Bali & Indonesia

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Photographers, videographers and drone pilots who live in Bali and travel across Indonesia — Ubud, Canggu, Seminyak, Uluwatu and Nusa Penida, then Lombok, the Gilis, Komodo, Java’s temples and Bromo. They know which hour a viewpoint is still empty, where a drone may legally fly and which temples ask for a permit.

Places: 12
Areas of Bali: 5
Beyond Bali: 6

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Bali, area by area

Bali by area

Visitors book by where they are staying, and the light, traffic and temple rules change from one area to the next. Each has its own page.

All of Bali

Bali Province

Bali

Bali takes two to three hours to cross and its best light lasts about forty minutes at each end of the day, so every shoot here is planned backwards from sunrise or sunset — and from the traffic in between.

Area of Bali

Ubud

Area of Bali

Canggu

Area of Bali

Seminyak

Area of Bali

Uluwatu

Area of Bali

Nusa Penida

Beyond Bali

Islands & cities

West Nusa Tenggara

Lombok

Lombok gives you Bali-scale scenery without the queues: horseshoe bays and grass headlands on the south coast, Rinjani’s 3,726-metre cone in the north, and viewpoints where yours is often the only camera.

North Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara

Gili Islands

Three car-free islands off Lombok where the only traffic is bicycles and cidomo horse carts, the water is clear enough to photograph turtles from the surface, and every west-facing beach looks straight across at Bali’s Mount Agung at sunset.

Flores, East Nusa Tenggara

Labuan Bajo

Labuan Bajo is the harbour town on the western tip of Flores where Komodo trips begin — one morning out here can hold a savanna ridge above three bays, a pink-sand beach and the deck of a wooden phinisi.

DKI Jakarta

Jakarta

In one Jakarta afternoon a couple can stand in a Dutch colonial square, under the glass towers of Sudirman and on a waterfront at PIK — which is why Indonesian couples come here for city-styled pre-wedding photos.

Special Region of Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta keeps Borobudur, Prambanan, an active volcano and a coast of sand dunes within an hour or so of a royal city, so a single shoot day here can move from a temple at sunrise to the Indian Ocean at sunset.

A trip of its own

Volcanoes

A crater rim at sunrise above a sea of cloud — a night journey from Bali or Surabaya, planned around one hour of light.

East Java

Mount Bromo

Bromo is a smoking crater inside a caldera of black sand about ten kilometres across — you photograph it at dawn from the rim above, then drive down into the sea of sand while cloud still lies in the valleys.

About these places

Twelve places, and six of them are on one island

Places covered: 12
Bali & its areas: 6
Islands beyond Bali: 3
Places on Java: 3

Bali and five of its areas have pages of their own — Uluwatu, Ubud, Canggu, Seminyak and Nusa Penida — because each is a different shoot. Beyond Bali there are Lombok and the Gili Islands to the east, Labuan Bajo on Flores, the gateway to Komodo, and on Java the Bromo crater, Yogyakarta with its temples, and Jakarta.

Bali is split because its areas do not share a light or a timetable. Uluwatu is cliffs and ocean, best in the last hour before sunset. Ubud is jungle, rice terraces and waterfalls, shot early before the paths fill. Canggu and Seminyak are beaches, villas and beach clubs, close to where most visitors stay. Nusa Penida is a fast-boat crossing and a sunrise start at Kelingking. One Bali page would have to say all of that at once.

What each page carries is what a visitor would not know: when the light works and from which side, where the queues are — Lempuyang can mean hours of waiting — which temples ask for a sarong and sash, where a drone may fly, and how the logistics work: Bromo is a pre-dawn jeep ride, the Gilis and Penida a boat each way.

Travel within the booked area is included in the price. Boats, entry tickets, temple donations and national-park fees are not; we can coordinate an island transfer for $90 and name every cost before you confirm.

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