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Hi!

Dark, cold and wet weather had me spend the weekend indoors, glued to my computer screen watching my old slides from years gone!

I came up with these colourful flower pics taken during the Chiang Mai "Flower Festival" back in February 1995.

I have tried to polish them up again and get some life into these darkened old slides, and finally decided to put them up in an album.

Click on this link to get to my Photo Gallery:

"Flower Festival"

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View over Pee Pee Island from back in 1988, before the tourist invasions and Tsunami destroyed the island!

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This picture was taken in Muang Khong, Champasak Province, Laos, back in 1996.

Poor but proud little girl came forward to me and started to pose, totally unafraid and not as suspicious as her friends!

Maybe it was the knife she is holding that gave her the courage!?

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Three young boys triumphantly showing off after swimming towards and boarding the boat I was in, while cruising the canals of Banjarmasin in Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia!

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A proud young Vietnamese mother showing off her fairskinned curious baby in Danang Vietnam 1993.

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The Royal Pantheon at "Grand Palace" in Bangkok.

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Hi!

I took this old slide back in 1987 from the top of a building opposite the "Grand Palace" in Bangkok.

Picture has been cropped, saturated, dust been removed, sharpened and the sky changed to a clear blue one!

Here's the original downscaled to the same size for comparison.

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Beautiful picture like the way you have smoothened it given it a soft mysterious glow!

Here's my attempt from back in 1988.

I stayed a few days in a bungalow near Tham Phraya Nakhon and went up there everyday around 10.00am when the sun would strike the Royal Pavilion, but this was my best shot.

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Here's another one.

Here are a few more underwater pictures from the beautiful coral reefs at the Surin Islands!

Unfortunately ttese old slides from 1989 are very blurry!

Thai Spirit House.

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This is my best underwater shot of a clown fish in a Sea Anemone taken at Surin islands back in 1989, using a Nikon F3 in a EWA Marine plastic bag!

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Walked around Nyaung-oo Market in Mandalay taking pictures, when suddenly this boy pops up in the viewfinder from nowhere and got caught on my film!

Picture was taken during a trip through Myanmar in 1995.

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Colours are oversaturated, horizon is leaning to the left, the lightpole and plastic floats in the water looks too un-natural!

I'd take the picture at low tide and at another spot that looks more natural, closer to the water with the sky and clouds reflecting in the water.

Something like this, but taken at sundown!

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Another video I filmed on my last trip, showing the hectic nightlife along the famous "Walking Street" in Pattaya.

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A video I filmed in April this year while walking along the famous Soi Bangla in Patong Beach, where most of the nightlife in Phuket is concentrated with small sois filled with beerbars,gogos and discos!

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A video I filmed while strolling through the Tuesday/Friday Open Air market "Talaat Nut" on Soi Bua Khao, South Pattaya in May 2010.

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A video I filmed on my last holiday this year 2010.

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