Another dose of red

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I know I'm sure by now you've seen plenty photos of the building where I live, but here's another one anyway. I photoshopped the sky so that it's flat and cool grey in tone to make the whole image look more like color swatches.

Got back early this morning (or late last night) from Amsterdam. That was a good trip, even the bus ride back wasn't so bad, I managed to get some sleep.

Can't wait to see how the pictures I took came out.


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Amsterdam

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Found myself in a bus to Amsterdam. It's a new experience, long distance bus ride, but eventually it's just as any long distance mode of transportation. All I wanted was to get it over with and get to the destination. In a way it was more comfortable than flying, because one has the comfortable feeling of being closer to the ground, better than train because it stopped several times, and of course, compared to driving, one doesn't have to bother about finding one's way and the fatigue of driving itself, and the advantage of being able to sleep whenever one wants to. The downside, of course, is that it took a loooooooong time.

Will be seeing Wil there, and Gau and Tony after a very long time. I last saw Tony in the Philippines, about three years ago, and Gau I think when I left Hong Kong for California, six years ago. We all decided to meet up in Amsterdam this weekend, to see the Madonna "Confessions" tour.


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He just had to be in the picture (A major disappointment)

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So I was taking this small gate of one of my neighbors, and this kid just sped through, which is just as well, the version without him had absolutely nothing going for it.

You'll just have to get used to these pics. I haven't been doing anything else lately but take pictures and scanning them, so if I don't write to you about them, I've got nothing else to write about.


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Oh yeah, major disappointment yesterday. I did this competition piece for a furniture design. I finished it yesterday, after about two weeks on picking on the details. Surprise, surprise, when I went to the DHL center they told me they don't have overnight delivery. HA! I shoved my entry in the bottom drawer.


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The serial scanner

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I think I've become a serial scanner. Encouraged by yesterday's photo, I decided to dig up other films. This one is the film version of a digital image that you've seen before, from the Malt Whiskey Society of Edinburg, in Scottland.

I went coo coo when I discovered that the lab where I took the film (in London, close to where we used to live) messed up the whole roll. It had more speckles and scratches than a silent movie, and I had to spend so much time to repair it. In the end though, it was worth it. I'm thinking of having it printed poster size. The film is in medium format, there's enough detail in it.


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P.S.
This is what the Flickr people has to say about the photo.


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Cross processing

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Something new today. I decided to have a roll of film cross processed, one I took same day as the Erlangen canal ones. It came out very greenish, but there's something about this screwed up colors that I like a lot. I'd almost say it's got a retro feel to it, like those 70's photos, but in green instead of magenta. Anyway, it's the best image of Erlangen that I've taken so far.





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Cheap shot

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Just to show that I'm not above the occasional sky shot (esp. when I don't have anything else to show you), but then I'm sure you know that already.


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Yet another old building

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This one's right next to the Asian grocery where I buy Thai vegies.


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