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TRAVELS: OFT-BANGKOK EXCURSION

Checking out the controlled chaos of the Maeklong Railway Market and taking in the sublimely rustic Damnoen Saduak Floating Market - two attractions in the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand .

THYPOCH SIMERA 28MM F/1.4 VM

Wide open at f/1.4, the lens performs exceptionally well in low light and offers enough subject separation for environmental portraits. It won't replace a dedicated portrait lens, the fast aperture is genuinely useful.

VISUAL STORIES: IPOH'S CONCUBINE LANE

Mistresses are absent, but moments are not. Concubine Lane offers itself generously to the observant eye—layers of time, fleeting gestures, the quiet collision between memory and modernity.

The beauty in the everyday and the ordinary. Perspectives with no context to create the aesthetics as imagined. Each photograph tells a story as we see the world.

★★★★★