Starting the New Year

I have felt like this on New Year’s Day a few times and it never feels like a good way to start the year, although it does at least ensure that things will get better.

I have no idea if there was really something wrong with her or if she was just wrapped up in her own thoughts whilst waiting for someone perhaps, but a woman nearby smiled reassuringly at me when I took the photo so I left her teetering on the curb. I hope she didn’t jump.

Photograph taken at the “Sunday Walking Street”, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Onward

Climb on board, a new year is about to begin.

Photograph taken at Chiang Mai Gate, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Alien

Carrying toy dogs around like in this photograph has suddenly become very fashionable here in Chiang Mai. During an hour’s walk around one of the street markets I am guaranteed to see ten or so. I am sure they are loved and looked after but I do wonder whether they wouldn’t much prefer to have the chance to sniff the world at ground level on their own legs. Perhaps this wouldn’t be a good idea in a crowded market but these dogs seem to get carried absolutely everywhere.

The face and position of this particular dog really does make me think back to the classic movie scene where the alien bursts out of a man’s abdomen. This is the (slightly) less scary version.

Photograph taken at the “Saturday Walking Street”, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The Beauty of Digital Photography

This photograph makes me think back to the days of film when the gap between taking a picture and actually seeing the result was usually a few weeks. And now a whole generation has grown up enjoying the immediate gratification of instant results, photographically speaking.

This is, of course, a great feature of digital photography but there are still people around using rollfilm cameras and I hope they never totally fade away for they offer something different in both process and quality that the digital world lacks.

Photograph taken at the “Saturday Walking Street”, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Faceless Faces

Sometimes you make your own luck.

I was trying to take a photograph of the group of girls huddled over looking at some goods. There were other people moving around between us and I wasn’t quite as close to them as I wanted to be. The chances were that the picture would not work, perhaps being blurred or blocked or just fail as a composition but I took it anyway and love the result of people in a crowded situation all turned away from each other with visible but incomplete faces.

It would have been so easy not to have bothered pressing the shutter-release.

Photograph taken at the “Sunday Walking Street”, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Passenger

The angle of this photograph was just right to see the disembodied hands on this man’s shoulders but nothing else of the child hanging onto his back. Other than those hands there doesn’t seem to be anything else about him to even suggest that he is actually carrying a passenger.

Or perhaps they are just an unusual pair of decorative shoulder pads?

Photograph taken at the “Saturday Walking Street”, Chiang Mai, Thailand.