Author: Mads Monsen
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Walkabout in Saigon – The second tour with Ian
Ian is a brilliant guide. A photo walk together with him is always inspiring and a joy. This time we met up in District 5 and walked around several pagodas. Ended up having a small, refreshing break, both to quench our thirst as well as clear our eyes from all the incense smoke, before continuing…
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Bergen Aquarium – The annual visit amongst penguins, spiders and snakes
One of the highlights of the annual trip to Norway is the visit to Akvariet. Always a treasure grove for images. Enjoy the show!
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The Crossing – A ferry ride to Tra Vinh
The ferry ride deserves a blog post on its own. Beautiful day. Perfect weather. A smooth sailing. While most of the men whipped out their cigarette packs and lit up in the shade, I walked around in the sunshine and used my camera, much to their surprise. A non-smoker, a sunshine loving stranger snapping away,…
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Site inspection and the accidental tourist in Tra Vinh City
It started with a phone call. Followed up with a meeting and some coffee. An invite was given and I gladly accepted. Soon I found myself on the way to Tra Vinh, to visit the production facilities of my new client. An impressive site. An equally impressive production line and working environment. I stayed for…
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Meet the Ebretta and the V-Tronic, the electric vintage looking scooters
Saigon Scooter Centre (SSC), have just launched two electric scooters, a Lambretta and a Vespa, perfect for inner-city travel. Speed of up to 60km per hour and a traveling distance of 40 kilometers on a full charge ought to be enough to whizz around town in green style. Patrick, from SSC, brought the bikes over…
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The portrait of Ostrich
I met Ostrich at Big Mountain, Vung Tau. On a Sunday family outing. It’s roughly seven months since I last took a trip and blogged about it. The roadworks between Saigon and Vung Tau are still in progress, however, traveling time is now less than 2 hours by car. The ticket price has now increased…
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Vietnam’s Liberation Day and the beach holiday to Mui Ne
End of April and beginning of May have two public holidays here in Vietnam. 30th April is the liberation day, or Victory Day as it is also referred to, and 1st of May is the International Labour Day. This year, those days fell on a Monday and Tuesday respectively. A very long weekend indeed, and…
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The Saigon Zoo shoot out
Maissa contacted me some time ago. She hoped we could do a photo shoot together. I contacted a photographer friend of mine. I hoped we could do a shoot together. In the end, we managed to arrange both time and place. A previous used location, the Saigon Zoo. The challenge is to come up with…
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Purpleasia and Landor Associates – A strategic partnership
On March the 1st, Purple Asia and Landor Associates hosted an Executive Brand Brunch at Strata, Level 50 at the Bitexco Financial Tower in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City and not only did I get to cover the event, I also got to enjoy the presentations as well. Branding is an interest of mine…
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Styling with JnG Couture
Parallel with the fashion shoot for JnG Couture, we did another shoot that JnG Couture styled, enjoy:
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Lacoll in the air
Dance. A dancer. Fashion. The new Lacoll collection. All elements to be combined in the studio. This is one of those assignments that you are glad you paid extra to have a faster flash duration on your studio flashes, as you will capture movement in the air. For the light setup itself, I took the…
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Collaboration with JnG Couture – Part II
As before, we went on location, but instead of outdoor, it was indoor. Only one piece to shoot, so a few samples of different crops. Enjoy:)
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Why the best camera you ever have is the camera you have available right now
March 2nd, 2012 I received a sms telling me that a relative of mine, Ivar, just passed away. Ivar & Brita. Two names together, now only one left behind, Brita. Last Xmas, December 2011, we could not see them when Tian and I went back to Norway. They were too exhausted to receive visitors so…
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Monkey madness
On location deep inside the Mekong, we set up and photographed a storage room in a small village. It was the main distribution centre in the area. In between shots as my assistants moved lights, I saw something next door. At first, I noticed the shafts of light coming in to what I believed was…
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A half day at the park – The wedding photography assignment
Love knows no borders. David and Mai met in Australia where they live. David is Vietnamese, Mai is Japanese and they wanted to do their wedding pictures in Vietnam together with their families. Mai had happened to see our work and liked it enough to contact us for the occasion. It is always great to…
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New Year’s Eve in Bergen with Xmas lights, bokeh and fireworks
End of 2011 brought no snow and no white Xmas to Bergen, Norway. Instead we faced strong wind, one of the worst storms ravaging the coastline and rain as the year drew to an end. Not really an incentive to leave the cozy home for shots that would end up as mediocre. So a study…
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The Xmas tradition, the annual trip to Norway. In transit.
Two years ago, Tian and I went back to Norway on Xmas holiday and experienced a white Xmas. Last year, we did the same trip and got a snowless experience. That didn’t hamper the Xmas mood, seeing friends and family during the holiday is simply a priceless experience in itself. So is the travel to…
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Collaboration with JnG Couture in Saigon, Vietnam
Working with passionate people is always good and you finish with your energy levels boosted and a wish to push things further and further. Meeting John will give you that experience, he brings fresh flavour to anyone he works with and it is always a pleasure to collaborate with him. Here are samples from two…