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I had to come to Bangkok for a fortnight recently (I'm still here), and I left my 5D Mark III at home and brought my new Olympus EM5 along instead.
This is a fantastic trip to get aquainted with it, and a fantastic city for exploring and street shooting.

As well as the colour images below, I have a blog entry with a heap of b/w images and a quick "first impressions" review of the experience of street shooting with the EM5. Here is the Blog Entry (http://www.broughtonphoto.com.au/?p=1355)

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1. (left) Zooming through the back-streets in a tuk-tuk. 2. (right) Daily life.


3. (left) Day-dreaming on the bus ride home. 4. (right) Clothing alteration on the street.


5. (left) Fishmongers preparing for a fish delivery. 6. (right) Some inner-city shops/homes.


7. (left) After the daily afternoon downpour. 8. (right) A shopper's paradise.


9. Punters being lured into clubs on Soi Cowboy. 10. Go-go dancers in one of Bangkok's infamous red-light districts.

Brilliant work. A real treat. #1 is my fav.

[edit] I have been really impressed by what I have seen of the OM-D. This confirms that yet again. Looks like the pick to click.

These are wonderful.

Awesome photos. I really like the way that they hold together as a set, with consistent treatment despite the diversity of subjects and colours.

Seeing the photos on your blog adds a whole new layer. But I have to confess that, as good as the monochrome photos are, the set you posted here has me hooked on the colour. Very, very impressive body of work.

Thanks Don and Matt.

Matt, I agree with you about the b/w versus colour. I've been playing around with different treatments to try to somehow express some of those things a photo can't easily capture about a city such as the heat, humidity, pulse, sense of chaos, vibrance, and unmistakable south-east-Asian vibe of Bangkok. It's still a work in progress though.

oo.. and sorry Toad I didn't mean to miss you out! Thanks to you too!

I have to say that after loving the GF1, I never really fell in love with the GX1 when I bought it, which was a bit of a surprise to me. All that changed with the OM-D though, I'm seriously loving this little camera system.
I even splashed out on the tiny Olympus FL-300R external flash. It's not all that powerful, but the cool thing is that it can be a remote slave to the OM-D's internal flash with full TTL metering and control via camera menus (similar to Canon's E-TTL optical wireless system). So now I have a full-TTL wireless lighting system that requires just 2 AAA batteries and takes about as much bag-space as a mobile phone. I can take it everywhere for those "what if..." impromptu portrait moments. Simply amazing.

These look fantastic! I love your photos!