Although we’d been in Bangkok many times before I planned a stopover here in case we run into delays on the way up, potentially jeopardising our onward air travel. And because it’s going to be our last time in a familiar big city before we venture into new territory.
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Surat Thani, Thailand
We chose Surat Thani for a quick stopover because I’d always seen it on the map and liked the name, and because it’s a popular gateway city for onward travel to several popular Thai islands. Ironically we didn’t venture into the city centre, staying instead in Phunphin – a westerly suburb where the railway station is located.
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Penang, Malaysia
I’ve always wanted to visit Penang, and after a couple of days in smoggy KL we were both ready for a breath of fresh air. This time we did manage to travel by train, and enjoyed a pleasant journey on Malaysia’s rapidly improving railway network.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
After a few days in Singapore we intended to take the train north, but in the end it was much easier to jump on a coach for the journey to Kuala Lumpur. One thing we hadn’t bargained with when making this decision was the traffic, so perhaps the train would have been better after all.
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Singapore
Singapore is our entry- and exit-point to SE Asia, and we’re taking a couple of days to get over the jet-lag and explore this wonderful city some more before making our way slowly north.
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London, UK
The first instalment of our 2026 amble around South East Asia, starting with a short hop across the Irish Sea to London in preparation for the longer hop down to Singapore.
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Picked up a classic Lamborghini today
All right, all right, it’s not a supercar and it’s not mine, I was just helping a friend collect it from the docks in Ramsey. But it is a real Lambo, and since it was a bright sunny day I decided to bring along the X-T3 and shoot a few snaps in Classic Chrome and Velvia, two colour profiles based on film which would have been popular when this little crawler rolled off the production line in Bologna.
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S.T. Pasages Shipwreck, Jurby
The Manx coastline is dotted with many interesting wrecks, including the Steam Trawler Pasages. Originally built in 1917 for the Canadian Navy in Toronto, she made her way to the UK in the 1920s and was converted to a fishing trawler. In 1931 she ran aground in foul weather near Jurby, where she’s been quietly rusting ever since.
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Using Camera Colour Profiles in Lightroom
Do you want to use Fujifilm’s film simulations in Lightroom, but struggle creating your own colour profiles? I did until now, and have just found out something that just about everybody seems to know: those film simulations are right there, in the Profile Browser. In this very short piece I’ll show you where to look, and how you can configure Lightroom to apply a preset automatically.
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Three Months with Fujifilm X-T3
In the never-ending quest to try something new, I’m revisiting one of the brands which started me out in digital photography at the turn of the millennium: Fujifilm. This post contains a few thoughts and impressions of Fuji’s X-T3 mirrorless camera, written from the point of view of a long-term Nikon full-frame and Olympus Micro Four Thirds shooter.