Just settling down to an afternoon of doing not very much at all, when the call comes from neighbour Nik who is also at a loose end and suggests a trip to the Saha Farms complex. It’s a tacky monstrosity of a place; but it’s just down the road and maybe there is something to shoot.

Turns out to be bloody hot and enthusiasm soon wanes; but not before I knock off some shots with the very wonderful Panasonic 7-14mm:

Regular readers who have managed to stay awake will know that I am was the proud owner of three Kiev cameras. To refresh your memory:

Thank (insert deity of your choice) for that.

The visitor statistics for this site suffered a massive blip in May 2010; courtesy of a post about a certain Mr. Jeff Savage, who later visited upon us with death threats and other dire warnings. I rather hoped to someday overcome the Jeff effect; and June was finally the month to break the record.

Eleven thousand, five hundred and twelve visits, which is around eleven thousand, five hundred more than I could reasonably expect.

The Beaches development in Bang Saray was announced with considerable fanfare in 2008. The brochure describing the development was a little flexible with the truth regarding the location, and the project cannot have been helped when one of the directors was alleged to have absconded with deposits.

Since then, the development site has remained quiet; apart from a half-hearted attempt to start construction of a waterpark.

But now the site is teeming with workers and machinery! Hooray for The Beaches! Happy days for investors in the project! Well, not exactly. Yes, there is finally going to be a waterpark; but the original developer seems to have disappeared and the site has been taken over by Turner Broadcasting for the construction of a Cartoon Network themed park.

I think the sign around the site could usefully be used at many construction sites in the area.

Many of the recreational activities in Pattaya are conveniently ambiguous.

You can pop into a girlie bar and you may indeed just be going for a beer. On the other hand you might be lining up a foursome with a lady, a ladyboy and another mammal; but that will not be clear to anyone observing you entering the bar.

How about a massage? There are establishments which quite clearly offer only massage; places which quite clearly say massage but offer everything but, and a host of businesses which will provide you with a normal massage, topped off with what is euphemistically known as a “happy ending”.

However, if you walk in here it is very clear what you are in for:

She who must be obeyed: You could pose for this. Me: Indeed! Canon 1D with the 300mm lens, extender and lens hood fitted just to be sure. She who must be obeyed: No. With your GX1. And that little pancake lens. Me: Oh.

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2012-06-28 | Spanky says

Micro 4/3 just took on a whole new meaning. You should have gotten a G3 of a GH2 or something. Least the body is bigger.

Up at 0530 in order to send some visitors to catch the early ferry to Koh Larn. Actually, the sending bit was done by she who must be obeyed; my role was to make the coffee and then crawl back into bed and mutter in a complaining manner.

No chance to go back to sleep, so off to Nong Nuch with the big rig with the intention of trying out some of the techniques in the flower art book. But I was tired, it was hot, and the Canon does not handle easily to perform the manipulations described in the book. So I just stuck it on a tripod and pointed it at things.