Tag: personal project
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SGN Style, a new project sees the light, yay!
A new blog project to promote up and coming creatives in Saigon. The second project to see the light in 2011. The first one is Saigon Creative, the monthly inspirational breakfast talk. Due to internal restructuring, aSaigonCreativeMorning became Saigon Creative and has now a new website address: http://saigoncreative.blogspot.com/ If you signed up on the old…
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Celebrating Norway’s national day, 17 Mai, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Every year the Norwegian community get together and celebrate 17 Mai. The meet up place is the Norwegian consul’s house, and everybody participate to bring Norwegian food for the event, either by import, returning from a recent visit to Norway or receiving visitors or to source the ingredients locally and make it yourself. True community…
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The outtakes, on location in Saigon, Vietnam
On location, the urbanised jungle, hunting, or rather seeking out items that catches the eye. An exercise of vision in between clothes changes. On location shoots there will always be a bit of downtime between clothes changes and I rather keep the pulse going, trying not to break the concentration and rhythm. It’s more fun.…
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To the top of the world, or at least to the 46th floor, the Skydeck at Bitexco Tower in Ho Chi Minh City
Famous cities around the world like to have an observation deck for tourists to see the city in all its splendour. Paris has its Eiffel Tower, with an almost infinite queue, that I passed on the opportunity of seeing Paris from above. New York was different, the former World Trade Center had both an indoor…
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Chasing the morning light along Saigon river
This is what you get by getting up early. Beautiful light. The road to yourself. Yes, it is a Sunday morning. Hardly any traffic. Fast forward 24 hours and you have the traffic jams. Sunday is a day of rest in most countries. Rest can be many things. It can be a stay in bed…
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The bokeh experiment
Experimentation is vital. It is good. Sometimes it works the way we want. Sometimes not. Nevertheless, we did it. To do is success in itself. The image seen above was taken from Thu Thiem bridge overlooking District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as most residents prefer. It is a long exposure, camera…
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. – Lao Tzu
Another addition to the inspirational poster collection of mine. This time with photography and type, not type alone. Self initiated projects are valuable to keep skill sets alive and force yourself to produce. It is easy to get caught up in all the other aspects of running a photography business that you stop shooting for…
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Finding inspiration and the desire to create.
Twitter and its “Tweets” can be addictive once you start following other interesting contributors. Inspirational quotes are just that, inspirational, and they are one of the bits I fished out of my Twitter stream. I started enjoying reading positive statements infrequently. Then I started wanting to keep some of them for reference and I emailed…
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10th October 2010 at 10 am.
10th of October 2010 fell on a Sunday. Sunday’s are normally “lazy Sundays” where I am hitting the playgrounds with Tian or, as lately, we go and see the water puppet show and then stroll around Saigon Zoo. Finished serving late breakfast or early brunch, I picked up the camera and looked for inspiration as…
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The “100 Faces” photography project and the Vietnamese contribution
“The project is a book in which sale proceeds will be donated to The Global Hunger Project. We are collecting an array of portraits from different photographers around the world. The Goal of this Project: Gain exposure for photographers and the art of photography, raise money for global affairs addressing children poverty, expose the world to…
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Project Charity
The charity project is something that has been on and off. First time we started it, was around 2003. We found 5 different, privately run orphanages and visited them. We interviewed and photographed, went back home and wrote articles about them that were then posted online on a now forgotten portal site. However, the years…