San Agustin Church

It's nice to spend the weekend at home in Manila :)

Same Same Same

Art mimics life at the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor:



Shot with a Voigtlander Bessa R & Industar 61 lens, + Era 100 film at E.I. 200.

Postcard Store

A young Cambodian awaits customers at her postcard store inside the Preah Khan temple in Angkor:



Shot with a Voigtlander Bessa L & Snapshot Skopar 25mm lens + Era 100 film at E.I. 200

Same Same

...but different:



The Khmer woman vs the French woman. That's 700 years and a few thousand miles of culture apart. The image at left is an apsara statue from the Bayon temple in Angkor, while the image at the right is a wall carving from an old French colonial mansion in Phnom Penh. Funny how they almost the same, but different...

Money Trees

Money may not grow on trees, but on some days it seems the case in Thailand:



Villagers offer donations for the upkeep of the Na Phra Larn Buddhist temple in Koh Samui, Thailand. The occasion is a community event, with hundreds of locals turning out to pin money on the branches of these potted "trees". Traditional dancing is performed, followed by a solemn, yet rather festive procession around the temple.

Koh Samui, Baby!

A waitress prepares for evening diners at the Zazen Restaurant in Bophut Beach, Koh Samui:



This was shot on the last night of my Samui assignment, after a long month of shooting different locations each weekend. I'll be desk-bound for the next few weeks, but hell - I can't wait for the next overseas shoot... :)

Shot for Fah Thai, the inflight magazine of Bangkok Airways.

Stories on Walls

Seen on the wall of an old French colonial mansion, just behind Sisowath quay:



I wonder what those Khmer writings mean. Placed against this patriotic looking sticker, one can probably say the graffiti speaks of love of country, or subversion, or politics, etc.

Or maybe it just means "bawal ihi putol titi".

Anybody wanna guess what these writings might mean?