Day 134 (July 23) - Trash or Treasure?

Another photo of the students hard at work today. This is one of my favorites, but I can't actually explain why. Technically, it's not great. The camera was metering the wrong thing, and accidentally underexposed, so it's noisy in the shadows after I brought up the exposure, plus I cut off the top of the kid's head in front.

And yet, I really like it. So, what do you think? Trash or treasure? Let me know.

Day 133 (July 22) - Students

Went to work again today, as I'm feeling better. But fate had arranged a light teaching day for me, so I went and sat in on one of Evan's classes and took some pictures. The kids have no desks in our classrooms, so there is plenty of room to run around and play games. This means, though, that they have to do all their writing sitting on the floor.

Both of these are favorites, for different reasons. I think the top image is much better, photographically, but the bottom image is so much fun! I shot the kids through a glass door, so the reflections are a bit annoying, but you can see what hams they are. And so cute, too!
That's it for today. I stupidly missed the eclipse this morning (total solar eclipse, although not quite total here, 69%) which made me super angry at myself until I read that no one in Bangkok had really seen it, because it was cloudy.

So, a little bit of schadenfreude makes everything better.

Day 132 (July 21) - More Cat

I spent the day at home today, which didn't provide a lot of photographic fodder. But fortunately the cat volunteered to pose for me, and she did a pretty good job!

Day 129 (July 18) - Photowalk?

So yesterday was the second annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk. As you can imagine, I was pretty excited. Evan and I were both signed up for one in Amphawa, a town with a floating market a couple hours away from Bangkok.

But Friday night I had a fever again, and so Saturday morning I made the difficult decision to skip the photowalk, even though I was feeling somewhat better. And then I totally freaked Evan out by passing out, so instead of going to the photo walk, we went to the hospital. Again.

All of which to say, I have no photos from yesterday or today. I'm sorry. And I'm fine, the doctor just thinks I have an antibiotic resistant form of tonsilitis, so he gave me some stronger antibiotics. Tonsilitis. Makes me feel so Victorian. Maybe next time I can have gout, or goiter, or for some really old-school drama, consumption.

Day 128 (July 17) - Care For A Cool Beverage?

Sorry, I drank it all.

Day 127 (July 16) - I Should Buy A Lab Coat

Taking a page out of yesterday's book. This is not as dramatic a photo, nor as dramatic a change, but I still turned an image I would have thrown away into one that I'll keep, for now.

Here's the original (I'm still cringing, showing it). I took this seconds after the other one. I thought I wanted a narrow depth of field, but now I'm not so sure. I think maybe I would like more of the water to be in focus. What do you think?