chinese culture – take a walk

Color your World – Tropical Rain Forest

It appears that Ganesh is lost in the ‘tropical rain forest’.

April 21, 2016April 28, 2017 by Michelle Categories: Color your World, Life, Photo Challenges, Photography, StreetTags: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge, chinese culture, Color your World, Ganesh, tropical rainforest Leave a comment

Photo 101 – Day 16: Treasure & Close-up

My first camera was a Kodak 110 camera. It was a great camera for a ten year old who just wanted to point and shoot. I really didn’t get serious with photography until I took my first photography class in high school. Even then I always wanted to take pictures of people on the street and I didn’t want want them to know so I didn’t get close to my subject.

Fast forward many decades, my camera has zoom and also I did get a zoom lens with greater capability. Still, I really don’t want to get close to my subject and I really don’t want to take pictures that everybody else is taking. Case in point, like this photo of other people getting close to the baby to take the picture.

However I got over my dislike of getting close to my subject. I just have to go about it differently. Here is a box of lucky money they were selling for Chinese New Year.

March 30, 2016 by Michelle Categories: Bangkok, Culture, Life, People, Photo 101, Photo Challenges, Photography, StreetTags: baby, chinese culture, close up, lucky money, Photo 101, Street 2 Comments

Color your World – Neon Carrot

Neon Carrot monkeys for ‘year of the monkey’.

March 8, 2016March 25, 2016 by Michelle Categories: Bangkok, Color your World, Colors, Culture, Photo Challenges, Photography, StreetTags: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge, chinese culture, chinese new year, market, monkeys, neon carrot, toys Leave a comment

Seasons

Living in the tropics, there is no clear distinctions between seasons. It hot, hotter and damn hot days! Only sunny days and rainy days – and the rainy season is while away. We’re moving into the summer- the really uncomfortably damn hot days.

A couple weeks ago was the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year, essentially, it the spring festival. Here are three beauties celebrating the festival in their red cheongsam.