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13
December 2008

donkey cambodia

part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4

A gallery containing some images from my 6 week trip to Cambodia taken with the Canon G9. You might not be able to see them in your RSS reader.

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13
December 2008

bangkok international

part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4

Six weeks. One point and shoot. Could I do it? That certainly was the question I was asking myself as I was stepping onto my flight to Bangkok. Of course, other thoughts crossed my mind too, like “Did I forget something?” and  ”Will that kilo of ham in my luggage go off before we get there?” Well, let’s find out if the G9 was up to the task.

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12
December 2008

cambodian hotel

When you’re an avid photographer, you always like to be prepared. It’s hard to leave home without a camera and a lens or two, let alone go on a long trip without all your gear. And being an avid photographer, you probably have accumulated quite a lot of gear. So, when you find yourself going on holidays to some other part of the world, you’re going to have to ask yourself: “What the hell do I take and what do I leave behind?”

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10
December 2008

net tuts

Now, I must say I’m new to blogging and by no means am a professional blogger, this being my 6th blog post ever. But I have been reading blogs since forever and there’s something that really irks me about a lot of the commercial tutorial blogs, and that thing is the Unnecessary Adjective & Arbitrary Numbered List™.

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9
December 2008

010 600x400 police motorcycle training

The picture above has nothing to do with police motorcycle training but I thought it was funny. That’s a shot taken in Cambodia and it’s not an uncommon sight. We had a medium sized refrigerator delivered to our house by motorcycle once. Fun times.

Anyways, came across these two videos that I found interesting. One is of the French police doing their motorcycle training and the other is of the Japanese police doing theirs. Quite impressive.

Videos after the jump.

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