Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
December 30, 2013
Cruising along the Mekong Delta River
Kinda wanted to take a dinner cruise on this ship just for the novelty…
Christmas Eve… who knew it was this big of a deal in Vietnam.
NOPE.
Cruising along the Mekong Delta River
So many delicious exotic fruits – jackfruit, mangosteens, dragon fruit, papaya, and pineapple.
Nothing to see here… just pups on a motorbike.
Cruising along the Mekong Delta River
Eye opening experience- never realized you could use the coconut itself to scoop out the meat!!
Some sort of fresh sugar cane drink that sounds much better than it tastes.
Rose apples – YES.
Fermented cobra snake wine… yep, this was real life and I’m so glad I forced my ex to try some.
Some sort of weird santa gathering in the park…
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
December 19, 2013
Chinese temple
Loved these incense corkscrew ringlet things so much that I took two home! Offering incense smells so good it’s crazy.
By far my favorite part of KL – Batu Caves.
“I’m such a sucker for baby animals” – every girl ever.
Eating offering flowers, it’s nothing to him.
This guy is the reason that the monkeys aren’t afraid of humans and feel entitled to food…
So many monkeys!!
A pretty cool aviary.
Chinatown
Hindu temple directly across from our hostel.
Not one, but TWO moms and babies. Pretty much was dead at them holding tails.
Pretty sure these might be love birds… which makes this a literal love triangle.
Petronas towers.
Chiang Mai, Thailand
December 13, 2013
New website and tumblr is coming soon so be ready! As I’m getting these things together I’ve had to go through tens of thousands of photos but I’ve found it to be really motivational and inspiring to look at everything I’ve seen & done in the past couple of years, so here’s the last of my photos from Thailand- enjoy 🙂
The first time we ate at this restaurant by our guesthouse. Gotta love them for trying with this sign…
Amazing passionfruit smoothie I had to document to remember.
We had a couple friends living here and this was a short walk from their place- an outdoor cafeteria of sorts.
Not gonna front, I was definitely nervous.
Zorb balls… this was about the most fun two adults can have sober.
Our driver stopped us here for an amazing view of the city. Sidenote – if you need a driver during your stay in Chiang Mai, we got his card and would love to pass on his info to anyone.
View from our guesthouse room.
Seems legit.
Trusty restaurant next to our guesthouse where we dined at several times. Also, eating rice among other foods with a spoon rather than a knife makes SO much sense and I still eat rice that way to this day.
We really lucked out with the driver that our guesthouse arranged for us. He was the most humble, down to earth man I met on our whole trip. He was a really good sport and drove us around for hours on our last day, made suggestions to our plans and took us to his favorite restaurant for northern Thai delicacies.
Restaurant where we had our last meal with our awesome driver.
One of my favorite markets throughout the whole trip.
Wooden temple.
What a cute little bar.
Crazy little mobile shrine.
Me and a baby tiger.
This was literally breathtaking.
My first time having khao soi. Highly recommend– I would consider it the northern Thai comfort food equivalent to chicken noodle soup (but WAY better).
Cute little sun deck at our guesthouse.
Halloween Pt. 2
November 4, 2013
I was too indecisive until literally the day of Halloween, so at the last minute I threw together a Morticia Addams (kinda) costume and snapped a quick self-portrait.
Memphis, Atlanta & TomorrowWorld
October 5, 2013
Let me preface by saying all of these photos are from my iPhone 4s. Since we couldn’t camp by our car (and the parking lot was about 2 miles away), I didn’t bring my D800 or D200 and my trusty point-and-shoot is donezo.
Memphis skyline.
- One of the 5-6 states we drove through to get there.
Made new business cards for the occasion.
We noticed we were driving through Talladega County, Alabama and I wasn’t really expecting it to be the same location as Talladega Nights, but I looked it up and it was. Very shortly after that I saw some race car looking flags and sure enough, it was the Talladega Speedway.
A&R BBQ in Memphis is not something to sleep on. So. Freaking. Good. I got the short ribs sandwich and we split fried pickles… my favorite.
Monorail (right?) in Memphis.
Finally in DreamVille, the camping grounds of TomorrowWorld. Everything was so cute.
I’m used to waiting in line for festivals, clubs, concerts, etc but this was ridiculous. After sitting in a car for hours and sweating my butt off dragging all our camping gear from the parking lot to the entrance, the last thing we wanted to do was wait in a big crowd of people in the midday sun.
We actually never received our wristbands in the mail and therefore never got the cute “magical chests” which I’m still a little upset about. Getting our wristbands from will call was a fiasco to say the least. I was directed and redirected by 4-5 people and finally when I got to the last one they took forever just to tell me what I already knew- they had sent the wristbands but they never arrived. At one point it seemed like we wouldn’t be getting wristbands at all, but finally we did.
The long pre-festival campers line we have grown accustomed to.
Crazy/fancy hand-washing station. There were all kinds of toiletries and products available for festival-goers to use, which was great, but we weren’t even used to having actual sinks to wash our hands in! Normally at festivals there are just hand sanitizer dispensers which just doesn’t cut it, especially for campers because we don’t even get to go home and wash our hands.
Rainbow in the fountain crossing the bridge.
My biggest regret is not saving my phone battery for at least one picture of this bridge all lit up at night. It really reminded both of us of a particular bridge in Chiang Mai, Thailand to get into the old city.
I just thought it was hilarious that they really thought of everything. Who really needs an at-home drug test… inside DreamVille? And a pregnancy test?!
Still can’t get over how cute everything was! There was nothing basic about this festival.
This stage had super amazing speaker systems in addition to having 3D animations and fountains… oh yeah, and it was riverside. How perfect.
These guys lit up at night and spit out water.
We’ve all been there. The Struggle. Tents effectively become ovens during the day. Luckily, we were spoiled with no rain and temperatures in the 70s and low 80s.
Not the best shot with my phone, but this stage though! Unreal.
Again, not the best quality with my phone but Kenny from Loudpvck was cracking me up… this was pretty much his face through their entire set.
That main stage though! Straight out of a fairy tale.
There wasn’t a single set at this stage that I wanted to watch but it was so cool that I hung out for a bit anyway.
I mean just… a floating stage. Enough said.
The trap stage… I died.
Special TomorrowWorld vanilla porter.
I love trying out new healthy foods when I go camping. I didn’t even know kiwi berries were a thing but I’m ’bout it. They taste exactly how they look.
I’m guessing this was just to cover some sort of electrical box or storage but as a photographer and generally visual person, I really appreciated all the details.
When A-Trak closed out the Fool’s Gold Clubhouse, probably about 20-30 people all came out with his Twitter avi photo… hilarious. I took one home and put it on my wall cuz memories.
No caption necessary…
RL Grime and Araabmuzik put on two of the most well-crafted sets of the whole festival at this stage.
Riff Raff aka Jody High Roller was probably the funniest and most entertaining act on the whole lineup. I love his whole gimmick. That being said, I was highly unimpressed at the fact that he cut his set short by 20 minutes without any warning. At some point after this, I must have dropped my phone so I have no more pictures. After a lot of freaking out when it wasn’t in the lost & found at TomorrowWorld, and using Find My Phone to determine it was in Atlanta (TomorrowWorld took place in Chattahoochie Hills, GA- just 20 minutes outside Atlanta. After trying to call my phone from our camping neighbor’s phone with no luck, I got upset but did my best to make peace with the fact that someone had found my phone, taken it, and it was my fault for losing it in the first place. Finally, our neighbor told us he had gotten a call from my phone and that they left a message saying they were trying to get my phone back to me. Long story short, I ended up getting a hold of the kind souls that found my phone and we met them at their hotel in East Atlanta to get it. It really restored my faith in the human race a little bit to know that there are still good people out there. When I finally got it back I saw that they tried VERY hard to get it back to me. My phone was completely passcode locked so that (hopefully) if it fell into the wrong hands, the perpetrator would be less inclined to keep it, but that also meant that they had very limited methods of getting any information about the owner of the phone (me). I realized that someone mentioned me on Instagram (@jennicamaephoto, follow me!) and they saw my handle, looked me up on their own Instagram, saw my website in my bio, and used the contact form to email me about finding my phone. Crazy!! That awesome situation is very representative of the culture and demeanor of many of the TomorrowWorld festival-goers, and totally solidified my decision to go next year. I’m ready to buy two tickets on the pre-sale and do all of it over again (sans losing my phone).
Jennica Mae Photography 