Like last year, I was planning to present you with a massive Year-in-Review post around this time of year. Like last year, I've had to cancel that plan because I'm simply too busy finishing my translation and preparing for my upcoming holiday to write anything more than a short, nonsensical post. Suffice it to say 2006 was a decent year for me -- a ( Read more... )

Today's photos are all very snapshottish -- tourist stuff pur sang -- but I hope you'll like them, anyway. In any case, they'll be the last pictures I'll post here for a while, as I'm going to take another break from LiveJournal. For the next two weeks I'll be house-sitting in the country, where I will have Internet access but no access to ( Read more... )

Thai lady taking her pet goose out for a stroll.

Is this photo oversharpened? My screen is going to the dogs; I can't tell any more when a picture is properly sharpened and when it's oversharpened.


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About half a year ago, I posted a previous incarnation of these photos to a travel photo community and made the terrible mistake of calling the statues and their background tacky. In the discussion which followed, I tried to explain to a South East Asian girl that to my rather austere eyes (hey, I'm from a Protestant country!), the combination of ( Read more... )

Does this look cross-processed or what? The bizarre thing is, it isn't a cross-processed photo. Nor did I heavily alter the colours in Photoshop. This is roughly how the scan appeared on my screen when I opened it in Photoshop.

I have no idea what happened here -- whether it's a bad scan or whether the negative was damaged. Judging from the ( Read more... )

More Thailand snapshots. Today's unifying theme is... spaghetti. Yes.

Phang-Nga Bay is like Halong Bay in Vietnam, or like a more watery version of Guilin, China: a series of strangely shaped limestone mountains which arise seemingly out of nothing. It's a wonderful place to spend a day on a boat, but getting good pictures of it is rather hard. So ( Read more... )

This week's photos will be for papayas, who is going to Thailand and Laos soon, and may need a bit of inspiration. Hopefully, the rest of you will enjoy them, too, despite the fact that they're old and in some cases quite flawed...

Ayuthaya served as the Siamese capital from 1350 to 1767, and by all accounts it was a splendid city -- one of the most ( Read more... )

This German girl, whom I found sitting in the lobby of my Bangkok hostel one afternoon, had been taken to a classical Thai dance performance a few nights earlier. She had been so fascinated by the whole thing that her parents had bought her these finger extensions, with which she sat playing for hours on end, just moving her hands in front of her ( Read more... )