and guess what, its bloody raining everyday and only had sun for about 3 hours this morning, but I still managed to get a sunburn, ah so hot the sun in the summer… then it started raining and I went back in the pool and played around with the underwater camera. This is one of the shots of the rain hitting the pool, taken on Canon G9 with underwater housing.

Staying in a new resort right across the road from the beach, its called Ban Paantai on Cha-Am beach its very nice just opened a few weeks ago. Its got a pool, which is why we checked in and for B2000/night its very reasonable for the quality of the place… very nice if i do say so…

The beach at Cha-Am is not so nice as the water is not clear and the beach not white sandy like you get in the south, but as it is only 2 hours south of Bangkok it suits me fine for this quick trip.

I have rented a car for the time I am here in Thailand and driving down here I was turning at a light when a guy and his girl friend tried to pass me on the right hand side as i was turning right, well he didn’t make it and the both of them are very lucky to be alive, although a little scrapped up… i took them to hospital, then their mother showed up and started demanding money to fix his motobike even thought this guy was totally in the wrong and the accident was 100% his fault, well seeing how this is THAILAND and i am just a falang, i fished out B1000 and drove off in a huff. When visiting Thailand remember that the locals look at you as a walking ATM nothing more, nothing less…

It was a very yummy one… Wish u were here…

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for some much needed R&R… massages, seafood, and flying kite on the beach… ah…

If you need me the phone will  be on… but better send me a mail or text me…

I shot this a few months ago for Fluid. It is hanging on the wall
outside Fat Angelos on the midlevels escalator.

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My little sweety Daisy had a oopsy Daisy moment the other day. She jumped off the couch and her paw slipped on the tile floor and she landed sideways banging her head. She then has a seizure that the Vet says is related to hydrocephalus. I was shit scared and immediately stuck my finger in her mouth to open her airway, she convulsed for a few minutes and then stopped she was then dazed and confused for the next two hours and just lay in her basket not doing anything. Well i took her to the Vet, same one that my friend Lisa took her dog too, the one that knows about hydrocephalus, which is a condition with Chihauhaus whereby they basically have poor wiring and any trauma to the head will cause them to have a seizure. Poor little Daisy… she is fine now, but I feel almost like she needs to have a crash helmet… OOPSY DAISY…

Here she is an hour or so before the accident, my friend David was shooting some product in the studio and she wanted to be a part of it…

This was taken last year when I went up to Beijing to visit my folks who were having an R&R break from their job in Mongolia, I am sure it looks a little different now as all the construction will be finished and maybe they even planted grass around the place to make it look nice. According to reports on the BBC, the air quality is terrible. We have heard that they are going to shut down all the factories and building sites in the entire area starting right about now.  So upwards of 300 million people are going to be out of work for the next two months, WOW. Only in China.

Well one thing to say, I am quite sad that I am not going to be able to attend the opening ceremonies of the games, it will be awesome, out of this world, spectacuar. The Chinese are pulling out all stops to impress the world and they are going to do it.

We had a couple of clear nights last week, nights when it was not raining, nights when it the air was not polluted, so Ike and I headed out to photograph some cityscapes. Somehow we managed to get over to Tsim Sha Tsui (TST) just in time for the nightly Hong Kong Tourism Authority’s Light Show. Basically they have great big spot lights and laser beams on the tops of roughly 30 buildings on the Hong Kong water front. These lights then ‘dance’ and the crowds of tourists gather nightly along the TST waterfront to witness the spectacle. Music is piped out to the crowd along the promenade near the Star Ferry, music that is somewhat muted in its exuberance. Actually it sounds like MUSZAK the stuff your hear in elevators. Obviously the HKTA does not want anyone to get too excited and have a heart attack while watching this nightly exhibition of the crass commercialism of HK. Somehow they get everyone to stare at the tops of all HK buildings for 20 minutes each night. Buildings that have bloody great big ADVERTISING billboards all light up in NEON… Ah Hong Kong the city of Light…

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The photo is giant not the family, ha ha… Anyways, I just picked this up from the framers it is a beautiful picture of Deepu’s family. Unlike Venture Studios, I did not blow out the skin tones by over exposing, over staturation etc.

Rather I shot this on a 21 megapixel camera the Canon 1Ds Mk3, with an 85mm f1.2L lens, one of the sharpest portrait lenes made. Then I spent over a week retouching each shot and then combining them into the layout to create this ‘Giant Family Portrait Master piece’. The finished file once flattened in Photoshop was 845megabytes, and was printed by Color 6.

It is not often that I get really excited about a family portrait picture, but this one is quite special.

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And looking at this picture I think, how did I get so FAT… so off to the gym I go…

Another year has passed and I was again invited to photograph the Shek O Challenge Open Water Race for the two Dougs. This is an annual event and is growing with popularity each year. Swimmers start at Shek O Big Wave Bay and swim the approx 2.5 km to Shek O Back Beach. This years event was well attended with almost 150 participants taking to the water. The weather man cooperated, providing clear skys and a hot hot sun.

The top three swimmers were:

a blistering pace for a 2.2km swim, let alone an OPEN WATER swim.

After the race, participants enjoyed a hot meal courtesy of DELICOUS’s Dennis who now does catering only after his landlord jacked the rent on DELICOUS Restaurant by 100% and he had to close. Music was provided by Dean Morris.

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See you next year at the Hong Kong Shek O Challenge…