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Pro Color Lab has a range of stuff as well.

http://procolorlab.com/

Just back from Cambodia, drier than normal over there too.

At high noon I bury myself in the shade of buildings or trees and work from there. Usually i get the subject to face the open area so they get a higher level of ambient with a lower amount of colour cast. You have to watch for green reflections from foliage and other colours coming off buildings. A gray card can help a lot in these situations.

Here is a sample of a shot I took using this method. It was incredibly sunny and hot, so I just moved her back into the shadows until liked the light on her face and in her eyes. You can see the sun blowing out areas of the background.

To my mind there are three elements to this kind of photo - light, composition and 'the moment'. Light is fairly easy to control once you practice.

Has this guy ever heard of second passports?

Why on earth stay in Canada waiting to be extradited?....the stupidity...

Uh, this guy is anything but stupid. He was under house arrest in Vancouver for years.

Some pix I've done for Mercy Center in Klong Toei.

As a former restaurant owner I can tell you it is a lot of work to make money in the food biz. Maybe you know this, but you want to have a tight business plan or else you are going to work like crazy for very little profit. If you want to charge reasonable prices you are going to have to do serious volume.

With the prices that most Indian restaurants charge here I suspect that they make enough from just one table of four per day to cover all their bills and give themselves a fancy pension as well. Indian restaurant prices here are absurdly high.

I would hazard a guess you have never run a restaurant.

"mostly operating in Thailand and Pattaya"

I flew out of Phnom Penh with them after the coup in 1997. Only 6 of us on that huge plane, and they put us all in the same row. Easier to hand out the water maybe.

Completely depends on your place and what kind of breeze and cover you have.

I was in Phnom Penh for much of the 90s. I had a place near the river on the 3rd floor with tiled floors, high ceiling, overhead fan and large terrace. (2X size of flat.) I never turned the a/c on, even once, in 6 years. In my BKK condo it's 24/7 during this season.

Thanks.

Checked Home Pro yesterday but they didn't have the smaller (e.g. 4 kgs) one I was looking for, 6.5 kgs was the smallest. Will try the others today.

I am looking for one of those small top load washing machines that fit on condo balconies. I've tried a few places but only found one poor quality example at Big C on Ratchadamri.

Would like to find a store with a bit of selection. Any info appreciated.

Don't know if this is in another thread, but possible to do same day visa service in BKK for a bit more baht. Morning drop, afternoon pickup.

Bloom is probably the best custom printer in town.

http://bloomprolab.com/

I have flown Air Asia dozens of times and while it ain't Singapore Air, I have never experienced something like that.

I would register a complaint.

As a former restaurant owner I can tell you it is a lot of work to make money in the food biz. Maybe you know this, but you want to have a tight business plan or else you are going to work like crazy for very little profit. If you want to charge reasonable prices you are going to have to do serious volume. With deliveries over a wide area, that makes it very complicated from Day One.

Same. I came in this week at midnight. Wheels touched tarmac at midnight, by 1am I was home near Victory Monument.

A lot of chatter here about horrific cues etc, but I'm just not seeing them, and I am in and out all the time.

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I bought an 11" Mac Air for travel processing etc. (I have a 15" MacBook Pro for day to day photography work.)

The Air is a perfect solution IMO. You would want to have a USB drive as well to make sure everything is copied to 2 HDs.

Thais learn from reading, not just speaking. The country has an adult literacy rate of 94%. How did they get there if they don't learn by reading?

Also, it's not true that it takes forever to become fluent. I know two foreigners who have become native speakers quite quickly. One guy spoke 15+ languages so it was very easy for him. I know one other who spent one year of intensive study and is completely fluent. He is on Thai TV a bit and is becoming quite well known.

As above, Shahrazad. Great hummos and awesome baba-ganoush. I have been eating there for over 20 yrs and it hasn't changed at all. Some of the same waitresses are still there.

I was eating there last month and one waitress asked my friend if he was still living on Petchaburi Soi (I forget) and he said "no, I moved in 1997". She remembered from his take-away orders.

I just learned this grid 20+ years ago when I started studying a bit of Thai. I found it massively useful for learning tones.

http://blog.joshsage...teToneRules.jpg

or

http://www.its4thai.com/assets/tonerules/5.gif

Yes, Canon will fix that known problem quickly. I have always had excellent service from Canon Thailand, except the last visit to drop off a busted flash unit in early February. Still not fixed. (Last time took 5 days.)

I just pretend to pick up a rock and they usually run. If there is actually a rock handy I will throw it hard at the head.

I have around 30 external HDs I use for my work as a photographer.

I really like the WD portable ones, mainly because they have adapters that can make them either USB or Firewire compatible. (So I can use them with my Mac Air while traveling.)

Here is a shot I took a few years ago of skinned frogs and rats at the wet market in Battambang.

At 20 baht a kilo for fresh field rat, a cheap and apparently very tasty source of protein.

http://www.flickr.co...knia/140314342/