Last Saturday, 1 May 2010, was Labor Day. As usual, there were the usual rallies and demonstrations held by various labor unions in the city. The usual places were the Presidential Palace and the National Monument.
Trying to avoid the demonstration areas, I went to the Orchid Park. It was an old park established by the late Mrs. Tien Suharto, wife of the late Pres. Suharto. I have been wanting to shoot colorful flowers for the past month but always got too lazy to do it. Well, I finally did. And I was so pleased by what I shot there.
As it turned out, the park was no longer a park at all. It had turned into an Orchid Market. I think the government had run out of funds to maintain the place so they leased the space to orchid vendors. Fortunately, the vendors were all very kind enough to allow me to take photographs of their orchids.
It was a very colorful experience. As I found out, orchids had pretty much the same shape. But they had so many variant colors. As you can see from the two photos here, they can be dramatically different in color combinations.
I must have spent a good two hours shooting around the place. There were just so many flowers to shoot. I just feel bad that I can't post all of them here. At any rate, I guess you can see what I mean.
Now I'm thinking it would be nice to go to this flower park in Puncak area and shoot a model there. But then again that's still wishful thinking. I never imagined myself as the flower type of guy. Well at least I can now photograph them if I can't grow them.
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