The following day I split a tuk tuk (motorbike pulling a cart) to the main temples with a guy from Belgium. We spent the entire day running around taking pictures, by the end I was exhausted. My intention was to spend three days exploring the temples, but after hitting all of the highlights and battling the 95+ degree heat I am going to call Angkor Wat good for now. I wish I had my mac to touch some of these up, but I am sure I will have time for that come summer....
It breaks my heart that this photo is blurry. If anyone knows a trick to clean it up a bit I would love you forever! Probably one of my favorite photos of the trip!
Bayon - This was my favorite. I am in love with all the different faces. I was here for awhile. Everytime I wanted to walk away I got sucked into another new face. You might think they look all the same but in the moment they were worlds apart. Each their own person!
Men guarding the beginning of the temple. One side was demons the other angels. I think.
We stopped at a few others but I don't really have the patience right now to sort out through the notes I took and try and remember where they were....again, I am sure the task will be a thrill when I am job searching this summer, but now I move to the last temple we saw that day. It was the "tree temple" used in the Tombraider.
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I'm assuming you use photoshop? For the photo you love, try using the sharpening function. Better yet, if you can take photos in RAW format, that's best. Adobe Camera RAW (a program within Adobe Photoshop) gives you a lot more flexibility because unlike JPEGs which are compressed, the information in the photo is stored in layers which makes altering the photo a sinch and you don't lose quality or information each time you save. If you don't have Photoshop on your laptop but you may want to edit RAW photos when you get home, you may also consider using a RAW + JPEG format (if your camera has it). The only problem is that you use up twice the room on your cards because photos are saved twice (once as RAW and once as JPEG) but the benefit is that you can save the RAW one for later and use the JPEG one for now (RAW photos won't upload to Flickr or display on Blogger as the format isn't supported). If you don't have Photoshop, there is an open source program called GIMP that is free and does many of the same things (albeit, it's a lot harder to figure out). But if I were you, I'd just pick up a copy of Photoshop since you are afterall in Southeast Asia. It shouldn't be more than $10. ;)
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