The Last Morning of 2009
What I woke up to on the last day of 2009
Well, 2010 is here. Whoopee. Hope you all didn’t make an ass of yourself over New Year’s weekend.
I had a great time myself! I spent the night of December 30th at my good buddy Tim’s apartment in Binh Thanh district of Saigon with the plan of waking up at the ass crack of dawn on Dec. 31st and getting some great dawn photos of the city from the roof of his building. His apartment building is 18 stories tall, and it the tallest building for a long, long ways, with nothing surrounding it but urban sprawl. I’d never been up on the roof for sunrise or sunset, but I figured it must be fantastic. I wasn’t disappointed.
I shot one roll of Fuji Velvia 100F and one roll of Kodak Elite Chrome so I could compare the results. Fuji thumped Kodak squarely on the nose, and I can assure you that once I shoot through the couple rolls of Kodak Elite that I have left, I’ll be sticking with Fuji slide film from here on out.
These shots look better the bigger you see them, so I decided that while I’m only going to show off 5 shots from this morning’s shoot, I would still load them as a gallery album so you all can see them a bit larger. Click here or on the photo above to see the series.
I’ve got lots more stuff from the weekend to upload – I tried to get it up sooner, but I couldn’t get my gallery app to browse my computer for content. I eventually figured out that the version of the app I’m using and Flash Player 10 don’t play nice together. Anyhow, problem solved now, and more coming soon. Happy New Year everybody! May you have 365 sunrises as nice as the last one for 2009 was for me.