Scott Thomas’ Assignment 14: Showing Scale in Photography

In recent times I have been reasonably busy with anything other than blogging – I started a new job in June (I will tell more about this later 🙂 ) and have just been on two weeks holiday by the West-coast of Jutland (many of you will know I love spending much time there – and some new photos from there will also likely soon show up here – in between more travel photos!).

A few days ago I discovered that I had completely missed Scott Thomas’ latest assignment: Showing Scale in Photography.

On my travel earlier this year ​​many experiences  made a great impression (and you may already have seen some of my photos from this travel here?! – If not – please check my archives – category “Australia”)

Anyway – I decided to use a few more travel-photos this time.

This is not the first time I publish photos of this beautiful and magnificent building (Please look here  and here). But look at the large size of the building here by comparing with the person in red in the middle of the picture (click to enlarge the photo) – or if he is too small – the cars to the right.

But standing in Sydney Tower overlooking the center of Sydney and some of the suburbs in the distance, the harbour, The Harbour Bridge – and Sydney Opera House: Suddenly the Opera House looks very small…

Here is another large – and a bit scary – Aussie experience!

Australia has got a lot of exciting and (for us) unusual animals. Driving near Great Ocean Road on a small outback road I suddenly watched this giant spider. It kept sitting there for a long time, and we had no great desire to go out and say hello to the creature. Therefore I had to drive into the bushes by the roadside to get it swept off the car!

Later that day we must have been focusing a lot on spiders (!) – and I found many giant spiders in the bushes on a walk by the coast…:

More about Australias’ exciting animals in later posts!

We also travelled in Malaysian Borneo, Sabah.

Borneo has until last century been covered by rainforest. But by means of powerful forces in our industrialized world by far the most of this rainforest is now cleared to make way for huge plantations with only one plant: Oil palms – for industrial use. A lucrative business for big companies in this business.

But very bad for the rainforest and its complex and overwhelming life of animals and plants – and for all  the world’s environment and future….

We could drive for hours with only this depressing view from the road:
But how does the rainforest look like?

We experienced this when we spent some adventurous days in Borneo Rainforest Lodge in Danum Valley. Here we discovered the amazing diversity of life for plants and animals in the rainforest. Every day we spent hiking in the rainforest both by day and night. Extremely exciting, hard and instructive!
This gigantic tree may be hundreds of years old:

Here is our little group for our walks in the rainforest: Three Danes in the company of our two very sweet Japanese friends. We are all equipped with some odd socks: leech socks (!!!)

We also walked upon the huge trees of the rainforest!:

I am happy, that by staying in Borneo Rainforest Lodge we supported their projects for the expansion of the rainforest in Borneo.

(I will show more from Sabah, Borneo, in later posts!)