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Raja Ampat

Every islet was covered with strange-looking shrubs and trees, and was generally crowned by lofty and elegant palms, which also studded the ridges of the mountainous shores, forming one of the most singular and picturesque landscapes I have ever seen.

Alfred Russel Wallace The Malay Archipelago (1869)
Alptekin Baloğlu’s Sometimes in Raja Ampat, a red landscape hardcover lettered in gold, with a yellow damselfish among red sea whips framed on the cover.

For your coffee table

Sometimes in Raja Ampat

A4 Ofset

Raja Ampat’s reefs through Alptekin Baloğlu’s underwater lens.

Leatherette hardcover · 176 underwater photographs

29.7 × 21 cm

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The book open at its introduction, a map locating Raja Ampat beside Turkish and English text, facing a reef of pink and orange soft corals.

Some of my Instagram posts from Raja Ampat

Olga overlooking the turquoise lagoons and forested karst islets of the Fam Islands in Raja Ampat.A male Wilson’s bird-of-paradise with a turquoise crown, scarlet back and curled tail wires, clinging to a thin sapling.Two clownfish among the golden tentacles of a sea anemone on a Raja Ampat reef.