I’ve almost recovered from the jet-lag, travel, and being back at work. I’ve spent a lazy day geo-tagging and uploading a bunch of underwater shots from the trip. I have a couple of blog posts I’m working on and hope to have them posted soon. Any comments on the shots are welcome.
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So here I am on my 3rd flight in less than 48 hours. For me Friday 29th January 2010 did not really exist. I left London with Claudine of PhotoTulip mid afternoon on Thursday and after a short stop in Doha we continued onto Jakarta. By the time we landed, we had crossed 7 time zones and I had no idea where I was or what day it was. So now after an overnight stop in Jakarta we are taking a 3 hour hop to Monado. All I managed to see of Jakarta was the airport, the hotel, and briefly the inside of my eyelids. Anyone who thinks flying to far flung places is in some way fun or exotic is clearly crazy. It’s not just the whole ignomany of airport security, or being crammed into a metal tube with a recycled atmosphere. Nor is it the sad bunch of fellow travellers who insist on loudly telling you their life stories. It is the entire experience. In our quest to make the world smaller we have stripped away the joy of travel and the excitement of getting to a new place. I hate air travel. I should be paid to do it, it is torture. I’m seriously thinking that I should cut down on the number of trips I make, but extend the length of the trip and start travelling by boat. I have a hankering for the golden age of steam I think. A few ports of call en-route and time to adjust to both the new timezones and new cultures. Of course the steam powered vessel will need to have free Internet access with great bandwith.
I’m hoping I can get some posts up to the blog whilst we are away and the Tulip and I looking forward to taking some great pictures above and below the waves. I have brought along the Subal housing for my EOS20d and have a new port for it so that I can try my hand at underwater macro photograpy. I am also hoping to shoot top-side video using the 7d, which sadly I do not have a housing for. Another new toy that I will be trying out on this trip is a Zoom H4N recorder. I had considered an external microphone for the 7d but have read some great things about the Zoom.
Despite the travel and losing a day somewhere I am looking forward to getting in some fantastic diving and spending time with all of my friends from the USA.
Perhaps they should just pop us into a little flight pod and wake us when we get there. Of course I am in a rush to get back to the UK after this trip as it it’ll only be another month until the iPad is released.
The snow is back and the traffic has stopped. Gonna be a long day.