Wat A Place

[samuijimmy]

Wat Plaelam Samui.

Yes that's a Jet Ski in the lake! ... they seem to be catching a lot of fish!

[Dancealot]

Jim, what did you change? Wonderful improved focus and clarity.

[samuijimmy]

Not sure DAL ... ^

can't blow my horn... see this one did not work!

[klauskunkel]

[klauskunkel]

[Dancealot]

[Assurancetourix]

Would like to see some more of that place if you have any.

All photos shot with a compact; I would like to buy one day a better camera...

[samuijimmy]

Great contribution ^

This morning already, I was asked to go to the local temple... I believe a ceremony to celebrate those who have died...(was not totally clear to me ... but hundreds of people there .)...

What happens to all that good food?

[Assurancetourix]

In Beung Kan Province, not far from Nakon_Phanom province, Wat Phu_Tok ,

[Assurancetourix]

Chachoengsao, not far from Bangkok; the biggest Wat in Thailand, ( thai people say )

Chiang_Mai Mahawan Temple

[Assurancetourix]

Chiang_Mai Wat Bupparam

Chiang_Mai Wat Chedi_Luang

Chiang_Mai Wat Phantao

[sunshine51]

^^^ Outta likes...

[Assurancetourix]

Mae_Salong Wat Santhikiri

From the road 1234 with a maximal long focus

Without long focus

[Assurancetourix]

Chiang Rai Wat Rong Khung ;

I will be there in november with a friend and our mountain bikes ; and I hope I can shoot some photos even it's a little bit destroyer..

[Rob8891]

A peaceful corner at Sinlatham Chao (Kruba Sriwichai Monument), beside the 106.

[Rob8891]

Sinlatham Chao (Kruba Sriwichai Monument), beside the 106

[Dancealot]

Would like to see some more of that place if you have any.

All photos shot with a compact; I would like to buy one day a better camera...

Did you get this shot in Phrae as well, A? I'm curious.

[Assurancetourix]

Hi, Dancealot, I think it's the same Wat

Inside this Wat there is a very beautiful and free museum about the Royal family

[Assurancetourix]

For us it's not a Wat but for thai people it is; ..........a catholic Wat ;

I'm living in a province - sakon_Nakhon - where many thai people are catholics or protestants;

In Nakhon Phanom and Udon_Thani also;

the photos under are taken on the main road 22 between Nakhon and Sakon

[samuijimmy]

^ yes not many people realize that there are other religions practiced here.... other than Buddhism and Islam! Occasionally one does run into Thai Christians.....

Those churches are certainly better than the ones ones on Samui! I think there are two or three, but I never felt the urge to photograph them!

I think this thread should include all types of places of prayer.... hope every one agrees! No point in making a new thread!

Assurancetourix PM'd both Ron and I, to ask .... OK with me!

[Assurancetourix]

Thank u Jim for ur excellent answer ;

Not too many churches in Thailand;

sometimes very poor like this one in a so poor village of burma refugees in Mae_Hong_Son province;

the name of the village

Ban_Nai_Soi, it's a Karen village were long neck women are living with their families.

The road -- 73019 -- to go there is so bad , very difficult to go there in the dry season ; impossible in the wet one if u don't have a real 4 x 4 ;

photos shot about 3 or 3 years ago

I went there a few months ago, the church has desappear; it's only a cross at the same place

Not far from this village a new church but it's a protestant one, not catholic

[Dancealot]

It's the same place, indeed. It's massive!

[Docno]

Temples, old and new, Khmer and Thai, Hindu and Buddhist. Roi Et.

[Any idea why the colours have gone dull here... it has an sRGB profile so should be OK (and my monitor is calibrated)]

[rhythmworx]

^^^ I've had this happen before, never found out what it was.

The pic looked fine on photobucket but lost saturation when I posted here.

[samuijimmy]

A memorial statue... Tongsala KP. (not sure who, only a plaque in Thai!)

Fanta sure is popular to "feed the Buddha"

[sunshine51]

Temples, old and new, Khmer and Thai, Hindu and Buddhist. Roi Et.

[Any idea why the colours have gone dull here... it has an sRGB profile so should be OK (and my monitor is calibrated)]

DSC02361nik (1).jpg

What SW are you using for post processing?

You can try to adjust the "vibrance" up a bit after you have

set the saturation to your liking. Post the pic & if the vibrance

isn't how you like, remove the pic & bump up vibrance in PP

again then repost. Give it a try...

It is still a nice pic IMO.

[Docno]

Thank u Jim for ur excellent answer ;

Not too many churches in Thailand;

sometimes very poor like this one in a so poor village of burma refugees in Mae_Hong_Son province;

the name of the village

Ban_Nai_Soi, it's a Karen village were long neck women are living with their families.

The road -- 73019 -- to go there is so bad , very difficult to go there in the dry season ; impossible in the wet one if u don't have a real 4 x 4 ;

photos shot about 3 or 3 years ago

I went there a few months ago, the church has desappear; it's only a cross at the same place

Not far from this village a new church but it's a protestant one, not catholic

Was in the same camp about 9 years ago and remember the church well (see below). Gave a talk to school students and shared rice whiskey with some very friendly Karenni people. There was a devastating fire there last year. 27 people died. Quite possibly the church was also lost to the fire...

[Docno]

Temples, old and new, Khmer and Thai, Hindu and Buddhist. Roi Et.

[Any idea why the colours have gone dull here... it has an sRGB profile so should be OK (and my monitor is calibrated)]

DSC02361nik (1).jpg

What SW are you using for post processing?

You can try to adjust the "vibrance" up a bit after you have

set the saturation to your liking. Post the pic & if the vibrance

isn't how you like, remove the pic & bump up vibrance in PP

again then repost. Give it a try...

It is still a nice pic IMO.

Thanks for your reply. I'm using Photoshop CS6 on a system calibrated with Spyder 4. When I load the same image onto DPreview (for example), it looks fine. When I preview it in Windows 7, it looks fine. But here it looks dull. Below is a comparison that will show the colour differences (though neither will be accurate given this is the site where I'm having the problem). Image on the left is the Windows image viewer and on the right is the image embedded here. The color difference is more stark on my monitor, but the site desaturates both images...

[Docno]

^^^ I've had this happen before, never found out what it was.

The pic looked fine on photobucket but lost saturation when I posted here.

Here, as a test, is the same image embedded from another site (1st version) versus embedded directly from my harddrive (2nd image).

[Docno]

^^^^

OK - it's clear from the comparison above that this site is messing up the colours if you upload an image directly from your harddrive. Perhaps its stripping out the colour profile. Colours are fine if you link in from another site. A bit of a hassle for those of us who don't regularly upload to other sites. Wonder if this can be fixed...? NIX THAT: THE COLOURS LOOKED FINE AT FIRST, AND NOW THEY'VE DISAPPEARED AGAIN! Very strange.

Here's what the image should look like: http://g3.img-dpreview.com/7CD6FE19846B4E878BFAADF75A484AC5.jpg

UPDATE 2: after I posted the edited version of this message, the colours of the previous post went fine again. Madness...