This is one of those pictures that makes an open and shut argument for digital photography. If I’d seen this image at the time, I would have deleted it. But it was 2000 and I wasn’t going to see how bad it was for another two months.
The drink in the hand doesn’t help my case. Here’s my defence. We had arrived in Singapore the day before, for a three day visit before flying on to Australia. Being good tourists we headed off to Raffles for the obligatory Singapore Sling. My sorry state has everything to do with jetlag, and nothing to do with the drink that I had not yet touched, or even the cost of the drink that I had not yet discovered.
Digital photography has many benefits: the end of carrying rolls of film, of worrying about that last shot on the film when you’re wanting to take lots of pictures, of developing all those photos when you get home, or even on your travels. But without doubt, the greatest advantage is the ability to see a picture as soon as you take it, and press delete. However, even in this digital age, if you don’t feel like having a picture taken, you should stand your ground and the photographer should respect your wishes. Otherwise this could be the type of result; and we all know people who we don’t trust to really delete photos, even when they say they will! At least I can now see the funny side, and share my embarassing photo on here.
We experienced many culinary delights while in Singapore, and these are worthy of another post. As for the Singapore Sling, unless you have a particular urge to spend a very large sum of money on one fairly ordinary drink, save it and splurge elsewhere.
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