Photo Gallery: Kodak Gold on EOS Rebel 2000

Shot with Canon Rebel 2000 on Kodak Gold 200

Because it's an older camera (produced sometime between 1999 and 2002), only my telephoto lens works with my Canon 2000. I'm saving up to buy an older lens that I can use with it, but in the meantime, the telephoto is ok. It actually makes for an interesting challenge trying to do street photography with such a close frame.

I took most of these photos in Bangkok's Old Town (Banglamphu neighborhood) while walking to and from the National Museum for my ongoing study and training.

A Bangkok city bus drives Wat Pho, one of the city's most famous Buddhist temples. While this area is usually thronging with backpackers and tourists, it's quite nice to visit now during the quieter season before the country opens up to tourism once again. Now, Banglamphu feels like a quiet, older neighborhood, and it's quite charming!

I rarely take tuk-tuks, but I was in a rush, and the driver offered me a good price. Without tourists, tuk-tuk drivers now assume I am an expat, which means I get a much more fair price. I actually kind of like tuk-tuks. They are impractical, but a lot of fun. The driver took me from the pier to the National Museum.

I am planning a day to visit Wat Pho and the Grand Palace again before the tourists return. Although Thailand relies on tourism, there's talk of trying to restructure the economy to diversify it and keep the number of tourists a little lower and more steady than it has been.

A driver works on fixing his tuk-tuk, which is parked with others outside the walls of Wat Pho. These things are apparently quite easy to keep running if you know some basic mechanical skills. I'd love to drive one, but foreigners can't apply for a tuk-tuk license.

Wat Arun, the Temple of the Dawn, sits of the Thonburi side of the river, and can be seen from kilometers around as its central prang towers over the city.

The temple can be seen in the gaps between the narrow alleys as you walk along the road near the Grand Palace. I still need to make it over this way for sunset sometime. It's one of those quintessential Bangkok experiences that I still haven't had.

Early morning is the best time of day to visit the Old Town.

As I walked to the National Museum, I passed shops selling all sorts of stuff, including one very specialized shop selling only dice.

Wat Arun is one of the most iconic symbols of Bangkok. I've taken far too many pictures of this magnificent temple, but I just can't ever seem to stop myself from snapping one more.

Museum Siam, a museum dedicated to contemporary Thai culture, is built in the former Ministry of Commerce Building.

Looking down the street on a sunny Bangkok day.

A statue of Vishnu stands in front of the Buddhaisawan Chapel at the National Museum in Bangkok.

The Buddhaisawan Chapel was once the private chapel of the Vice-King of Thailand, a position since abolished in favor of a Western-style Crown Prince. Today, the Front Palace, the historical residence of the Vice-Kings, is home to the kingdom's fantastic National Museum.

Devas - Buddhist angel-spirits - guard the entrance to the Buddhaisawan Chapel at the National Museum in Bangkok.

Temple roofs - my attempt at being artistic with the telephoto lens.

Despite the area's famous sites, Banglamphu is still quite a nice old neighborhood. Even if there are lots of tourists here, it is still very much a part of town where people really live, work, and study.

The area around the Grand Palace is under a state of massive construction and renovation in preparation of the kingdom's reopening to tourists. The city is installing a series of air-conditioned underground walkways to link some of the Old Town's major sites to keep people safe crossing the street, help traffic, and keep visitors more comfortable.

Right now, everything is a mess, but it will be really great once the construction is finished and the new phase of the city's construction is up and running. It will make this a much nicer part of the city to walk around in. It may not look like it from this picture, but Bangkok is quite a pedestrian-friendly city.

A Chinese lion guardian stands in front of a small riverside shrine in Bangkok's Old Town neighborhood.

A lone tuk-tuk driving on a quiet street near the Grand Palace.

Looking across the river at Wat Rakhang, the Temple of the Bells. The telephoto lens makes the temple seem much closer than it really is. One interesting quirk about the Rebel 2000 is that it winds its film in reverse, meaning that when you load a roll of film, it automatically winds it into the camera, and as you take a picture, it winds the film back into the roll of film. This protects your photos if the back of the camera accidentally comes open, but it also means that the last few frames of the roll of film will have some light leak, as those were from the part of the the film that was first loaded into the camera.

A Thai police officer walks to work beneath a portrait of the King and Queen of Thailand on a bright early morning near the Grand Palace.