Colorful Tuk-tuks

The quickest and cost-effective way in and around Ayutthaya is by riding a tuk-tuk. These colorful auto rickshaw can ride up to six passengers including the driver. As these vehicles frolic the ins and outs of the complex, your driver can serve as an informal guide as he share tidbits of information about the rise and fall of this old Siamese kingdom.

Tuk-tuks are popular not only in Ayutthaya but throughout Thailand and many Asian countries like Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Pakistan, Sri Lanka as well as some African countries such as Ethiopia and Egypt.

Books

Another angled photograph of my computer table turned bookshelf. My Canon PowerShot A95 had a vari-angle LCD that enabled me to be playful with angles when taking photos. This could have been a boring set of books if it were taken at an ordinary angle. I have a thing about shooting at various angles and something averse to what the eyes can plainly see.

These books all drowned during the flooding last September 2009. I don’t have much books now but I’m slowly building back my book collection.

Ornate Temple Walls

I have  a thing about repeating patterns and objects to emphasize on depth. These ornate decorations on the wall is evident in many temples around Bangkok. Don’t ask me about the identity of this being nor what it represents in the Thai culture.

This is one of the many photos I took in my trip to Bangkok, Thailand way back in 2008.

Plates

Onion Rings

One of the first photos I took with the Nikon D90.

Red Cab

One thing about taking photos for fun is that once you’ve mastered using your camera (whether it be a point-and-shoot or a DSLR), and you know how to play around with its settings, you are in a better place to experiment and layer concepts that you’ve learned.

This is a blurred and angled photo of a speeding cab in the busy streets of Hong Kong. In my earlier posts, Red Fire Hydrant and Skew, combining both concepts resulted to this photo. The blur and the angled framing gives the viewer more reason to actively process what he initially sees to make sense of it all.

Additional item: Bumping up the saturation adds more flair as bursting the colors make the subject come alive and become your focal point.

Skew

Tilting the camera in crazy angles to capture images was one of the first things I discovered when I was learning to take photos. Anything that takes you out of the ordinary visually is always appealing to look at. So this otherwise dull alley with a street sign and green trash bins toward the back turned out not so mundane when taken at a certain degree of tilting.

This photo was taken using a LOMO LC-A camera in Little India in Singapore. RIP LOMO LC-A camera. It was my first and only film camera that I owned.

Red Fire Hydrant

Sometimes you get results in your photos when you least expect it. In this one, my fascination with fire hydrants led to getting a photograph with more dramatic results. The blurry image of the motorcycle rider in the background added to the overall composition of  what could have been a lone red fire hydrant along Pham Ngu Lao. The contrast of the blur and the sharp is what makes it visually appealing to look at.

This was taken during my trip to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam in 2008.

Window

This was taken in one of the windows of the many buildings in UP Diliman. More than the straight lines comprising the window structure, the color caught my attention.