I appreciate that my friend Noom attempts to share in those activities I tend to enjoy. Like him being straight and still participating in gay sex. Since in Thailand I’m rarely without a camera, Noom too decided he needed to be a photographer, which – much like the gay sex thingy – only required that I pay for it. He only carries his camera when we officially go on a trip, but takes a lot of photos when we do. Almost as many as I do when he hands me his camera to take a shot of him standing in front of some local landmark.

Noom is quite the photo connoisseur when it comes to the pictures I take. With his photographic endeavors, not so much. At the end of our day’s outing, he goes through my shots on the computer, deleting all those that do not meet his standards. His, of course, are all keepers. No problemo. He shares his with me and I can delete them to my heart’s content later when he’s not around.

This would be one of those. Overexposed with some touri in the photo ruining the shot, between the two of us we had enough decent shots of this wat in Luang Prabang that this one was headed for the trash can. Until I took a closer look at it. Noom is selective in what he photographs. There’s always a reason behind the shot. Especially if he is not in it. I had to zoom in before discovering why he took this one. And that’s all it took to turn it into a keeper.

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