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I had recently visited with my sister Bing in Brisbane. She convinced me to visit the Ekka. Ekka was originally known as the Brisbane Exhibition whose main purpose was to showcase the agricultural products of Queensland. Its formal title is the Royal Queensland Show. The show is organized by the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland. Based on information I was able to get from Wikipedia, these shows has been held since 1876. While the agricultural trade shows and the rodeos are still there, the main draw these days are the rides. It was also great to go there because spring started early, the weather was rather mild. The coloured photos were taken with an Holga while the black and white photos were taken using a rollei. A mystery that confounds me is how I was able to do a double exposure of the marilyn statue over one of the ticket booths. The resulting negative is okay so I think it was properly exposed overall.

new building/old building

holga street photos

stairs

double exposures

It took me a while to get it. Previously most of my attempts ended out with a negative that was blocked out like what happened to part of the second frame. However, figuring out that with the Holga, the correct exposure of the and ISO125 film was at F11 made it easier to figure out what combinations of exposures would work. What is needed now is patience and a bit of luck in finding two compatible subjects that can be super imposed so that a multiple exposure can be done successfully. © 2006 Bangkok, Thailand, daddywasabi, all rights reserved.

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.
© 2006, Bangkok, Thailand, daddywasabi, all rights reserved.

royal barges II

I was glad that the lunch at the embassy was finished on time. These things have a way of going longer than expected especially if delicious food is plentiful. Food that reminds me of Manila. I went back home and changed to my yellow shirt. Yellow is the color of Monday which happens to be the birth color of HM the King. I took my Canon 10D because I did not want to leave anything to chance. While I am an avid film user, in situations where I need to be sure of the outcome of my picture and in situations when the picture I need to take is a fleeting event, I always go for digital. It was 1:30 PM when I reached Pra Arthit near Khao San Road. When I got to the fort area, all the places beside the river had already been taken and there are at least 15 layers of people behind them so I will not get a good vantage point. On the way to the park, I recalled that there was a restaurant that was selling tickets for river seats for THB900.00. When I got there, the guard told me that the tickets are sold out. But there are motorcycle drivers there and he told me that they can take me to a place beside the river and a seat would cost me THB600.00. Since the Royal Kathin Ceremony of the Royal Barges is a once and a while event, I did not hesitate to take the offer. Luckily, I was one of the first to get there so I still got a good choice of a seat right beside the river. By 3 pm the house beside the river where I got seats was literally filled with people so I had to brave the heat and claim my seat to be sure that no one else will take it from me. I do not want to give up my vantage point. After the heat, the sky became overcast and the rain fell very hard. As if on cue, right before the start of the parade of the barges, the rain stopped. To commemorate this event, I posted pictures of the barges that I took weeks ago when I accidentally discovered the barges. This picture was the only decent one that came out from the film where for some reason most of the pictures I took were blocked out. The film had a good density based on the contact print so I will be making a silver print of this one day. Below is a photoshopped picture of my favorite among the pictures I took of the Royal Barges.



I almost forgot, all photos © 2006 by daddywasabi, all rights reserved.