Atmosphere of Sunda Kelapa Harbor in the Afternoon
Sunda Coconut is name a port and the place surrounding, which It is located in Penjaringan sub-district, Penjaringan sub-district, North Jakarta. Harbor it has large land as big as 760 hectares and area pool water 16,470 hectares consisting of two main ports and the port of Kalibaru. Harbor The main area has a length of 3,250 meters and a pool area of approximately 1,200 meters which can accommodate 70 motorized sailboats.
Kalibaru port is 750 . long more meters with a land area of 343,399 square meters, a pool area of 42,128, 74 meters square footage, and can accommodate about 65 inter-island ships and has a eld stockpile of 31,131 square meters Kalapa harbor has been known since centuries 12th and at that time was. Harbor paramount is paramount. Then on time entry Islam and Para European colonizers,
Kalapa up for grabs between kingdoms -- kingdom Archipelago and Europe. Finally the Dutch managed to master it long enough to more than 300 year. These conquerors changed the name of the port of Kalapa and the surrounding area. However, in the early 1970s, the ancient name Kalapa was again used as the ocial name of this Tua port is in the form of "Sundakelapa"
Atmosphere of Sunda Kelapa Harbor Like case harbor -- harbor others, Port this also show typical port activities such as ships moving here and there
parting the sea, the ship leaning on the pier, then there is a group of workers who carry out loading and unloading activities, then the number of containers passing by describe the bustle of the port as it should be. But what's interesting My attention is the children who are on the edge of the pier playing freely like it's already together with the port starting from swim to jump from the ship into the water.
Because seeing the beautiful scenery Rarely do I just take my camera out of my bag to capture a moment that I rarely encounter in the city of Jakarta and the children are aware about the camera I was carrying, then they swam up to me and asked to photographed,
I'm happy to take a picture because that's what I came here for is for capture photos about activities in the harbor, originally only look 2 -- 3 children, but not for long then the other kids Follow and take pictures.
The children offer themselves to jump from the ship and asked me to take a photo they, with pleasure I do it, then I freely take pictures of them in continuous mode and also with a high shutter speed in order to freeze objects up to them looks like they are oating in the air,
then I also direct them to pose with other styles so it doesn't look monotonous. But sometimes I also take pictures them candidly so that their expressions are more natural