Off the Gulf of Cambodia - Koh Rong

03/31/2011

Leaving Sihanoukville with Ben and our blonde ponytailed boat captain.
Some companies/publications that have used Ben's work include Lonely Planet, NZ Ski, FHM Magazine, and a long list of others.
He's also had over 100 000 individual image licences sold.

Lena hops onto the boat.

White sand and crystal clear waters of Koh Rong

When you get to an untouched and secret island, it's great to suntan and run around in the nude...BUT a bitch to live on. A 4 hour boat through choppy waters off the gulf of Cambodia and hello beautiful tropical island Koh Rong! It's virtually untouched, which means no jetty! So grab your bags, get into the ocean and with your bags over your head army-style wade 10 minutes to shore. Not as easy as it sounds when you pack like me. My photographer dumps his camera equipment in a cooler box, swims to shore then makes another trip back to put his macbook into his backpack. uh oh. A drop in the sand banks has poor Ben, backpack and macbook completely soaked in sea water. But the sun's going down, let's shoot first and figure out if it's dead later.

I love shooting with Ben. A wonderful person, a brilliant photographer and a great new friend.

Chances of your camera getting wet when doing beach shoots are high. A wave hits the camera and it goes dead. So we call it a day and figure out a place to stay on the island. Sunset. We look for a hut to stay in for the night. This island has no electricity or running water, so we walk in darkness through jungle and over rocks with the help of a small torchlight. The owner of the huts tells us to please be careful of the snakes..the king cobras will move away from you but not the red poisonous snakes. Great. There we are finding our way in darkness and now i have "red poisonous snakes" repeating in my head.

We slept in a hut with no lights, no fan, no running water. All it had was 2 mosquito nets and mattresses. It's been 10 years since this city girl has slept without air conditioning, what more this.

What's the worst thing that could happen after swimming from the boat, walking in darkness along the beach then through jungle to the hut? I had left something on the boat! So Ben being the great guy he is offered to go all the way back to the boat with me. Back on the red poisonous snake trail we were, the wind's howling and a storm is approaching. But i'm so thankful i forgot something on the boat. Walking along the pitch black beach we notice the shoreline glowing specks of green. Ben points out the glowing plankton and i'm staring in awe. It was just too surreal! It's so dark all we could see of the boat was a tiny blinking light. We start swimming and oh my god glowing green plankton everywhere! They glow when they are disturbed and Ben was darting around the water in front of me leaving a light trail...it looked like something out of a sci-fi movie. These were gazillions and gazillions of bioluminescent plankton! That scene from The Beach of the plankton with Leonardo Dicaprio was actually real! Gosh, one of the most beautiful moments in my life :)

- more photos up soon -

I couldn't bathe or do my makeup...so our sunrise shoot the next morning had to be done without any makeup on. Tenashar www.tenashar.com

there was a storm during the night and i love how the windy morning completely messed up my hair. Tenashar www.tenashar.com

Comments

-ZhiYan- link

04/01/2011 06:02

It's been over an hour since I read this post, and the word 'snakes' is still reverberating in my mind. It's the only creature I fear and I cringe at the slightest mention of them. Hopefully, I won't have nightmares later =/

Right, I commented on all your entries and by now you might be wondering. No, I'm not obsessed, neither am I psychotic. Hope I will still be welcomed here =P

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04/01/2011 11:09

Oh yea...i was scared as hell, especially since if any of us had got bitten, we wouldn't be able to survive the 4 hour journey back to mainland then hunt for antidote.

Of course i wouldn't think that way of you! i really appreciate the words and hope you do give me more feedback on both a model and photographer. It'll definitely help me a lot in improving :)

Thanks Zhi Yan ;)

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When one speaks of a model, we can only imagine stick thin expressionless blondes with a mental capacity lesser than that of a gnat. However, such is not the case with Tenashar. With the fiery European tenacity she has developed whilst living in Europe, and perhaps egged on a little bit by her Eurasian descent, Tenashar’s talents extends beyond the realm of modelling, but also to photography, disk-jockeying and entrepreneurship. Having cultivated her liberal views during her stay in Europe, Tenashar’s photography brings out the rawest of emotions in her work. With her latest project in the deep hostile south of Thailand, within the conflicted areas of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani, Tenashar hopes that her works will bring awareness to the broken lives of people and children there. That being said, one must agree that under that exterior of burning beauty, beats a heart of compassion.

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