Blogging photographs from the west of Ireland and beyond

Asia

Ring Those Bells


Monkey bridge under the mountains


On the road to work in Kuala Lumpur

Malaysian Street


Thai Beach Bar


Wildness Confined

Caged Monkey


Buddha Bejewelled

Buddha At The Grand Palace


Sunlight Falling on an Ancient Angkor Wall

Ancient Wall


A Red Eyed Cambodian Dragonfly

Cambodian Dragonfly


Sukumvit Road Pimp


Kitsch at the scavenger market in Kuala Lumpur


Scorched Earth in Laos


Hotel room view of the night market


Scavenged Rubbish Market in Kuala Lumpur(as well as webdesign frustrations)

As well as today’s picture I’d like to apologise to anybody who has had trouble accessing my site over the last couple of days. I ventured away from wordpress.com onto an Irish hosting site called letshost.ie for the last 2 days in the hope of creating my own website that I could customise to my own liking rather than relying on other people’s designs like I must do here all the time. Unfortunately, this was one hell of a frustrating experience due to letshost’s many deficencies in providing a reliable service to a web designing novice such as myself, as well as their ineptness in communicating with their clients in a sufficently speedy fashion. I’ve just spend 2 days banging my head against the wall questioning my own abilities to put up a basic website, only to find out that letshost were actually the ones in error by inadvertdly blocking my attempts to upload my webdesigns and constantly locking me out of my client area and web design panel on their site. In fairness to letshost.ie they have provided me with a refund very quickly(the second time that they’ve had to do so with me), but that’s not going to get back the last 48 hours of utter frustration(plus 3 weeks of tinkering) that have left me back at square one again trying to select a decent hosting service yet again, and still nowhere closer to having my own proper photography website. I think that I’ll just go with godaddy.com as they are half the price that I was paying with letshost.ie anyway, but its sure does seem a shame that it’s so hard to support an Irish company all the same. If anyone has any experience with any other webhosting services, either good or ill, then please let me know so I can make a more informed decision next time.

For now, back to the photography. It sure is a hell of a lot more fun than trying to design webpages.


Island Beachcomber


Songkran, Vang Vien, Laos


Beach Brolly


Vientiane Sax Player


Friends crossing the river in Laos


Eye of the reptile


Cattle on a mountainside road through Laos


tuk tuk driver


Vientiane Garbage Man


Red Sun over the River Mekong in Laos


Fire Dancers, Koh Samui