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This is not my usual kind of upload...and generally I don't like this sort of pictures - people posing in front of something - because I really don't see the point. If I want a picture of something, why have anyone there (me included) blocking the view?! Or if I want a picture of a person, there are better ways to do that. But while scanning my old photos, I found this one from more than 10 years ago. This is me in Kyrgyzstan with a colleague of mine. In front of a beautiful yurt. Blocking the view. The guy who took this shot (with my old film camera) was another colleague, a doctor from Brazil. The thing is, three of us had so much fun on this trip in spite of working crazy long hours and living in a hellhole. Brazilian doctor never saw snow in his life and we were there in January, so daily helping of snow was guaranteed. He was damn lucky I managed to talk him into buying some thermal underwear before coming to Kyrgyzstan...especially considering our hotel had no heat most of the time. Still we had a ball. So I feel like posting it.
Oh, and there is no question that the yurt alone would have made for a better photo. :-)
Leaving town for a work thing til Thursday and I have to be a mobile edit suite. Which is ordinarily fine, I have one convenient little bag I take with me...but this time I have to bring a bunch of extra stuff and I keep realizing "oh I forgot x, oh I forgot y"
argh...I feel very unprepared.
While we waited for Harrods to open we walked through the London Oratory, a Catholic church (albeit an unorthodox Catholic church).
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Watch a video of the trip.
From my hotel window I could see endless activity at this school. The temperature was in the high 30s so for these children, I can only imagine it was quite difficult lining up each morning.
This is from a recent trip I did to Xiamen. For me, at least, this was a very friendly city. As Westerners we were stared at quite a bit, but always in a friendly and curious way.
The main oddity of this town is not so much its proximity to Taiwan and therefore the increased military presence, but more that there are a couple of small island just a few kms from Xiamen that are Taiwanese territory. Why this is allowed is a mystery to me.
This photo was taken in 2003 in Singapore, at the time I only had a compact camera, Olympus C50. I was eating in a nice restaurant on the Sentosa Island. It was an out door restaurant at the tip of the island and you could see all the large ships going by. The evening was getting darker. They brought me this starter and did notice the reflexion in the soya sauce of the palm trees around me.
The waiters must have thought I was a bit weird taking photos of my starter!
As you may or will notice, I really like the difference of field in photos, I like the contrast between blur and sharpness… I think it started on that night and with this random photo! :)
Taken with my lomo lc-a, on jessops slidefilm, out of the window on the moving train back from London to Bristol. cross processed, which is why the pinkish tones and the texture
Better On Black
5 shots from the Bank of America.
There's much about this picture I like: For example, the yellow of the sunset on the tower, and the sparsity of the lights on in the buildings.
But, there's much that annoys me: it's a crop from a larger picture that has glass reflections. I should have done this as a panorama. There are a couple of ships int the original that have blurred out.
(c) 2009 Mathew Best, as first published in The Atlantic