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Halong Bay Photo Essay

May 08, 2017 • Leave a Comment

The Bay of Tonkin has a 1500 square km expanse of shallow water called Halong Bay in which limestone and dolomite karsts abound. The air is cool and the water is an unreal bottle green. On the day that I visited it was cloudy and the diffused light was less contrasty than I might have originally desired. But it made up for this in spades. First,...

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Hanoi with the iPhone 7 Plus

May 08, 2017 • Leave a Comment

Hanoi is a traditional Asian city in many respects: surging crowds, chaotic traffic, the decrepit mansion cheek by jowl with the fashionably modern and pristine, uninhibited romance on the streets, an explosion of cafes for the middle class, a plethora of bars for the richer classes, and the inevitable trappings of modernisation: pollution, conspic...

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Udayagiri

February 25, 2017 • 1 Comment

I have now been visiting India every month on account of work and have begun a sporadic but deliberate rediscovery of India. At least those parts that I have visited before and that I would now, with the aid of digital image technology, like to capture for my own pleasure. Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I had an opportunity to spend about an...

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Bangkok Weekend

October 06, 2016 • Leave a Comment

There's precious little to write about Bangkok that hasn't already been said in one way or another. So this time I'll just stick to the photos and state that visiting after many years I chose to stay in a more "seemly" part of town only to discover that the tentacles of the tourism octopus have spread everywhere. There is more thuggery, seediness a...

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