Concrete crap

With only a few shots remaining on the film residing within my Leica I, I head off to Nong Nuch this morning to finish the roll. Along for the ride is the E-M1 with the 50mm F2 Summarit from the Leica III stuck on the front.

The garden part of Nong Nuch continues to be subsumed under a plethora of concrete crap; the latest casualty being the area containing water lilies which used to offer attractive photo opportunities with green backgrounds. Now it is hard to even move in the area due to the flock of fucking flamingos that have taken over.

Another area now features zombie koalas:

And there are unconvincing elephants everywhere:

It’s all rather sad; but there were enough subjects to finish the film, and the Summarit on the Olympus did well for is age, even when having to shoot into the sun.

Finished off with coffee in the aircon area where the owner stores his increasingly impressive collection of cars. His extensive use of concrete may be regrettable; but at least he spends his profits on something worthwhile (defined as “what I would spend my money on if I were rich”).

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2015-05-29 | subroto mukerji says

BTW, that ain’t an elephant: that’s a woolly mammoth. They petered out at the end of the last Ice Age (sound familiar?) around 16,000 years ago. They dig well preserved specimens (dead, of course) out of the Siberian permafrost every now and then… Excellent results from the grand old Summarit. Maybe they’ll dig them out of the permafrost some day. too, in the distant future, after the next Ice Age has passed.

2015-05-29 | Spike says

I stand corrected.

2015-05-31 | Andrew says

those aren’t just any old flamingos - those are the very rare “Re-bar Flamingo " - last seen at the site of a condo development somewhere in Thailand - you can tell their age by how brown their legs become - the darker, the older…

2015-06-01 | Grant says

Yes, and are they the common-or-garden low tensile 3311 re-bar flamingos or their far scarcer cousins the high tensile 5311 re-bar variety?

2015-06-01 | Andrew says

neither - they are the past-tensile 1987 rebar from Sukhumvit Rd in Bangkok…..