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My digital camera's default image size ratio is 2:3, and my recent order of enlargements from qoop.com was in that ratio, 20x30. It was difficult to find cheap poster frames in that size, which surprised me because on my walls are 4 of those, about 15 years old, which I used to be able to easily find in any place which sold picture frames. I think the ones I have came from Target or Walgreen's.

During the past few days I've been looking for those, with no luck.
Bed Bath & Beyond
Walgreen
Target
Walmart
Aaron's Art Supply & Framing
Office Max/Depot
Rite Aid

I found one model online at Ritz Camera and ordered enough to frame the prints I've ordered, but they only had black molding, I'd prefer clear (silver or white would also be better). So much for 20x30.

Now I'm moving on to my less spectacular photos, which I'm thinking of finding a coffee shop or similar venue to hang them in. I'm thinking 16x24 for those. Or maybe 12x18.

So I'm looking online, and finding the sizes I was used to for photo enlargement paper. 4x5, 8x10, 11x14, and am wondering if my digital frame ratio is different from 35mm.

Nope. All those years in the darkroom I apparently got used to cropping to the point where I never noticed a full frame was 8x12 not 8x10. 11x16.5 not 11x14. And so on.

Where did the 2:2.5 print ratio come from? Casting my mind back to the large format Speed Graphic single-plate camera we used for the college yearbook, those negatives were 4x5 and 8x10. Hasselblad also had 4x5 backs for their press cameras. 120 film was close enough to not make much difference.

But 2:3 ratio photography has been mainstream for almost 50 years. You would think by now it would be commonplace to find frames in that ratio. Used to be, I wonder what happened?

Fiunally getting around to uploading more photos from my trip. Just added a few from after the wedding festivities, on my trip from Hove to Penzance - got as far as just a little beyond Portsmouth in this set.

Done posting my Asia photos, so now I'm putting up some of the more artistic shots from my Nikon collection. It's kind of random order to you, alphabetical by folder name to me. This bunch are all macro photography of flowers in Aptos' seaside park.

Chengdu Airport - I've uploaded some of my photos from Sechuan, where I traveled on business during my Thailand vacation. Much photo goodness on Flickr

Lower res versions of this have been posted before, but today's Flickr goodness is high-q versions of some batiks.

I've made my Thailand photos into a set on Flickr, because I'm letting the folks at work experiment with another set of photos I took when we moved to our new location. We have a product under development which could allow our customers to see their Flickr photos on their TV sets. I've helped them iron out most of the missing technical details, but they still need to get Yahoo's buy-in. Since our founder is now a Yahooligan, it may happen.

I'm done posting my Thai people and scenery, and I've started adding the best close-ups of batiks I bought there. Will also put in embroidery and sapphires.

Then I'll post any China photos I think would pass muster on NikonStunningGallery. And will fake it from there.

In the park across the street from the grand palace. Another 6 photos on fllickr

More Flickr photos. I can't remember her name, but I do remember I was staying in a hotel on Soi 19, a quick walk from Soi Cowboy, one of the lesser known bar alleys in Bangkok. She was luring customers into her bar, I decided to see if she wanted to come back to the hotel with me. Which she did. But all she did was pose in front of the curtains, and help herself to most of the munchies and a couple of drinks from the mini-bar. Somehow the bangle on her right wrist ended up on the floor, which I didn't notice until my girlfriend Noi came over later that night. I managed to pick it up and put it in my pocket before Noi saw it, and it's sitting on my desk as I write this.

Suzie Wong is Thai slang for any bar girl, from the old American film The World of Suzie Wong starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan.

More photos on Flickr - this one is dear to me not for the green or the beauty or the perspective, but for a more selfish reason. My second year in the Peace Corps, 1976-77, my job was to make slide-tape shows to teach rubber tree smallholders (owners of small plantations) how to grow other crops between the rows of juvenile rubber trees while they waited out the 7 years for the rubber trees to start to produce.

More than that, Malaysia had just developed a new strain which would produce 10 times as much as what was currently being harvested. The Thai government was giving away free seedlings to any farmer who would commit to digging up 1/8 of his plantation per year, and re-plant their entire holding with the new strain over an 8-year period. So they would have some cash coming in, we were teaching them inter-cropping, planting other crops in the spaces between the trees. Rubber trees have the be grown far apart so their big canopies don't collide when they are mature.

We would go to provincial fairs and play the slide shows for anyone who was interested. My boss was an advertising genius - we set up a TV and a videotape player and started our presentation by playing the 15-round Ali heavyweight fight. That would gather a crowd - Thais are enormous boxing fans - and at the end of each round we would play a couple of minutes of the slide show.

I guess it worked, because 30 years later, here's a scene which could have been right out of my photo set.

Another six on Flickr. This fellow survived the tsunami, and now works in a small roadside open-air restaurant a few feet from the ocean near Kao Lak, PanNga province, southern Thailand.

We ordered shellfish, he went into to water to get them for us.