Fiji time

I think there is no place i´ve been in the last years where i took the amount of pictures like i did in Fiji. Almost none. I´ll use more or less all of them in the following text. Later, my couchhost in L.A. said that a good tourist always has his camera with him. It seems like, i have turned into a very bad one.  I ask myself if i´m still spoiled of too much travelling? While going through the very small folder of the group of islands i realise that, especially in Fiji, i actually was the perfect tourist. 

Guinea pig gambling

There are these rare moments, when you are on the way back to you hostel, your camera batterie is empty and you forgot to bring a spare one. Doesn´t matter, you´re done and it´s not far away. You don´t expect anything to happen. A step around a corner and you realise that you were wrong. "Maybe a few seconds." Once more, you turn your camera on. If the following red blinking light would have a sound effect, the lovely concert for strings from the Pyscho shower scene would fit quite well. The settings should still be allright. You have to hurry. You hit the button. Two short klicks from the multishot setting and that´s it, no response anymore. - I have very mixed feelings about this moments.

Beasts of the eastern wild: #01 The Lizard

Lizards are awsome. All of them. Some of them look like dinosaurs, but my favourites are the smaller house lizards from India and South east asia. Nothinger better than a lizard which hunts for mosquitos in the beach hut. They are usefull but not as pictureesque as the bigger species. As bigger as better. I´m still dreaming of going to kommodo to see the huge varanids one day and have a few shootings with them, but for now this one has to do it. A random lizard from Aserbaidschan. He was quite big and so i chased him while i visited some, also random, cavepaintings south of Baku. He was not really happy about it and so he looked a bit supicious before he was heading off to hide in a narrow rock crevice.