http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress work in progress Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:56:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we flew closer to Yangon, we could see a green rice paddies glimmering in the sun, like a fertile mirror. Here we were, no turning back now, our Myanmar adventure had begun. I first thought of visiting the country when Laxman announced, almost a year earlier, that he was now ... http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2008/03/05/28-days-in-burma/ [gallery=2] http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2008/03/05/yangon-to-hsipo/ [gallery=3] http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2008/03/05/shan-state/ [gallery=5] http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2008/03/05/burma-bagan-and-river-irrawady/ [gallery=6] http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2007/06/11/pinhole-photos/ For years I'd wanted to try out pinhole photography. The opportunity came whilst I was living in the one place for a few weeks: at the foot of sacred mountain Arunachala, in Tamil Nadu, South India (More at a later date about that). The light was great, and I had lots ... http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2007/06/10/pinhole-photography-2/ Starting the project took a bit of perseverance; where would I find the necessary chemicals and paper? I started by asking the local 'photo shops', the processing outlets where people take their films to be developed and printed. Photography is a big thing here, mostly for wedding and family pictures, ... http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2007/06/09/getting-the-stuff/ Setting up was easier than finding the materials. I bought some plastic trays, a red light bulb, and darkened the second bathroom - to Westerners, a cubicle with a squat toilet, a wall tap and a shower. The toilet functions as drain for all three. There was a full door that ... http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2007/06/08/setting-up-the-dark-room-2/ My first camera was a Cadbury chocolate tin, the old type with a tin lid, which you find in India. I made the hole in the bottom, using a darning needle. The paper was taped to the lid. I couldn't wait to test it, so I put paper straight in there, ... http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2007/06/07/first-attempts/ [Gallery=8] The first camera I made was based on one of the designs I saw on the Internet. I used a Cadbury chocolate tin, which in India still have the tight fitting tin lid. It worked fine, except that once I started getting results, I realised the hole I'd made was ... http://www.roughideas.co.uk/wordpress/2007/06/05/making-pinhole-cameras/