It’s my first time to be at Kirirom together with my husband Nestle, he came with me because he’s after the Chambok waterfalls which is up in the mountain, but sadly, we didn’t go there as the trails are quite dangerous. In the resort, you can do quite a few things – visit the mini-zoo, ride the ponies, do the rope slide (which scared the hell out of me!), biking, swimming, kayaking, and enjoying nature. The place is perfect for families who wants to escape the busy life in the city. There are many cottages where you can relax and do some BBQ. The resort also have rooms rooms for ren just in case you want to spend more time with your love ones.

My students are all game to try the activities they have and we really had a great time bonding together, plus they’re all nice and quiet during the trip, no one is a pain in butt all through our journey. Most of them spent their time biking around while me, Neath, Dara, Rithy, David, and Him went to try the rope slide. I was so amazed with the little kids who did the slide first, I mean they’re way smaller than me and all of them were not scared to jump off the base. While when it’s my turn, they had trouble sending me off because I don’t wanna let go, hahaha! My knees were all shaking and I could feel my heart beating fast, as if it’s going to jump first out of my chest, geez! I will admit that I am afraid of heights and after that jump I swear that I will never do it again

Rithy

Neath

David

Dara

Teacher Joyce

The short field trip brought me and my students closer together and we are looking forward for more activities like this. To those who’d like to come to Kirirom, it is advisable to rent a car to make your travel easier. You can book it to any local travel agencies here in the Penh. It’s been a long day…I hope all the teachers had a good time with their youngsters. I’m out to sleep now

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Time flies so fast that the little girl which I used to carry in my arms is now a grown up. Looking at her makes me feel proud and somehow a bit scared on the things which are to come. Yet, I believe that Andrea will be a good person when she matures.

Baby Andrea, continue all your kind deeds, mommy is very happy with all your achievements, and though I get mad at you some times, that doesn’t mean that I don’t love you, it’s only a matter of disciplining when times get rough with you. I love you baby!

best with mayo dip! yummy!

Photos are taken last January 31, 2010 by Nestle Poell

Taken last September 18, 2009 at Udong Temple.

I took the photo while he did the post processing. I noticed that IR or infrared photography is quite tedious especially when you are not experienced in post processing. Watching him makes me sleepy as he spend hours in retouching just to get the right colours for the photo. I even heard him complain about Nikon D90′s stubbornness in terms of IR. Compared with D40, D50 and D70 – D90 is not as flexible and permissive as them. The blocking mechanism of D90 is very strong that even you use filters, it’s still unable to capture the perfect ‘red‘ in IR photography and due to this reason, post processing will be your last resort to make the photo appealing.

I am amazed with IR photography these days. The photos are extremely beautiful and the effect gives the scene a different outlook which makes it more special. Plus the fact that the greens in the photos could turn out white as snow giving a dramatic change compare to an ordinary coloured shot.

I am planning to visit Angkor Wat in Siem Reap this coming Water Festival and I’ve been nagging Nestle to lend me his IR so I can take photos of the temples. He just gave me a jaw dropping expression after hearing me. I guess he is jealous because I will be the first one to do this and might be better than what he can do.

I have listed a few of my favourite IR shots. Just click on the link, to see the photographer’s works

http://nestlepoell.net/photography

http://digital-ir-photography.blogspot.com/

http://myinfrared.net/

http://10steps.sg/photography/40-amazing-infrared-photography-images/