The American propaganda machine is operating at full stretch. They brought Jew-Boy Al Franken out of moth balls to host Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" recently. It was the usual two-pronged approach. An all-out attack on Trump, while simultaneously promoting the proxy war in Ukraine.
Jew Boy Blinken declared the other day that a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire "would violate the UN charter". They're terrified China might broker a peace deal.
The shit should really hit the fan next year. Can you imagine what the Presidential race is going to look like ?
ps...I give Obama a slight edge over Trump in acting & con-man skills.
Posed photos may be static, but when my mother visited China people wanted her to take their picture. And being my mother, she obliged. This was decades ago as you may have guessed when regular people didn't have cameras.
I do love these photos, the people and the bright colors, though in my own life I rarely took pictures of people, preferring dead trees on mountaintops.
Linh, do the people ever mind that you take their picture? So many of your pictures seem completely candid. How do you do it? I enjoy your pictures, and I usually open them up in new tabs so I can appreciate them.
I've gotten pretty good at sneaking photos or knowing what I can get away with. It's a requirement of street photography. The last time I annoyed anyone was over a year ago, so that's not bad at all, considering how much I shoot.
P.S. The main objective of street photography is to capture moments as if the photographer isn't even there, so there's no posing or smiling at the camera. Sometimes, though, passersby will ask to be photographed, so the challenge is to make these shots seem spontaneous anyway.
Wandering around Vientiane, Laos, I chanced upon a cafe with large photos. These, it turned out, were taken by the owner's husband, a South Korean. All the photos had people facing the camera, smiling. That's not street photography. Although they were taken with a very good camera, with the correct shutter speed, etc., the images were simply amateurish.
I agree. I don't like posed photography, for the most part. I want to see people doing what they naturally do, in a setting that tells, or is part of, a story. You do this well. I have a good camera but I have yet to learn how to properly use it technically speaking. Pretty sure I am lousy at being surreptitious also. Wife on the other hand, and her whole family, whenever there's a gathering, there's picture taking. What I never realized until her mother passed away last summer, was that part of the photo taking ritual was to ensure that a good photo would be available for the funeral, for the shrine, for the remembrance portfolio at the reception. (My in-laws are a Chinese family from Saigon.)
Thanks Linh, I was thinking, compared to purely (geo-)political commentators, you don't have to repeat yourself on and on using different words. Your daily life brings you inspiration, which in turn enables you to undertand better than most of us the troubles of the world.
Intelligence is like mosquitoes, always from the bottom up.
Divorce seem to have been globalized. In my parents' generation, it has rare. In my grandparents' generation, almost unheard of. Now most people I know, even young people, are divorced at least once. US, Latin America, Europe, all the same. I thought Asia was different, but I've read than in Japan today one third of marriages end in divorce. That seems low compared to the 50% in the US, however, what happens is that in Japan a lot of people are not even marrying at all, ever. If you don't marry, you can't divorce...
Linh
The American propaganda machine is operating at full stretch. They brought Jew-Boy Al Franken out of moth balls to host Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" recently. It was the usual two-pronged approach. An all-out attack on Trump, while simultaneously promoting the proxy war in Ukraine.
Jew Boy Blinken declared the other day that a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire "would violate the UN charter". They're terrified China might broker a peace deal.
The shit should really hit the fan next year. Can you imagine what the Presidential race is going to look like ?
ps...I give Obama a slight edge over Trump in acting & con-man skills.
Bill
Posed photos may be static, but when my mother visited China people wanted her to take their picture. And being my mother, she obliged. This was decades ago as you may have guessed when regular people didn't have cameras.
I do love these photos, the people and the bright colors, though in my own life I rarely took pictures of people, preferring dead trees on mountaintops.
Excellent as always, Linh!
And a very important point about being in charge of one’s own destiny, and what it means for the quality of one’s own life.
Linh, do the people ever mind that you take their picture? So many of your pictures seem completely candid. How do you do it? I enjoy your pictures, and I usually open them up in new tabs so I can appreciate them.
Hi Benedict Tiberius Cato,
I've gotten pretty good at sneaking photos or knowing what I can get away with. It's a requirement of street photography. The last time I annoyed anyone was over a year ago, so that's not bad at all, considering how much I shoot.
Linh
P.S. The main objective of street photography is to capture moments as if the photographer isn't even there, so there's no posing or smiling at the camera. Sometimes, though, passersby will ask to be photographed, so the challenge is to make these shots seem spontaneous anyway.
Wandering around Vientiane, Laos, I chanced upon a cafe with large photos. These, it turned out, were taken by the owner's husband, a South Korean. All the photos had people facing the camera, smiling. That's not street photography. Although they were taken with a very good camera, with the correct shutter speed, etc., the images were simply amateurish.
I agree. I don't like posed photography, for the most part. I want to see people doing what they naturally do, in a setting that tells, or is part of, a story. You do this well. I have a good camera but I have yet to learn how to properly use it technically speaking. Pretty sure I am lousy at being surreptitious also. Wife on the other hand, and her whole family, whenever there's a gathering, there's picture taking. What I never realized until her mother passed away last summer, was that part of the photo taking ritual was to ensure that a good photo would be available for the funeral, for the shrine, for the remembrance portfolio at the reception. (My in-laws are a Chinese family from Saigon.)
Hi Benedict Tiberius Cato,
Gontran De Poncins' From a Chinese City is an excellent book about Cho Lon or just Vietnam at peace:
https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-City-Heart-Peacetime-Vietnam/dp/1879434008
Linh
Yeah, and you captured the moment, being flipped off and possibly bonked on the head by an imitation of Orange Crush.
You could have been an "asset," as they like to say in my old profession.
So delightful to start my day with one of your posts. I really appreciate hearing about your travels. Thanks so much!
Thanks Linh, I was thinking, compared to purely (geo-)political commentators, you don't have to repeat yourself on and on using different words. Your daily life brings you inspiration, which in turn enables you to undertand better than most of us the troubles of the world.
Intelligence is like mosquitoes, always from the bottom up.
Lovely.
"So much for the stable Asian family."
Divorce seem to have been globalized. In my parents' generation, it has rare. In my grandparents' generation, almost unheard of. Now most people I know, even young people, are divorced at least once. US, Latin America, Europe, all the same. I thought Asia was different, but I've read than in Japan today one third of marriages end in divorce. That seems low compared to the 50% in the US, however, what happens is that in Japan a lot of people are not even marrying at all, ever. If you don't marry, you can't divorce...
I hope linh dinh will leave asia one day.