In the jungle, one way to charge the camera, satellite phone or walkie-talkie batteries is via the red box seen here. The inverter converts the vehicle’s 12 V to 110/240 V. Alternatively, one can also use solar chargers or a portable generator.
This Toyota Land Cruiser Series 79 belongs to Team Azimut from Venezuela and is christened Amazonas. The 4×4 arrived in a shipping container via Australia. Incidentally, petrol is the cheapest in the world in Venezuela at USD 0.02 (6 sen) per litre.
Did the phone swallow his coin or did his girlfriend hang up on him? This has got to be the worst case of phone rage ever. Saw this in a small town and I really don’t know what happened. A big puddle of water on the ground gives clue that the fire brigade was summoned. This picture was taken sometime ago. With the proliferation of mobile phones, the pay phone is now almost extinct in Malaysia.
What a send off. Farewell to an old friend.
Found this pic I took in 2003 with my first digital compact camera; the 3.3 Mega Pixels Canon G1. It was a shop in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. The 30-minute photo finisher and Kodak. They are now both gone. The analog Photo Shop used to hand-colour black and white prints with brushes, swabs and the fingers. It was an art form.
