Miscellaneous Photos

Phonetic spelling of 'Mediterranean'

I'm assuming this was a hotel pick-up I saw at Cebu airport.
It looks like some kind of hearse to me.

Yet another Subic Bay sunset

Camera Overload

In a bar in Singapore our table is cluttered with camera gear (there are only 4 of us), although there's more drinking going on than photo taking.

From left to right, front to back:
Ricoh GR1s
Fuji X-20
Panasonic Lumix FZ100
Contax IIIA (with Voigtlander VC lightmeter)
Fuji X-Pro1
Olympus XZ-1

More Birds

This one is a regular visitor to the garden and sits on the washing line pole looking for insects to eat.

Photographed using the Panasonic Lumix FZ100  1/200 sec f5.2 with
the lens fully zoomed out to 108mm (600mm 35mm eq.)

Philippines Del Trotter

If you don't know what I mean, it's the 3-wheeler.

Check out this link Del Boy's van

Flying Blind II

If you read my earlier posting, Flying Blind, about the alarming frequency that birds seem to fly into the windows of the house where I'm living, you'll know I wasn't able to post some photos that I couldn't find of a flock of birds that crashed into the window.

Well, I eventually found them. They were still on the memory card inside a little used camera - a Canon 350d, and here they are (some may find them distressing!)

Initially survived but died soon after

Lost in Translation (Taiwan)

I've no idea what this is supposed to mean......

Wet and Windy

It's rainy season again in the Philippines. And typhoon season. We've just had a particularly powerful  cat.5 typhoon (Odette or Usagi to use its international name) pass over the north end of Luzon. Thankfully it didn't pass directly over the Philippines because the fallout from it missing the place was bad enough.  Olongapo was completely flooded, as were most of the surrounding towns and villages. Sadly too many people died as a result of the flooding and a large landslide killed 23.

Subic Bay was largely unscathed but then that's probably a legacy of good infrastructure left courtesy of the Americans.  It says volumes that the drainage systems still work as effectively today as it did when they it was installed.  The drainage system doesn't seem to work anywhere else in the Philippines.

Manila floods every year but it gets reported like it wasn't expected.  The only thing that's unexpected is the fact that it wasn't expected.

Our wages clerk went to the bank the other day to pay in some cheques.  Some of the banks wouldn't accept them.  When I asked why, I was told because it was raining.  To clarify I asked if the banks were closed because it was raining but no, they were open but just wouldn't accept any cheques because it was raining.  Work that one out if you can because I can't see any logic to it.