Welcome to The Wednesday Photo – a new picture each week highlighting something of interest in Thailand. Click on the picture to see a larger version.
Hmong Sausage Vendor
Hmong woman grilling sausage
The other day I was musing on the rise of digital cameras leading to the nearly total eclipse of film cameras and waxing a bit nostalgic. As recently as 2003 Kasma and I were still shooting slides and spending several hundred dollars a year on slide film, developing and printing pictures. Now we’re 100% digital. Some days I fantasize about digitizing at least some of the approximately 20,000 slides we have. One of these days. Perhaps.
In honor of those days gone past, here’s a picture taken as a slide and then scanned. It shows a subject dear to my heart: sour sausage. The sausage is being grilled at a Hmong New Year’s celebration in 2003 in a Hmong village north of Chiang Mai. The camera was a Nikon N80, long may it rest in peace!
Here’s another Sausage Vendor (in Ayuthaya).
