Vietnam - Hanoi album III

And the second day of Vietnam is finished.
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Spin

Took the new camera out for a spin last night.

And although still without the lens I need to get before China (the 50mm) - and therefore stuck with the 35mm (which acted like a 50mm on the old camera - I really like that 35mm lens, it's tiny, light, acts great in darker circumstances with its F2, and it gives the pics a strange quality I find difficult to describe. It's like it renders the pictures less glossy than my other lenses), it produced some cool photos quality wise.

Obviously wider than on my old camera (which I already explained in this nerdy post)...

The colors are great, lots of details, and on the higher ISO it really produces much better pictures than the old one.

And since Refie would kill me if I show you the photos of him eating an icecream, he's only visible as a body in a grey T-shirt...

The Bag Man...

Japanese Pepper Lunch for Dinner... Friendly girl at the counter, who went a bit shy when I pointed the camera at her...

Cook it yourself...

Side of a building... to be redone properly with a more wide angled lens one of these evenings...

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Kampung Budaya

Kampung Budaya is a cultural village on Sarawak. At a beautiful location - between misty mountains - they portrait the lifestyle of the Iban, one of the indigenous tribes of Sarawak.

I feared some tacky theme park, as some of these places in the west can be, but it was done in a very tasteful fashion. No MacDonald's half way...

I'm currently working on the pictures of that day, here's a few. The full album hopefully online soon. This was last year, 17th of February 2008...

Long house... this can also be seen 'for real' on Sarawak, not just in this park...

Weaving...

Making some sort of rice cookie... the end product is visible in the basket on the left...

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Droplets

And what is this then?

Well, it's water on one of my plates in my kitchen, after a droplet had bounced off. Isn't it amazing?

So there I was, holding Peng's water dispenser, messing around with plates and light, the camera on a tripod, trying to take a picture of a water droplet... I saw it on television, on one of my trips, lazing around in the hotel room. Some amazing pictures taken with a high speed camera of bouncing water droplets. And then I thought: let's try that too...

It was my first attempt tonight, so give me a break. The lighting is not good, the pics are underexposed, because I needed a very fast shutter time, and the focus can probably improve... I'll get there.

It was an interesting first experiment.

Funny enough, the photos are taken with the old camera, since I don't have a macro lens for the new one yet...


The droplet, almost free...


Yes! My first droplet(s)!


Aftermath...

As usual, click on the photos for a bigger version...

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For the technically inclined and for all the droplet photos:

Canon EOS 40D
Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens
F2.8
ISO 250
1/1000 sec

Those Towers II

In this entry I showed you one of my personal favorites of the towers.

And since the hamsters started to bother some people (I will not mention names here :-) - they left my place in good health by the way, dad is still here, but mum and her kids are gone), today I'm showing you a picture I'm not sure of. It's one of the towers from a less obvious perspective, also during the evening... I just can't make up my mind about it, which usually isn't a good sign...

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Peng and Ping and Offspring - The Album

With some unseen shocking new material!

Click here, for the ultimate hamster experience and view them all!

The good life

My hair looks good, so nice and straigth up, it didn't even need gel this morning... yeah baby, I'm bad, I'm a bad bad boy, maybe I'll go club tonight in The Wheel! And wow you know, I'm really enjoying this thing I'm eating...? This crazy thing... erm... this... well, whatever it is, who cares, it's just too crazy dude! Yum yum...
*nibble*

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Think I need to check those seeds!

Nosey

What the hell is this thing?

Where Peng Peng wonders what a nose is exactly...

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Vietnam - Hanoi album II

And here's the second album.

Vietnam - Hanoi album

Finished up the Hanoi photos, and here's the first album.

The Wheel

Ping Peng, this isn't working...

I told you so!

Who's that guy watching?

I give up...

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Sharing

Dinner time...
(Ping Peng is missing here, most likely he's in The Wheel)

(click for the big version...)

Introducing...

The Offspring
(sweet fruits of hamster love)

Peng Peng

Ping Ping

Peng Ping

Ping Peng

Time for a bigger house?

Peng Ping & Ping Peng in The Wheel, coming soon on a blog near you!

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Those Towers

They bother me a bit... they're so iconic that you simply have to take pictures of them, but you then quickly realise that your pictures are no different from the millions of pictures already out there of these things... Nevertheless, I've taken many photo of them, from different angles. Still haven't found the perfect one, and in this city it's very hard to find an angle where you can actually catch them both, without loosing big parts of it... This one I like... it's not a perfect shot, but the coloring makes it almost look like a pen drawing... It was taken on new years eve 2007 (going into 2008), which explains the blurry sky around the right one... it's the smoke from fireworks... Click on it for a bigger version...