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Official Programme
Friday 25 November 2011 08:00 AM: Arrival of Participants & Registration for Workshops 8:30AM – 5:30PM: WORKSHOPS 9:00AM – 5:00PM: Booth exhibitions at Panorama Langkawi
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Short Docu-film Competition
Langkawi invites you to enter your stunning wildlife video and story to tell the world!. We’re looking for beautiful video that representing the wildlife of our magical islands. Your own original video of our wildlife are all eligible for the competition. Cash rewards will be offered to the winning video. The contest is open to all participants either Malaysian or foreigners.
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Workshop Day
Day one of the event kicked off with workshops and talks by invited judges and nature conservationists consisted of topics ranging from photography skills, macro (insect) photography, video-scoping (combining still photography with video) and short documentary workshop. To the excitement of many, the workshops on day one were both innovative and creative with a mixture of comedy in between. The speakers for the workshop were Malaysia’s very first digital ‘videoscoper’ Tee Lian Huat, master macrophotographer Kurt Orion and also Basil R. Gelpke which is a filmmaker. He has won a series of awards for his documentary filmmaking such as the 2007 Sol d’Or of Barcelona, the Film Prize 2006 by…
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Flag Off Day
The participants of the bird race and photography component were flagged off from the entrance of cable car on the second day of the event. Officiating the flag off ceremony was Encik Azmil Munif Bukhari, the deputy Tourism Manager of LADA which saw around 50 participants present. Panorama Langkawi provide full access to all participant and sponsors free VIP pass to ride the cable car at any time throughout the race period. These bring more excitement to all participants to also get a breathtaking view of Langkawi from high above.
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Workshops Speakers/Presenter
ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS SPEAKERS/PRESENTER
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Kurt (AKA Orion Mystery)
KURT (AKA ORION MYSTERY) – MAESTRO OF MACRO Considered a” Maestro of Macro”, Kurt’s work have graced the cover of Photographer’s Magazine, Ukrainian edition; 3 times photo of the week on Juza international Forum; Images used on LRT, Rapid Buses and Monorail in Tourism Malaysia’s Zoom series (ladybird, yellow assassin bug, giraffe weevil). “Weevil taking off” image shortlisted for the Photographer of the Year (POTY). Come listen and learn from the maestro himself. An opportunity not to be missed. Besides authoring a popular macro photography blog: Up Close With Nature, Kurt also conducts photography workshops regularly, with special focus on macro.
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Tee Lian Huat
Considered a pioneer of “Digital Videoscoping”. A trained accountant with a passion for birds, he has been photographing birds as a “digiscoper” for over 15 years with the last 3 years as a “Digi-videoscoper”. Today Mr. Tee is a leader of this very new and innovative method capturing wildlife/birdlife in action. His days are spent in the rainforest nearby Kuala Lumpur sharpening his skills and techniques in the art of “digi-videoscoping”.
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Basil Gelpke
Basil Gelpke was born September 10, 1962 in Basel, Switzerland. After his studies in Social Anthropology, Economics and in the production of scientific films Basil soon became fascinated by all kinds of moving images. He is Managing Director of his production house Lava Production AG, www.lavatv.com
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Event’s Activities
In addition to the main events; Birdrace, Photography Competition and Workshops there will be plenty of other activities to keep all members of the family busy.
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The Winners 2011
THE WINNER LANGKAWI BIRDING & FOTOFEST 2011 Photography competition People’s Choice Award Mohd Azizul Zulzaha
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Gala Dinner
A Gala Dinner and Prize Giving Ceremony was held for the event at The Andaman A Luxury Collection Resort Langkawi on the final day. The ceremony began with A Tribute to the late Mr Tse Choo Tsien our last year speaker who passed away not long ago by Mr Kim from Penarak Nature Institute. Three speeches from Mr. Irshad Mobarak, Ms. Anne Scott (General Manager of the Andaman A Luxury Collection Resort Langkawi) and Mr. Azmil Munif Bukhari (LADA) respectively. This was followed by a dinner, cultural dance and a slideshow presentation. The prize giving ceremony for each of the categories were presented by the end of that evening.
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Registration Form
LANGKAWI BIRDING & FOTOFEST 2011 – 25th to 27th November 2011 Please complete the form and send by to secretariat before 25th November 2011. Should you have any questions please do not hesitated to contact us at +6019 590 2300 or +6012 584 6184 OR fax us at +604 959 1277 Personal Information Title: Mr Mrs Ms Others (Please specify) Full Name: __________________________ City: _____________________ Country: ___________________ E-mail address: _______________________ Tel: ___________________ Fax: __________________ Program Participating (please tick your choices): Workshop on Macro Photography by Kurt Orion 8:30am – 12:45pm on 25th November 2011 Workshop on Digital Video-scoping by Tee Lian Huat 8:300pm – 12:45pm on 25th November 2011 Documentary Film Craft by Basil Gelpke…
