la roue de paris

Going home from work I noticed that a structure was being built at the corner of Suan Lum Night Bazaar. It was strange because for sometime it was reported in the news that the Night Bazaar is going to be torn down and in its place a new shopping mall, hotel etc complex is going to be built so it was odd that a new structure is being built. A few weeks later, the imposing structure revealed a huge ferris wheel. Not as big as the London Eye but definitely much bigger than the ferris wheel in the ferias I saw back home in my youth. When it was about finished, I excitedly dropped by with my Holga in tow and took some pictures. I suspected that what I was seeing in the viewfinder is not what was being translated into pictures. So I took notes in a notebook on how I had composed my picture in my viewfinder. This is where I found that there are still a lot to spare to the right and below of the holga viewfinder. I went back one more time with better knowledge of what to expect with the viewfinder. This was when I was able to take a picture of the wheel and the tower of the new L&H Bank building. The result was more or less what I wanted except of the additional foliage below. One of these days I will go back during sunset when the lights of the wheel are turned on just as the sky had turned bright orange as the sun is setting.
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