The presence of sacred forest is a demonstration of the harmonious coexistence of humans and nature. In Bali, sanctuaries such as the Monkey Forest are usually in sacred village areas, often surrounded by temples. These cultural sanctuaries are not only an important part of Balinese heritage, but also an important part of everyday live. Temple festivals are regularly held for the villagers and the gods in such areas.

Location: Sacred Monkey Forest Ubud

This is Violaine. She is a couchsurfer and we hosted her for a few nights. This was taken at Ryan and Dana Bagus’ new house in Kuta. They adapted the word bagus , which means good in Indonesian, into their last names because for some reason it’s their favorite word.

We went to the Monkey Forest in Ubud and I was lucky to snap this photo of a monkey family.

The monkeys within the Sacred Monkey Forest of Padangtegal are commonly called long-tailed macaques. Their scientific name is Macaca fascicuiaris. Macaques are found throughout Southeast Asia and many species of macaques live successfully in areas that are heavily utilized by humans. On Bali, there are Balinese long-tailed macaque troops (populations) that live in areas where they have little to no contact with humans and troops that come into contact with humans on a regular basis. However, despite the fact that many species of macaques thrive in areas that are heavily utilized by humans, there is evidence that the viability of Balinese long-tailed macaques (the ability of macaques to continue to thrive) may be dependent upon the conservation of Bali’s forested areas.

Location: Sacred Monkey Forest Ubud

My American friends just moved down to Kuta and they found this in their yard. I guess things alike auto flock.