Hits and (mostly) misses

Something I saw reminded me of taking photos with the instax, and i went looking at my old pics. i still don’t really know how to you the various settings on the camera. as you can see, my photos come out with varying effects:

At the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland on a cloudy winter’s day in December

Near Mussenden Temple – the sun had come out for a bit and the colours on the digital camera were great, but no so here (here’s the digital version)

At Dunluce Castle – the instax makes the ruins look even more grim than they actually do (see here), and the Hello Kitty border is unfortunately very incongruous!

I think it worked pretty well on this graffiti dinosaur in Belfast – its a dino wino!

Think the film also gives Universal Studios a rather other-worldy feel..

It was threatening to rain when I took this. I was expecting the images to come out clearer, but I obviously didn’t succeed!

being a tourist

i'm not dead yet.

i've been busy being a tourist first in Singapore, then now in Malaysia, and soon to be in Singapore again.

things have been interesting so far, first with discovering a rooftop garden on Orchard Central:


then discovering that Malacca can be really pretty at night:


while Kuala Lumpur less charming:


so much to say about Malaysia, but will do that another time. Suffice to blog here that having 'rediscovered' Malacca - from when I was last there more than 15 years ago - and having finally been to KL, my curiosity is satiated and I won't be going across the Causeway for a long time to come.