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04-DEC-2005 dominic

04-12-05 collection dish

After 8 long years with my company, I was finally told this year, that they were going to send me a
bit further afield than Luxembourg. This time I was off to Singapore. As these things often fall
through I thought the easiest way to do it was not mention the visit to anyone, apart from close
family, and Terry who was incidentally the best tour guide I could have asked for.

Anyway, the trip started OK, it was tough saying goodbye to Catherine, but my boss & I made the
flight out to Amsterdam, before catching our connection over to Singapore. 12 hours later, we were
flying over the kind of islands you see on "The Beach", beautiful jungle covered hills coming out
of the water like dragons teeth.

This is one of the first shots I took on arrival, the main reason being that the photo's from the
night before were pretty much a write off. The journey had taken it's toll, and I seemed to have
one leg longer than the other, judging by the horizons in many shots. So this one was taken in an
old taoist temple, which now seems to be used to show people how the way of life used to be.

As I mentioned in my singapore gallery, you're going to have to bear with me, as there are over 500
shots from the trip. And shooting the whole thing in RAW just slows down the process, especially
when you're using what seems like a clockwork powered computer!

Canon EOS 350D ,Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
1/640s f/5.0 at 37.0mm iso1600 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Jude Marion27-Dec-2005 18:33
Fantastic image ...
The lighting and textures are wonderful, and the comp is perfect!
type20-Dec-2005 15:07
Good comp, Dominic. The sense of enclosure of different geometric forms is great.
Chris17-Dec-2005 17:47
I liked this horizontally, but I find it even better from this perspective. The weightiness of the bowl is supported by it's position in the frame. GMV