A picture is worth a thousand words

Published on: Sunday, April 17, 2022

By: Kan Yaw Chong

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Mother Bornean pygmy elephant and son – one of the most sought-after sighting in Kinabatangan.

SWITCHING to terrestrial wildlife photography after decades of diving the deep, famous dive guru, Clement Lee, has this to tell the tourism establishment:

“Leverage the epic biodiversity of both land and marine simultaneously to double if not triple Sabah’s ecotourism receipts. What strikes me most is, yes, like underwater, we do have what it takes to be the leader, where both the top side and underwater biodiversity are equal to none!” he told Daily Express after spending two years as a ‘Roving’ birding photographer to places like Gunung Alap, Crocker Range, Kinabalu Park, Sepilok, Sukau, Kinabatangan, Sayap, Sangkir, Tempasuk, Kota Belud, Inobong, Sugut, in an around KK itself.

The power of the English adage “A picture is worth a thousand words,” that is, sometimes, multiple ideas, essence and meaning can be conveyed more effectively by a single still picture than a mere verbal description, is so true.

These top class pictures by Clement who shared with Daily Express willingly positivised us deeply by no small measure and almost certainly the public too with a new belief in the State.

So in this Part 1 of a Special Report, we opt for little or no texts to liberate the space to let Clement’s pictures argue his case.

The Whitehead’s luminous Green Broadbill.

The Whitehead’s Trogon – most colourful trogon of all. These three White head’s endemic birds all shot in one morning in Kinabalu Park is “historic and satisfying,” Clement says.

The Whitehead’s spider hunter.

The rare Colugo (flying lemur) photographed on the Mennangol River, in Kinabatangan.

Captured: Magic portrait of Sabah’s ‘Man of the Forest’ in Sukau.

Captured: The famous long, dangling nose of a male Proboscis monkey of Sabah, shot in Sukau Kinabatangan.

Portrait of a massively whiskered Silvered leaf monkey – Clement’s first encounter in Kinabatangan.

Mesmerising crimson-headed Partridge endemic to Borneo and Photographed in Gunung Alap Sabah.

Captured: Storm’s Stork sunbathing 70 feet high aloft on a tree branch in Kinabatangan. There are less than 500 left in the world, yet you see them in Sabah!