Ailsa has challenged us again to come up with some images from our travels of street markets. I’ve always loved the colour and vibrancy of street markets and the variety of what’s on offer. Some markets may only offer produce but many offer a huge choice of everything a household could possibly need and more [...]
Last week’s impromptu ‘Reflections‘ challenge hosted by Ailsa was so much fun, she asked if we could do it again? She went on to say “There are many other photo challenges out there, but how about one with a travel theme? I love finding out about great places waiting to be discovered, and it doesn’t [...]
While in Chiang Mai I joined Alan, a professional photographer, for a day of photography out and about in Chiang Mai. I wanted to get away from using the automatic settings on my new dslr camera, learn a bit more about the camera and, hopefully, to get some interesting shots. I got up early and [...]
I recently discovered Lisa Gordon’s Creative Exchange website in which she encourages people to take and share photos taken with the heart. You can share your photo SOOC (straight out of the camera) or you can edit it, manipulate it, texturise it, whatever takes your fancy. The only criterion is that the photo must have [...]
Gong xi fa cai! (Happy new year in Chinese) On Chinese New Year’s Eve, which fell on 2nd February, we went to the village of Maenam on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand. Last year had been the first time Chinese New Year had been celebrated there and it had proved so successful that it [...]
This weekend, with the sun still shining albeit on an occasional basis now as we head into Autumn, we drove up to the north east of Luxembourg to a tiny village called Stolzembourg situated next to the river which forms a natural boundary between Luxembourg and Germany. The village has a museum of copper mining [...]
We had to get up early this morning because John had telephoned last night to say that we could join in the cookery class today. The three of us took a tuk-tuk to the Frizz where we were joined by some of John’s students from the NataRaj yoga centre (they are former sex traffic workers [...]
This year the Chinese New Year fell on St Valentine’s day giving the consumer market a double whammy of things to celebrate and bargains to be had. In Bangkok it was feted as being the day of Luck and Joy with encouragement in the form of advertising to go out and spend money everywhere. Many [...]
I recently joined a digital photography club. We started with 3 of us but now we are down to 2 as the other member has left for another job. So now the 2 of us go out regularly to photograph our surroundings and to encourage each other to get the best out of our digital [...]
Temples Westerners can visit some of temples provided they wear a sarong and a sash or are suitably dressed (no shorts, strapless tops, etc) although they may not enter on festival days (invariably when the temples look their best). We visited several different types of temple (sea, lakeside and local village temples) as well as [...]
