My busy schedule has again resulted to no new blog posts. But as I promised, there will finally be pictures. I've been thinking hard about what my first photo post should be about, but since I have an endless amount of them I thought I just have to start from my favourite place: Borneo. I have visited this magical island several times, and I am constantly craving to return there. The place of headhunters and witch doctors has probably put some kind of a spell on me.
Here are some of the very first photographs I took on the island of Borneo back in 2009, during my internship at NAM News Network. They are from a small Iban village near the Niah Caves in Sarawak, Malaysia. The family I was staying with celebrated the beginning of a harvest festival Gawai by drinking rice wine and sacrificing a cockerel. The sacrifice was a gift to the spirits who were believed to guard the house and ensure a good harvest.
I have improved my photography a lot since then, but I am somehow fond of these clumsy pictures that tell about my first encounter with the friendly natives of Borneo. Even back then, I knew that it was not going to be my last.
