wel­come

march 2011

and again. still hav­ing some teething trou­bles with the new word­press upgrade, which means you’re likely to see some strange behav­iour on the site from time to time. wish i could some­how com­bine the sim­plic­ity of tum­blr’s ‘bloggin-for-the-rest-of-us’ approach, (where you can see my snap­shots and imbe­cile com­ments about life) with the pow­er­ful fea­tures that word­press offers.

oth­er­wise we’re pretty much in busi­ness again. if you’re run­ning word­press on your site, i would be very wary of just upgrad­ing, make damned sure your con­nec­tion is reli­able, and always back up your data­base first. if you do use word­press’s auto-upgrade fea­ture, bear in mind that you may have to do a man­ual install any­way. i’m just saying.

just a few words about the site as it is. since the word­press upgrade, the ‘fea­tured images’ on each page are bro­ken, which leaves the posts only with the gal­leries, and no fea­tured images for now. i’m hop­ing to get this fixed before long, but it might mean chang­ing the whole look of the site.

24 july: name change

time for a name change–  the ‘justin imidge’ thing was get­ting a bit old i thought — but it’s the same web­site — same me — i’ve been upload­ing a lot so do explore, and do return. com­ments are still welcome.

the new name

19th june: tech­ni­cal note:

after a cou­ple of glitches, every­thing is back to nor­mal after the wor­press upgrade. always trau­matic, the word­press upgrade.

june: just got back from bali , des­per­ately try­ing to find the time to sort through over 1,000 images from the indone­sian island. in the mean­time, do check out some pic­tures from last november’s visit to a japan­ese onsen in kyushu, here

april: your intre­pid host has been lin­ger­ing indoors, despite the long-last and long longed-for improve­ment in the weather. unfor­tu­nately he is feel­ing a lit­tle less than intre­pid of late hav­ing been nurs­ing a strained ankle, which pre­vents him from stray­ing very far. this is unfor­tu­nate indeed, com­ing closely after pur­chas­ing a new tiny lumix lx3 which slith­ers into the pocket in the most grat­i­fy­ingly unob­tru­sive way.

the new pic­ture at the top, inci­den­tally, was taken on an olym­pus xa, a pic­ture which sat hap­pily in my pocket for many years, until i left it in a small bar in tokyo. (the blues bar it was called, if mem­ory serves, which, let’s face it, prob­a­bly doesn’t)

march: grad­u­ally increas­ing tem­per­a­tures encour­age me to believe that spring, at long last, is now on the way. i will be ven­tur­ing forth a great deal more in the com­ing weeks, as well as antic­i­pat­ing my forth­com­ing lazy hol­i­day in bali. what bet­ter way to cel­e­brate the com­ing of spring than to new a new cam­era. i’ve always wanted a high qual­ity pocket dig­i­tal, and the one i just ordered from ama­zon is a stun­ner. i should be show­ing you some results by the end of next week.

look out for a series of pages of images from khmer remains taken in and around siem reap, cam­bo­dia, on a trip there in 2009.

feb­ru­ary: win­ter seems to be last­ing for­ever here in eng­land. not much incen­tive to pick up my cam­era and go flanéing here in lon­don at the moment.

so six pages of pic­tures from the amansara hotel in siem reap, cam­bo­dia, to warm things up.  this is an unashamedly lux­u­ri­ous base for tourists explor­ing the khmer tem­ples of siem reap, includ­ing  angkor wat, angkor tom, and the sur­round­ing area. the hotel, owned by the aman group a resort chain which mar­kets itself on the basis of sim­plic­ity, inti­macy, and an under­stated lux­ury with­out osten­ta­tion. nice if you can afford it.

pic­tures from the tem­ples and ruins of angkor wat com­ing in due course.

o, and look out for updates to the zen gar­dens of kyoto. appo­sitely rainy, in november.

justin (ken, really)