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When I was in Mexico, I rented a Jeep Wrangler – one of the coolest cars I ever rented – and on my days off from work, I went driving around the local area, going down every dirt road I came by, many of them ended in a barb wired fence, but once in a while it was a road that went on deeper in to the jungle, and on some of these I found some interesting things to photograph.

Like the guy on the photo above. remember this was right after the hurricane Nova that hit hard on the Mexican west coast in October 2011, and the storm had totally ruined his corn field, breaking every crop, I don’t know if he had other fields in the area that where ok, but this fields crops were gone.

But he seamed to be in a good mood after all, and he told – in Spanish, which I don’t understand that much off – all about how the hurricane had ruined the crop and a lot more which I didn’t fully understood.

NB: Remember to click on the geotag link below, to see where the photo was made.

Relaxing in the Shadow

As I wrote a few posts ago, I would be in Japan the next month – almost - Well, here I’m two days into the journey, as always I’ll try to post some of the Japan shoots when I’m still out here, but don’t expect to much cause I rather spent the time hunting for new footage the post-process while I’m on the road.

Today’s shoot is not from Japan but from Thailand – where I was in 2008 – it’s from a temple of some kind, unfortunately I forgot the name of the place – and it was a time before geotags – but, anyway I passed this lady having a break in the shadow from all the hard labour she was doing.

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This photo is actually a lomography, cause it is made without any ideer that it would turnout ok.

I was about to explain to a friend how to use my camera – my very first digital camera, a very crappy HP Photosmart 618, that I had inherited from my parents, when they bought a new camera – I just pressed the release button, to show him how to do that, and bingo…..you can get lucky once in while.

I desatureted the photo – except the hat – in Photoshop, I also cropped and cloned away a few people.
And I added a lot of contrast, cause the HP camera didn’t ad any contrast to the photos.

  • Aperture: ƒ/4
  • Camera: HP PhotoSmart 618 (V1.10)
  • Taken: 15 July, 2005
  • Focal length: 16.5mm
  • ISO: 100
  • Shutter speed: 1/250s

Farmer

This photo is made just outside Chiang Mai. We had hired a taxi driver to take us around the vicinity for a few hours.

Some of the things we saw, were these two farmers who were in the process of repairing their plow, in order to get on with the plowing their rice field.

I pointed to my camera to indicate whether I could make a picture of them, while one linede up for a photograph, the other waited patiently by his moped

The image is converted to black and white in photoshop, and I have added a little sharpen and contrast and used some dodge & burn on his face and the back ground.