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 This is the start of what I intend to be an extensive photo essay on Japan—shot entirely on film—and hopefully the world if I decide that the value of a 35mm SLR out weighs the inconvenience and physical cost of luging it around. This is an old issue for me that comes up every time I . . . → Read More: Japan in Monochrome  Here I’ve cobbled together a selection of photos from the first stage of the journey. The photos are more or less in chronological order representing the 10 countries travelled: Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China and Japan. There’s 150 images so if you have the stamina you could set the speed slider (top . . . → Read More: First Stage Slideshow I was pretty happy yesterday when my film scanner arrived in my sleepy little town from Tokyo, or wherever the Amazon warehouse is located. It’s no substitute for the darkroom (as a friend once said, “You lose all the beautiful filminess!”) but at least I’ll finally be able to digitise the film I’ve shot in the last . . . → Read More: New Toy I just spent the weekend trying to (finally) bring this new version of my website up-to-date, reposting the old journals and attempting to put some sort of logical order to things. And I figured while I’m at it I should finish sorting out my photographs from the first stage and archive them properly. It was the . . . → Read More: Hand Painted Signage in Asia This is my first blog, I think. I admit that I wasn’t really sure what a blog is or is supposed to be, so I looked it up in Wikipedia. I learnt, for instance, that blog is contracted from web log. Blog, unlike frog or clog, slipped into my vocabulary without fully knowing its definition. That’s . . . → Read More: First blog, I think
My new earthodyssey.net site Dear all Apologies for disappearing the last couple of weeks. It’s been a necessary inconvenience in order to set up a new site for my journey around the world. If you sent me an email in December or January and haven’t received a response it’s because my account was temporarily disabled. I . . . → Read More: New earthodyssey.net site #11 10 January 2008—12 February 2008 ‘You have only to see what you see and feel what you feel.’
I had a fundamental decision to make. One that had been rolling around in my head since day one, and I knew I would have to face up to it in the next year: east or . . . → Read More: Japan #10 26 November 2007—7 January 2008 One of my final glimpses of Vietnam was of a motorcycle loaded sky-high with caged chickens, hitting the skids and coming to grief on hwy 1A. Considering my experience there, a road accident full of chickens seemed an unsurprising and appropriate image to depart with. Needless to say, the chooks were pretty . . . → Read More: China #9 3 November 2007—25 November 2007 BACK INTO THAILAND Contrary to information I had received in Bangkok from the Laos embassy, I discovered that visas aren’t in fact available on entry at the Cambodia-Laos border on the Mekong River, which had supposedly been recently upgraded to International Status. This meant I had to make a visa run to Phnom . . . → Read More: Laos & Vietnam #8 9 October 2007—2 November 2007 ‘A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thought.’ BANGKOK In Southeast Asia all roads lead to Bangkok, and if you can see through the smog you’ll see that even in Thailand’s capital city the Thai live by their maxim ‘chai yen’ or ‘keep a cool heart’ (meaning . . . → Read More: Thailand & Cambodia |
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