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In Love [1149 hits] Its Friday night 9.30pm and.... I'm going to sleep.
Sleep? When the whole downtown area pubs and discos are going wild with parties everywhere.....
"Why go to sleep? You dont need sleep!!" th ...
Trapped in a bar full of Men [1450 hits]I felt light, I felt elated. I'd just spent 5 days in Bangkok negotiating a tough transaction with a client and it had concluded on a positive note.
I parted company with my Thai hosts at 10pm aft ...
I Enjoy Pain... [1371 hits]After an early breakfast at the neighborhood coffeeshop on a superbly beautiful Saturday morning, my wife mentioned 'Its really nice outside today, lets spend the rest of the morning at the Botanical ...
My Cambodian Adventure - Kick-boxing in Phnom Penh [1526 hits]The first time I arrived in Phnom Penh late 2002, the air was warm as Dinesh and myself stepped out of the terminal and sucked in the atmosphere. I forgot to tell him one little detail about our airp ...
A Trip (where I squeeze in shooting time on a business trip) Part I [1348 hits]Preface: Lots of people ask 'Ed, how do you manage to travel to these far flung exotic places 20 times a year for photography?' Truth of the matter is that I travel 95% of the time on company busin ...
A Trip Part II - Dalian, Paris of North China (where I get plastered) [1181 hits]Day 2 (continued)
CA953 came low along the northern Chinese coastline as we approached Da Lian. From my window, I look down at the Yellow Sea (Huang Hai). Little islands float by surrounded by t ...
A Trip (3rd and Final installation of the China Triology) - Part III [1459 hits]Days 3 through 6
The next few days fly by with meetings,speaking engagements, more drinking/feasting and little time for shooting.
Da Lian is an hour from Seoul and the same from Tokyo. It host ...
In a Land where they dont speak English.... [1233 hits]I'm alway a visitor. But the locals think I'm a travelling clown.
Sure, I can handle simple Thai, Lao, Indonesian, Chinese and Malay but I'm mute when it comes to Burmese, Hindi, Vietnamese and Kh ...
The Objective in Laos (while disguised as a Photographer) [1328 hits]The 4.30am fight between the cocks over their harem of hens, wake me up from slumber. Chasing away my one-night stand partners of mosquitoes, I didn't miss a heartbeat as I slung the camera gear ont ...
My 10 Golden Rules (in Photography) [1420 hits]10 Pack sweets and candy.....lots of them Great ice-breaker and smile generator.
9 Shoot early morning or Late Afternoon. Catch up on sleep or go shopping between 10am and 3pm....unless you ...
Getting There.... [1158 hits]Its always the little things in life that count....
Trips that I'd took months planning and being systematically focussed on the agenda on hand does play an important part that helps in getting wha ...
Extracted excerpts [1106 hits]....Bangkok, the City of Angels, Sin City, Gommorah to the world, derived most of its reputation from the core of Chinatown..... the spirit of free enterprise breeds freely on moneyed fertilizer....
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....Hoping is Hopeless... [1162 hits]Tic,tic,tic,tic?..I look at my watch and sigh.
Here I was, sitting down to a glorious sunset along Kata Beach on Phuket Island to the strains of ?a Girl from Ipenema? serenading me from a nearb ...
Photographing People and Shooting on the Streets [1162 hits]SMACK!!! a banana peel slams into the side of my head
SLOOSH!!! a bucket of soap water lands on my feet
YANK!!! a burly hand tries to wrench my camera away
I love shooting on the streets.
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Laying In Ambush [1047 hits]Carefully rationing each sip of my coffee as it turned cold over the last 2 hrs since daybreak, I am parked in an Indonesian warung (food stall) within a lane in the old colonial section of Padang.
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A Man With No Name [1134 hits]Clambering over the last hillock at the mouth of a stream I'd trailed, I sit down to catch my breath and give the old back a rest break. Out on the western fringes of Thailand bordering Burma, the ai ...
2003 Resolutions [1004 hits]Our plastic Christmas tree just got taken down this week and returned to its place in the store room.....almost 2 months after X'mas and a week after the 15th day of Chinese New Year.
As I watch ...
Hey, mister! You promised to buy from me !!! [1178 hits]Stepping off the boat after a wrenching 5 hour ride from Phnom Phen, I arrived hyped. Here I was, on the hallowed dirt of Siem Reap and almost within reach of the fabled Angkor Wat temples. The man ...
?alright darling, you win, just put down my Leica? [1233 hits]Women just don?t understand us Men.
At 90kg, grossly overweight, my doctor?s mantra to me over the past 10 years have been ?exercise, exercise and more exercise? and ?watch your diet!? My wife mak ...
Inside a Photographer's Bag [1338 hits]As a fellow photographer, you pretty much know what?s inside most photographers? bags?.camera, lens, filters, flim, spare batteries, cleaning tissues, blower?. No big surprises, until you look into mi ...
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