I just got back from a cruise down the Perfume River, where we joined a charming elderly French couple to see the famous pagods and tombs of central Vietnam (for background see yesterday’s post). It was rainy, which in Vietnam means everything gets caked in mud. Fortunately our boat only broke down once, and the aforementioned French couple were wonderful company.
Color photos just weren’t coming out as they should with the dreary weather, so I switched to sepia to get in a jolly good 19th century mood, wot wot. Seven photos of the tombs and the Hue environs follow.
Off to Hanoi in half an hour.
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Saru added these pithy words on 19 Dec 05 at 3:25 pmＴｈï½”¦Ã£â‚¬â‚¬Ã¯Â½Â?ï½Â?ｎ　ï½—ï½”°Ã¯Â½”?ｈ　ï½”?ｈï½”¦Ã£â‚¬â‚¬Ã¯Â½Ë†Ã¯Â½Â?ï½”¦Ã£â‚¬â‚¬Ã¯Â½”°Ã¯Â½“　ï½Â?　ï½’ï½”¦Ã¯Â½Â?ｌｌｙ　ï½”¡Ã¯Â½’ï½”¦Ã¯Â½Â?ï½”?　ｓｈï½Â?ï½”?．
Mutantfrog added these pithy words on 19 Dec 05 at 5:11 pmI like how the sepia works on the cracked pavement, but I think some of the others would look better in black and white, although the black and white produced by the camera’s internal filter is often kind of sucky-best to shoot in color and convert in photoshop by picking color channels.
rude_brit added these pithy words on 19 Dec 05 at 8:31 pmI find the last two particularly catching.
Curzon added these pithy words on 20 Dec 05 at 3:40 pmMF: actually, I’d take the opposite position—I think the Sepia works for all but the pavement. But it’s really more about mood than anything else—the Sepia shots make it feel like photos of a century earlier and how the French imperialists of the time would have taken the photos. Those are just my silly eclectic tastes…
