Boring Old Thailand?

[Samuian]

I started to take up Yoga again and learn how to laugh about me stupid fella,

feeling 24 with 57and going strong!

If you think that most of the time of your life you waste with sleeping, shower, toilet, eating.... there is no time left to be bored!

[neverdie]

Kan before I kan answer ur question, I must let you know I was onto you with the way you did this photo, however, Im not having a chop at ya because it looks great & being a rookie myself Im just tryin to learn.

Now as for the is boring old thailand, boring.......I'd say, with old hacks like you around the place, how could anyone ever think this place was boring

[Kan Win]

Kan before I kan answer ur question, I must let you know I was onto you with the way you did this photo, however, Im not having a chop at ya because it looks great & being a rookie myself Im just tryin to learn.

Now as for the is boring old thailand, boring.......I'd say, with old hacks like you around the place, how could anyone ever think this place was boring

Just take one photo and trun it into a ......true HDR like I did "Pseudo (tone mapped)" it is easy, well to me it is.

Please take time out and play around like I do

Yours truly,

Kan Win

P.S. 'Oi what is with this then

I'd say, with old hacks like you around the place

[Tracer Round]

I think you have to understand why it is you want to take photos. I am interested in, among other things, taking an image that can be manipulated in terms of the impression it makes on the viewer, with the aim of creating something that, if enlarged to the size that you'd see in an art gallery, would catch your eye.

Here, for instance, is a photo of a section of a tiki torch I made for the back yard. It started out as a plain color snap. Whether or not you like it is somewhat beside the point (although certainly we usually take photos to be impressive to others) since I like it.

There are plenty of things to experiment with here in Southeast Asia.

This one I'm not over the moon about, but it's also something along these same lines...I guess for me the idea is, hopefully, that when someone looks at what I've done, they pause and think, "Hmmm...that's interesting/different."

[neverdie]

P.S. 'Oi what is with this then

I'd say, with old hacks like you around the place

No disrespected intended

PS: Have been playin around heaps with the Camera & let me tell you that D300s is one champion of a Camera. Wanna find myself a wide angle lense tho & a couple of other things like a remote etc & im jack tired of bouncing around bangkok speaking to the sharks in the shops

[teletiger]

I spent nearly 10 minutes looking at this picture.

funny old world, innit.

Regards.

[kalasin]

This must be to provoke members.

A talented photographer should be able to get great photos no matter where.

Edited November 22, 2009 by kalasin

[The Vulcan]

This must be to provoke members.

A talented photographer should be able to get great photos no matter where.

I dunno about the talented photographer bit but you're bang on about provoking the members - it was getting a bit quiet around here at the time! :D

[astral]

Landscape wise it's a joke - green, green and more green, and a bit of brown dust........

I do not agree with you.

In my first few years in LOS I had to go back to the UK for a few weeks.

A family friend commented about how colourful the UK garden looks in the spring.

By comparison with the colours of the flame trees in April/May or the verdant

colour of young rice in the paddies, it was nothing.............

Perhaps you need to look with a new eye?

[AndyM]

I'd not say it was a boring country to photograph, far from it. I would say that it's a country where it's all too easy to run into cliched photos, something which I've still yet to fully conquer.

[Pooklook]

I'd not say it was a boring country to photograph, far from it. I would say that it's a country where it's all too easy to run into cliched photos, something which I've still yet to fully conquer.

Nice photos AndyM.....where in the land of smiles did you take them?

The third pic is nice.....non of the photos have any data..what kind of

camera did you use......they all look professional

[AndyM]

Nice photos AndyM.....where in the land of smiles did you take them?

The third pic is nice.....non of the photos have any data..what kind of

camera did you use......they all look professional

Hi Poolook,

Apologies for my delayed reply - I don't check back here too often.

These were taken on Ko Panyi, and in Lampang too. The camera used is a Canon 1Ds Mark III, and the lens used for the monk photo (my brother-in-law ) is a Canon 24-70L.

I'm currently back in Thailand shooting only with a little Panasonic GF1, and a 20mm f1.7 Pancake lens:

(Taken in Pai, Chiang Mai, Lampang and Krungthep)

[sceadugenga]

I'm almost embarrassed to show my offerings after the last photos but these, I believe, are a classic example of why you should never be without your camera in Thailand.

Edited February 15, 2010 by sceadugenga

[eurasianthai]

The links are not usable sceadugenga

Edited: Sorry, now they are

Edited February 15, 2010 by eurasianthai

[sceadugenga]

I have endless problems with this, I though KanWin and I worked it out but it's stuffed again. I'll just use the upload files bizzo.

[eurasianthai]

a classic example of why you should never be without your camera in Thailand.

Indeed, nice photos.

[eurasianthai]

And well, Vulcan, any other country in the world where waitresses have an orchid in their hairs and 100 baht notes on their dress?

[Kan Win]

I'm almost embarrassed to show my offerings after the last photos but these, I believe, are a classic example of why you should never be without your camera in Thailand.

Very Very nice photos 'sceadugenga'.

Looks like you go the hang of it then.

Sawadee

[Kan Win]

And well, Vulcan, any other country in the world where waitresses have an orchid in their hairs and 100 baht notes on their dress?

No show 'eurasianthai' in Boring Old Thailand

Sawadee

[eurasianthai]

I'm actually never bored about Thailand.

You've got the landscape and the light during the day, always.

And the action during the night

Edited February 16, 2010 by eurasianthai

[sceadugenga]

I'm almost embarrassed to show my offerings after the last photos but these, I believe, are a classic example of why you should never be without your camera in Thailand.

Very Very nice photos 'sceadugenga'.

Looks like you go the hang of it then.

Sawadee

Thanks Win, I'm still not sure what they were doing, diving for something that had been thrown in the river perhaps.

I just happened to be at Khun Korn Nam Tok National Park near Chiang Rai showing a visitor around and came across the group of young monks, apparently with Mums and Dads in tow, so I asked permission and started snapping.

Very unusual I thought.

[Kan Win]

Thanks Win, I'm still not sure what they were doing, diving for something that had been thrown in the river perhaps.

I just happened to be at Khun Korn Nam Tok National Park near Chiang Rai showing a visitor around and came across the group of young monks, apparently with Mums and Dads in tow, so I asked permission and started snapping.

Very unusual I thought.

Not really as Tom Jones is coming to Thailand

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Tom-Jones-Co...ok-t330873.html

so "it's not unusual"

Back to your post, the young monks are there only for a splash and dash as they are only in monk-hood to please their Mums and Dads, perhaps for a week or two, may be more

Great photos 'sceadugenga' nothing boring about Old Thailand is it.

Sawadee

[sceadugenga]

I couldn't imagine anyone getting there for fun, the water here's a bit cooler than in Kan, Win.

This is Chiang Rai in the cool season.

[eurasianthai]

Boring, no...

[astral]

Was he blowing you a kiss?

Lucky you.

[eurasianthai]

Not that guy, but I guess these guys, in Hua Hin also, the same day, could have blown a kiss, and well, something else...

Edited February 24, 2010 by eurasianthai