Some photos from my recent trip to Indonesia, the coldness at 2,700m view point at Bromo, the cat in the volcanic area, the village under Ijin volcano, the view half way up Ijin, the sulphur miner who carried 79kg per trip...the director on horseback, Mark the soundman of exploration, me under the mask...

The Ijin Volcano is not as high as the Bromo, but climbing the volcano walking into the crater was not easy as it takes three full hours of up and down for each trip. The worst part if the sulphur gas continued steamed from the crater is very toxic and we need to wear breathing mask and googles which made us hard to work and climb. We climbed the top of volcano three times in the two days of filming. The water in the crater lake below is highly acidic. We also found a river where we could film the scientist Clive testing it. Photo credit: Mark Roberts.

We reached the Bromo volcanoes at 2,700m altitude in Java, Indonesia. I used a varicam with canon lenses and a mini jib from Miller. To get the best positions for the sunrise shoot we had to start the call time at 0230 and used three 4x4 4-drive jeeps to arrive close to the location and then start climbing in the dark, the jib and tripod are all in positions by 0400. We filmed until 1100 and change location to another volcano nearby , but this time we need to cimb on top of it to see the crater, so we rode on horses to help us most of the way and climbed the last 200 steps on foot.

This is a day shooting a corporate piece with a presenter in front of green screen. They have chosen to shoot with the red camera. The actor Jim came to my camera and said to me solidly, 'I wanted to buy this

My design, a cine bodymount, a device to shoot the actor himself while he is moving around, was further improved recently , it had been updated a few times and this time it works with an Arriflex 3 camera. Today a production company rented it for a scene in a movie. The whole crew like 15 people running in front of the rig and the actor with twenty extras created quite a scene in the quiet area of Tin Hau on the Hong Kong island. Thanks to Kenny Bi who asked me to make the first one in 2004.