How to have a good time at Angkor

First thing, get a good tuk-tuk driver, because you will be depending on him to get you around.

I was in Cambodia for a week-long trip recently, and thanks to my sister who went there just before me,  I managed to find a good tuk-tuk driver for my Siem Reap leg.

Sra Pon was my man for four days. I know I will be calling him up the next time I got to Cambodia! (which may be quite soon)

© Lin Zhaowei, 2009.

He's sincere, helpful and best of all, he provides free bottled water on his tuk tuk! Can't beat that, really. And his prices are very reasonable -- I didn't need to bargain at all.

If you are interested in engaging his services, he can be reached at srapon(at)ymail(dot)com.

When instant photography was still called Polaroid

I've just published a post on the ST Blog about the return of Polaroid.

A reader posted a short video of his Polaroid project on my ST Blog post. It's worth a quick look!

My rediscovery of Polaroid started when my mum dug out my Polaroid One from a closet. I believe it was a free gift when I bought my Sony point-and-shoot digital camera back in 2003. I quickly forgot about it then.

The Impossible Project could turn out to be something like Lomography -- low-tech but cool and a little overpriced -- because the one of the brains behind the Lomo Society is one of the two behind the Impossible Project. But with a pack of ten Polaroids going at over US$20 now, I doubt it can get any worse. That's what I hope anyway...

Chanced upon this flickr stream when I was searching for info about Polaroids, there are some nice photos there. The photographer, Kat White, actually published a book on blurb.com, and it seems to be selling quite well too!