Ho Chi Minh City Rooftop 
Hanoi Rooftop
All words and images © Matthew Venables 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Wednesday, April 6: 2011
It took me a while to get to these pictures, the frames released what seems like way back in January, holiday in Vietnam time. For the majority of the month I spent having a look around the country it was overcast, light flat and uninteresting, and I made these panaoramas with a view to having a mate n colleague paint and draw all over them as part of some stuff we like to muck around with. I held low to no hope of these as `Photographs', being intended instead as a platform from which Paul could leap any which way he felt it.
But theres' a thing with working digital that happens often enough where something, having not earlier been self evident, emerges that you start to like. Starting to process these things, stitch em together into a panorama, crop, work the colours, I reflect back to somewhere in my mid-teen days having a book on photography cross my path...remembering being horrified that people would actually use filters to change how light entered lens, the horror, the unreality!...and now a multitude of processes deep in these massive scale files, push pull and nudging stuff round till you think it sits right, it's just funny how that feeling, when you start to get a little fond for an image, happens sometimes not in an instant , like it might with film, with it's alchemical processes, but aways further down the line.
If you click the pic, it should be able to be viewed a bit bigger.
