Good Food and Views are Worth the Journey
This boy peered out of the window of the school to give us a warm smile. This photo was taken this past February in a fishing village in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Camera settings were on ISO800, f14, 1/30, focal length 135mm.
I did a trek (part of the Annapurna circuit) in Nepal in Nov. 1995 and also visited Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Chitwan. It was breathtaking in beauty and also due to my lack of fitness. And it was also quite an adventure, which included an overturned bus. I do hope they rebuild much of what was devastated and that tourism, which is such a large part of their economy, recovers. Donations are likely to remain needed for years to come.
I wish I had better photo skills and equipment back then. The colour in my negatives have started to fade so I’ve converted most of the photos into black & white except for a couple where you can sort of tell that the original colours would have been stunning.
Back in July 2003, I took a road trip in northern India from Manali to Leh (Ladakh). I undertook this trip through Country Holidays in Singapore who still offers this tour. It’s worth doing – scenery is amazing and the food was surprisingly good (I love Indian food anyway). These are probably the better photos from the trip. I hadn’t gone digital yet so these were either taken with negative film (Fujifilm Reala), positives (Velvia or Provia) or black & white film (Neopan) using Carl Zeiss lens on either a Yashica or Contax body. One of my cameras malfunctioned so I lost more than a third of the shots I took. Nowadays with digital, at least you’ll know immediately if there’s something wrong!
I took this picture back in December 2000 using Fujifilm Velvia 50 positive film (slide) on either a Yashica or Contax body with a Carl Zeiss lens. Those were the days! Both Yashica and Contax stopped making cameras in 2005 but the equipment I have still takes really good pics although I’m really lazy to take them out these days. Anyway, she was a girl in the market in Yangon and it was just fortuitous that her eyes happened to be in the stream of light coming through the awnings. It was also lucky that for once I had my settings right as she was just there for a fleeting moment.
