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Photography from south-east Asia by Jon Sanwell

Posts from the ‘vietnam’ category

A sunny interlude (potw #34)

It’s been a very wet week – even when it wasn’t raining, it felt like it was about to start – but I found a little time during a sunny interlude late on Tuesday afternoon to take a walk round the block and shoot a few pictures.

Later today I’m heading up to Dalat for a week of mountain air and cooler temperatures.  I plan to spend the week walking, reading, napping and taking photographs, probably black and white photographs, as that’s what’s interesting me at the moment.

Up

I really must remember to look up more often.


Incense coils suspended from the ceiling of Thien Hau pagoda


Guitars for sale in District 3

Uncle Ho watches over the Post Office in central Saigon

Neighbourhood #3

This is the third and – for now at least – final part of my Neighbourhood series. Over the last couple of months, I’ve spent a lot of time – though less than I would like – wandering the streets near where I live in Saigon, hoping to capture something of the character of the people and places I see every day.

Inside outside, again (potw #32)

I was very flattered earlier this week to have one of my pictures included in this post on street photography on the WordPress.com News blog.  There are some great sites included in the post – I particularly like 365 from the archive and A walk with my camera, but they’re all well worth a look.  It’s brought a lot of new followers to this site, so welcome everyone, and a big thnk you to the nice people at WordPress for featuring my picture.

All the pictures in the street photography post, including mine, are in black and white. I’ve been thinking recently about shooting more black and white pictures but, like a small child, I’m easily distracted by bright and shiny things and tend to default to colour pictures. Today’s picture is a case in point. I think it looks good in black and white – you’ll have to take my word for it – but I’ve opted to post the colour version, because the pink of her top and the green of the gates seem to complement each other. This was taken in Cholon, Saigon’s Chinatown, in between rain showers this afternoon.

Neighbourhood #2

More pictures from my neighbourhood, taken over the last couple of months. I’m really lucky that so much of Vietnamese life is lived out of doors, and that so many Vietnamese people are happy for an awkward, foolish-looking foreigner to take pictures of them.

Neighbourhood #1

Over the last few weeks, I set myself the task of photographing life on the streets near where I live in Saigon. These shots were all taken within walking distance of my flat, where districts 1, 3 and Phu Nhuan meet. I hope that this post gives you some idea of what it’s like to live in this neighbourhood.