Declared Delta Air Lines in an advertisement. These were the words that greeted me at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. This was back in November 2011. I had flown from Brussels on Delta Air Lines on business class. When I entered the cabin, it felt like I had gone back in time into the 1980s. The…
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Centuries ago, weary tea and horse traders travelling along the Ancient Tea-Horse Road 茶马古道 passed through Lijiang en-route to or from Shangri-la. Bricks of pu-erh tea 普洱茶 were bartered for Tibetan horses amongst the merchants. It was in Lijiang, which is in China’s Yunnan province, where my budding love affair with Chinese tea started. The year was 2008 and you can read…
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Sometimes it’s strange how much and how little I remember from some of my travels… I was talking to someone recently and he questioned if one is preoccupied with photographing something, might he/she be missing out on the full ‘picture’ as this person would only see what and experience whatever he/she was seeing through the…
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I recently discovered “Space Is Only Noise“, an enthralling debut album by American-Chilean musician Nicolas Jaar, while browsing on YouTube. The album cover reminded me of two photos that I had taken in December 2009 at Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris with my Lomo LC-A, using a roll of Kodak TXP400 film. The first track on…
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Où se trouve la plus belle vue sur Paris? Taken with Lomo LC-A with an expired roll of Fuji Sensia 200
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After yesterday’s post, I was looking through my files and realised that I’ve taken more photos of the Eiffel Tower than I thought I did! Here are some that I took while on the same side of Paris as the tower, i.e. the Left Bank, la Rive Gauche.Taken with Lomo LC-A + expired Fuji Sensia…
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I was eight when my mum decided that our family would start going to church – we had always been free-thinkers and didn’t pray to any particular god. Thus began my weekly struggle to get out of bed at an ungodly hour of 7 in the morning for Sunday class, followed by mass. The saving…
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Woke up this morning and it was raining gently. As AB laid in bed breathing softly, I suddenly thought of us taking shelter in an open-air market on a rainy morning… This photo was taken in September 2011 at Kam Fat food market, Mong Kok, Hong Kong with a Lomo LC-A using a roll of…
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One of the things I miss most about living in Paris is being a flâneur, strolling around the city, sometimes aimlessly, other times on the lookout for Space Invaders, and almost always with a camera in my bag. I took this photo while on vacation in Paris a few years ago. It was raining and we…
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Angelina Hue 