by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Shadowland timelapse movie. Shadowland is the third movie of my Bagan timelapse pentalogy. This 8,5 minute long timelapse journey shows you Bagan during the different light of day. Starting at sunrise and ending at night, this movie takes you along my journey as I...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Rogue Storm timelapse movie. ROGUE STORM is the second movie of my Bagan timelapse pentalogy. The movie is built around a rare night with 3 lightning storms passing over Bagan. In this dry zone very little rain falls, even in monsoon season. The chance of capturing a...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Flying over Bagan drone movie. Flying over Bagan captures countless of the many temples of Bagan, Myanmar. Shot in both monsoon season and dry season over the course of 11 weeks during 3 visits in 20 months time. I was there mainly for my timelapse pentalogy and had...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Dimension Reflection timelapse movie. Dimension Reflection is the fifth and final movie in my Bagan timelapse pentalogy. This movie explores the realms of reflections, using 2, 4, 8 and 16 reflections. To add to the surreal effect of it all I used my blending...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
TimeBlend timelapse movie. TimeBlend is the fourth movie of my Bagan timelapse pentalogy. It’s a ‘creative timelapse movie’ of Bagan using a blending technique to capture the element of time. By blending images from the timelapse sequence with each other, I aim to...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Shadow of a Dynasty timelapse movie. Shadow of a Dynasty is the first and main movie of my Bagan timelapse pentalogy, using (motion controlled) timelapse, hyperlapse and dronelapse. The movie shows you one of worlds’ most incredible man-built locations as it still...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Blog Favourites
Behind the scenes at my Bagan Project. There is a lot to tell about this entire Bagan project of 6 movies and several photo series. In every aspect it is the biggest, most time consuming, most unique ánd most least safe project I’ve ever worked on. The project grew...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Doing something back for the kind people of Myanmar. Before I started my long-term travels, I decided to set aside a dollar day while I traveled, to support the local people. I planned to either give money to a local non-profit or help out people in whatever way. With...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Capturing the passing of time and motion of light in Bagan TimeScapes. My Bagan TimeScape photo series is part of my ongoing TimeScapes photo and video project.. In this project I try to capture the element of time by using my timelapses in creative ways. By blending...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
A series of mesmerizing Bagan drone photos. Bagan is one of the most captivating places to capture, no matter what camera you’re using. You just can’t go wrong here. But, as with any other place, to capture it from the sky opens up a whole new range of possibilities....
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Capturing the ancient temples of Bagan at night. Capturing Bagan at night with the Milky Way was the main thing I was here for. Although there are millions of photos Bagan, there’s very few with the Milky Way. And there are especially few timelapses made. No one has...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Capturing the ancient temples of Bagan at sunset. Bagan at sunset can be absolutely mesmerizing. They get some fantastic sunsets here, mainly in the dry season though. Even if there are no clouds, you’ll still be treated with beautiful colorful skyglow. People tend to...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Exploring the inside of the Bagan temples. Although a lot of the smaller temples have now been closed off with gates in the doorway, there’s still plenty of places where you visit inside and watch the wall decorations and statues inside the Bagan temples. Notice the...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Capturing the ancient temples of Bagan at day. Right after sunrise everyone goes back to their accommodation to have breakfast. Between 7am and 9am is actually the best time to see Bagan at day time. There’s barely anyone around, the light is still gorgeous and soft...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Capturing the ancient temples of Bagan at sunrise. To see Bagan at sunrise is the highlight of the day. Yeah, it hurts to get up that early, but it’s worth it! Witnessing the light reveal the landscape is magical. Add in the balloons and you have a scene unlike...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Tips
Flying a drone in Myanmar. If you’re planning on visiting Bagan and you have a drone, your hands will be itching to fly at this incredible city with its countless temples, pagodas and stupas. I visited Myanmar 3 times in 2018 and 2019, did a lot of research on Myanmar...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Tips
Myanmar: What to know when visiting. Myanmar is one of the most interesting countries in Southeast Asia at the moment thanks to its multiple ethnic groups and its rural traditional culture. Everywhere you’ll see men wearing the...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Blog Favourites, Travel Guides
All you need to know about visiting Bagan. The ‘One and only Ultimate travel guide to Bagan’ title is a pretty bold statement, but it’s a fact that pretty much every Bagan travel guide is out of date. There have been so many changes going on at Bagan, that the entire...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog
Balloon ride over the temples of Bagan at sunrise. Bagan is known worldwide as one of the most spectacular locations for a balloon flight. No wonder a Bagan balloon ride is on many people’s bucket list. From October to April each year balloons rise at sunrise to...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Guides
Inle Lake Travel Guide Welcome to my Inle Lake Travel Guide. I hope this will inspire you to visit this unique place, despite some controversies perhaps. But more about that later on. In western Shan State, you find the picturesque Inle Lake, famous for its floating...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Guides
Hpa An travel guide. Welcome to this Hpa An travel guide. This often overlooked scruffy little town lies is surrounded by a stunning landscape of rice fields and karst mountains, hiding incredible caves, filled with statues and decorations. Known as the former...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Myanmar, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Flying over Hpa An, Myanmar – A unique drone capture! This drone movie ‘Flying over Hpa An’ shows some incredible views of the area around Hpa An. Hpa An, capital of Kayin State in the southeast, is surrounded by dramatic karst mountain scenery which...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Photography Tips, Singapore, Travel Blog
Singapore TimeScape Here’s a fun little Singapore TimeScape project in which I turn two timelapses into single images. Basically what I do is use the technique for startrails to blend images into 1 image. You could easily do this in Photoshop. Use Bridge to select all...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Singapore, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Singapore’s Marina Bay area, a timelapse movie + travel tips My timelapse movie Singapore ‘City of Lights’ was shot during a 3 day visit to this island, city and country, all at the same time! This was my second visit here and this time I wanted to focus on capturing...
by Martien Janssen | Asia, Indonesia, Travel Blog, Travel Videos
Bali and the Nusa islands seen from the sky Capturing Bali by drone while flying my Mavic Pro over Bali’s landscape and the Nusa islands: Nusa Penida, – Ceningan and Lembongan. The Nusa islands were lovely, I really enjoyed exploring those, in particual...
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