One of the applications on my iPad that I visit daily is a collaboration between The Guardian newspaper and Canon. Called Guardian Eyewitness, it features a new photo almost every day, with a caption describing the photo, plus “pro tips” on how to take such a photo. These tips are usually useful, although there are exceptions, such as this:
The tip reads: “When taking pictures in space make sure you have a comfortable stance, with feet firmly planted to avoid camera shake”. Thanks, I will bear that in mind the next time I am orbiting the earth.
Yesterday’s photo was this:
It’s Rama IV road in Bangkok and it holds a place in my heart, because I spent a substantial portion of my Bangkok life there, stuck in traffic jams on my way home from work. I think it is a wonderful photograph, capturing the the anger and the sadness which now pervades the city I used to call my home.
Things are getting worse by the day. The only option open to the reds is to escalate, and the government either does not respond quickly enough, or responds too harshly; depending on your point of view. But there is no doubt that life for the residents of Bangkok in certain areas is hell. It is hard to see how this can now end without a substantial loss of life, with divisions in Thai society which will take years to heal.
I discussed this with she who must be obeyed last night and she agreed that Thailand would be a changed society. No more land of smiles, she said. But then she smiled at me, so I guess my little world is OK.
If you want to know what it feels like to be caught up in a (rather one-sided) firefight, read this.
Guardian Eyewitness on the web is here.
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2010-05-17| wentworth sayshttp://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/first_of_the_last_space_shuttl.html
2010-05-17| wentworth says^ Amazing photo gallery.
2010-05-17| Spike saysIndeed; highlights just the complexity of the shuttle programme.
2010-05-17| genuinej saysThe second photo looks like an update of L S Lowry, taking into account the modern trend towards obesity. i.e. overweight matchstalk men etc., etc.
2010-05-18| todd saysdid you see the video? http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=123968350962277
i was of the opinion a while back that the reds brought this army fight on themselves… however the army seems to be out of control, what ever happened to rules of engagement? endlessly pot shotting at unarmed civilians with no threat or danger to themselves is reckless and attempted murder.
if our soldiers in iraq or afghanistan ACCIDENTALY kill civilians they end up in a world of trouble, what’s the thai army doing deliberately doing trying to kill their own people.
2010-05-18| Spike saysIf you go to the link referenced in my post:
“If you want to know what it feels like to be caught up in a (rather one-sided) firefight, read”:
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2010/05/16/nick-nostitz-in-the-killing-zone/
there is a description of what looks like the same incident from someone who was there. It does not make for comfortable reading.