Well it is almost December and within a few short weeks it will be 2010 so I guess it is time to update my Personal Photo Tour Services and plan for the New Year. George Mann – Personal Photo Tour & Photography Services The personal photo tour business has been very poor this year (2009), [...]
Just a little over five years ago I joined a small group of Thai journalists on a tour of the Nikon Factory, just outside of Bangkok, Thailand. Little did Nikon realize that this story would get international coverage on the internet and give a rare glimpse of their manufacturing process to Nikon fans around the [...]
Nov. 27, 2008 – photo © George Mann – Hand clappers at Suvarnabhumi protest. Whenever the PAD want to make a point, cheer, applaud, or generally want to make noise, they use plastic hand clappers. They are their weapon of choice in this political struggle. When they were cheering a popular PAD speaker, they were [...]
photo: © George Mann Nikon photographers around the world need to dig a little deeper to keep the valued employees of Nikon Thailand on the payroll. All the Nikon Digital SLR cameras (and most Nikkor DX lenses) except the highest end Nikon D3 model are currently manufactured in Thailand. It makes sense that these high [...]
This image was taken in Sattahip, Thailand on November 12, 2008. Nikon D300, 55-200mm Nikon VR lens, at 2500 ISO. Loy Krathong is held on the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar. In the western calendar this usually falls in November.
