confusionMy costly hobby. Find all my photos Flickr.
This house is really in the middle of the corn field, it’s not a fancy angle or photoshop magic. There is no driveway, it’s corn all the way to the front door. And the back door. And the windows. The house is of course abandoned, I guess they decided it was not worth ripping up the foundation to plant more corn, so they left it and planted corn around it.
One of my better flower photos. Taken in a small door step garden box of an office building in London near the Tower of London!
Photo taken at Old Changi Hospital in Singapore. The rest of the set is here [flickr.com]
I’ve been to Jakarta three times on business, all three times it was fly in in the morning, have a meeting and then fly out. This time the meeting was on Friday afternoon so I decided to stay a night and see about some photos.
First off; there is nothing in Jakarta to photograph if you want typical Southeast Asian travel photos. No great ancient temples, no colorful Chinatown (there is a Chinatown but it’s not much different than any other part of town. The closest thing to interesting sites is old Batavia where the Dutch built their capital. Unfortunately for me it seemed to be under renovation—the whole damn city square!
Jakarta is a sprawling stinking polluted mess of a city. Dotted with ‘heroes of the revolution’ type statues and monuments that would not be out of place in Stalins Moscow. The constant haze and pollution means getting decent photos of these monument is hard.
I guess there must be little back alleys and hidden places that would be interesting to photograph, places that would be fun or exciting to visit but even the Lonely Planet only devotes two pages of it’s Southeast Asia on a Shoestring book to Jakarta.
It’s just not that interesting. But you can see the rest of the Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2007 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].