I will always choose savoury over sweet, spice over sugar. My ideal dessert is something like this traditional chocolate Catalan treat, because it includes salt and olive oil. I’ll eat – and I’ll enjoy – dessert when it comes at the end of a degustation menu and I’ll happily test out Terence’s chocolate experiments (like this … Read more
In last week’s Monday Memories post I mentioned that there were several other photos in my ‘finals’ folder that I had taken at the mass alms-giving that was Visakha Bucha Day. However, sometimes, when you have a specific layout for your photographs in mind, you can overlook other images that have just as much impact but didn’t … Read more
The much-maligned shopping mall makes sense in steamy Bangkok, especially during monsoon season – just as it does in the oppressive heat of Dubai. Whereas the gritty streets of both cities offer few opportunities to escape the elements, air-conditioned shopping centres provide a respite from the humidity and, in Bangkok’s case in particular at this … Read more
When there are 12,600 Buddhist monks from southern Thailand in one street of Bangkok at once, where, as a photographer, do you start trying to document the mass alms-giving that was Visakha Bucha Day? The answer, of course, is to not panic and keep it simple. Wide shot, mid shot, close-up. That’s what I was taught … Read more
Add a Thai cooking class at the Mandarin Oriental Cooking School in Bangkok to your Thailand itinerary if you’re like us and believe that discovering the food of a destination is a way into the heart of a place and learning to cook the cuisine is the route into its soul – via the stomach! … Read more