Chicks and furniture
V and I went for a wander through Georgetown today - and as we mooched around, poking our nose into shops, eating curry, stopping for a drink at a hostel - I completely fell in love with the place.
Photographically, at least.
Not that I didn’t fall in love with it on other levels - it’s just that it’s such a photogenic town.
The colours, the light, the architecture (a mixture of colonial and Chinese, delapidated and not), the signs… and of course the things which are simply unusual to our Western eyes: tiny shrines holding burning incense sticks, scooters with trays of eggs strapped to the back, bananas hanging in mid-air… I can’t wait to return with the SLR camera that B leant me and really go to town. Quite literally.
I’ve uploaded the photographs onto Flickr here - and added them to the start of the Penang set here.
Meanwhile, here are some of the choicest signs:
For S:
For J:
For my American friends:
And for everyone else:
February 20th, 2008 at 3.35am
Chicks and furniture. My kind of shop. Do you think you can sit on the furniture while you look at the chicks?
February 20th, 2008 at 3.37am
If these photos are an example of what you can do with a compact then I can’t wait to see the SLR results!
February 20th, 2008 at 11.31am
ha! thanks. it’s a film SLR so I would have to get them scanned in to share… but will try to do so. it really is a fantastic place to photograph.
‘Chicks and furniture’, disappointingly, seemed to focus much more heavily on furniture than chicks. although the sign worked in so far as it got two chicks to enter a furniture shop. perhaps that was the idea?
btw everyone - I’ve now put some descriptions on the photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreamann/sets/72157603815195198/detail/
February 20th, 2008 at 4.42pm
I’m still trying to work out the USP of this shop. Does it assume that, when out on a mission to furnish new home, chickens are as vital as a sofa? Or does it just have the same Marketing Manager as Free Flow Mini Skirts Bar and that the MM advised on the pulling power (sic) of babes in the selling pitch?