Digital View Finder

Sign up and once you’re done, then you are ready to do simple editing techniques without the purchasing the packaged software for advance revisions. What you can expect when you sign up are the tools which are more likely similar in photobucket. Please don’t get me wrong. Not all of my photos here are enhanced. Most of the time I use Photoshop to create the watermark image for copyright purposes.

To continue, Photoshop Express allows you to do the 1.) basics (like cropping, rotate, red-eye removal), 2.) tuning (i.e. adjust white balance and sharpness), 3.) apply effects (such as turning photos into black & white or pop color).

Adobe Photoshop Express is a free site where members can upload images and edit them. Try using it now and tell me what can you say about it.

I am currently experimenting scrapbook softwares that would fit my preference of designs and user friendly menus for a dummy like me. This one was made out of Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 3.0. It got several templates to choose from not only for scrapbooks but also for cards, cd labels, shirt designs and more. Scrap wise, this software is not my type due to its limited embellishments. I really thought it has huge variety of designs as it eats up 2 GB of my disk space upon installation. Well, overall I’ll rate it for 3 stars.

I took this photo last year. It was right after I submitted my photo assignment for Siroy project on “buildings” theme. Around November 2007, in time of the Loy Krathong feast here in Thailand. Significantly with that full moon showing on top of the images of the buildings. For Thais it marks the end of the rainy season, anticipating December and January’s cold climate.

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Photo taken: Bangkok

I saw this little girl in our church that day. She got 3 flowers from the altar after the mass and ran around with other playmates who were carrying flowers as well. I called her attention and asked if she could stop for a second so I can take a picture.

My grin wasn’t just ordinary upon noticing her natural pose and with a model-like expression. I immediately showed it to her mom and dad and both praised their daughter’s photogenic character.

After uploading the file to my external drive, I sent a copy to her mom’s email. I know it is as important for parents to capture their child’s personal journey that will be treasured forever. Images are powerful, timeless and beautiful.

AIT or Asian Institute of Technology is a post-graduate institute located north of Bangkok. If you are planning to go here for a workshop/conference, study or simply visit a family/friend you can find a detailed instruction on how to go to AIT below.

Suvarnabhumi International Airport

The trip to or from Suvarnabhumi International Airport takes at least an hour, and the cost of transportation is substantially higher than the short trip from Bangkok’s old Don Muang International Airport. Upon arrival at the main gate of AIT, guests can inform the guard where to go so they can show the way or accompany the taxi driver.

Below is the information about the arrival trip from the airport. As many taxi and limousine drivers will be unfamiliar with AIT’s location, maps in Thai and in English are available to print and hand to the driver.

Taxi services

Public taxi service is available at the ground level of Suvarnabhumi International Airport, below the terminal building itself.

Tell the taxi driver you would like to go to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) beside Thammasat University Rangsit. Not all drivers on queue at the transportation center may easily recognize AIT but then when you mention Thammasat Rangsit, they can recognize your direction.

A taxi meter flag down is at 35 baht and adds up 1 baht for every 2 kilometers. In the airport taxi counter they normally ask for the fixed price of 600 Baht going to AIT. This price is already fair enough.  It is widely practiced that when a taxi passes through an expressway or motorway, the passenger carries the toll expense. Tolls between the airport and AIT total are 105 baht.

Same applies when you want to go to the International Airport.  You just have to dial 6300 or 6000 to get a taxi and immediately they will ask for 600 Baht fixed price to bring you to Suvarnabhumi excluding toll fees.

Limousine services

Passengers should contact limousine / car rental counters located at the Arrival Hall, level 2 of the Suvarnabhumi International Airport passenger terminal building to get the service. Providers will call a limousine to pick up the passenger at limousine parking lots in front of the passenger terminal building.

Airport limousines drivers are usually trained certified and know the road and traffic. A limousine service from Suvarnabhumi International Airport to AIT will cost approximately 1,500 baht inclusive of toll way or motorway fees.

Do you also feel eerie when you are in sacred places? Or perhaps rejuvenated.

There’s a certain force that attracts people either by curiosity or solitude as you look at the temples. Everytime I visit ruins or heavily worshiped stupas, I learn to set aside my true belief. Instead respect and common longing for peace are what matters most at the moment.

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Photo take: Ayuttaya Province, Thailand
–A little revision has been made to create a canvass like effect.

People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

—Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations

When we were young…

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

What about the mist that reminds me of? Oh, I remember. It was the childhood friend and lover of Pilar that said, she is the “Mist”—referring to the Virgin Mary.

Now the darkness and the mist completely enveloped us. I began to imagine I was immersed in water, in the maternal womb— where time and thought do not exist. –Paulo Coelho

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Photo taken: AIT
Note: that tiny speck of light is not a dirt from my viewfinder it’s actually the light coming from a lamp post at a distance.

Usual travels to Bangkok may seem a bit special if meetings are held in buffet restaurants like Sizzlers. Perfectly nutritious servings and presentable spreads for my photo collection here in Dviewfinder. I tend to brace my stomach before coming in to the place so I make sure I have less fluid intake before the meal starts.  On top of it, Sizzler offers a very reasonable price for only a hundred and thirty Baht for the buffet salad per person excluding the drinks.