Alright, alright, it’s taken a long time, I know. And I’m sorry! Really! The reason why I took so long to update this blog is that I had so much other stuff to do (ser­i­ously) that I only man­aged to fin­ish post-​processing the pho­tos from our big trip today, almost 3 weeks after we got back!

Any­way, without fur­ther ado, let’s get back to busi­ness. This photo I took secretly in/​on a “sawngthaew” (lit­er­ally “two rows”), one of the main forms of trans­port­a­tion in Laos. These are basic­ally just a pick-​up truck with two benches on the back and a roof over them, like so.

The funny thing about them is that they trans­port any­thing. Any­thing. [Note for example the duck on the floor]. And you wouldn’t believe how much quant­ity of any­thing. If you think it’s full, it’s not. How­ever, even if it’s cramped, it’s a cheap way to get around and has a cer­tain adven­tur­ous fla­vour to it.

Pho­to­graph­ic­ally, I used my wide angle for this shot to cap­ture as much as pos­sible of the con­fined space. Since I took the photo secretly, and it was a rather chal­len­ging light­ing situ­ation, I had set the cam­era to auto­matic brack­et­ing, mak­ing it take 5 pic­tures in quick suc­ces­sion at dif­fer­ent expos­ures, so that I could then choose the best exposed one.