Anthong National Marine Park... (off Samui and KP)

On the way to the Secret water falls, off Soi 5 Maenam Samui.

The Secret falls... at about medium force... (not a lot of rain lately! )

drops at the top of a fountain..

I want to give this 3 more like +3. It is almost like you drew the abstractness right of reality , right there with just a photo.

Shukothai 2012

Clam diggers just out side Nathon, Samui, this afternoon!

My hobby...making Japanese Geta ...(and wearing them of course).

You are not mentioning where your photos are taken Fred!

Knowing minds want to know~!

sorry mate... http://wikimapia.org/#lat=20.0626265&lon=99.2692258&z=19&l=0&m=b

sorry mate... http://wikimapia.org...58&z=19&l=0&m=b

That shows a picture of a bunch of trees.... ha ha! after zooming out I am none the wiser!

Used to be a restaurant, if I remember.... Near Lomprayah Ferry landing, Maenam Samui !

Phetchaburi River in Amphur Muang Phetchaburi 4 October 2010.

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Yiihaa! Fooling around with camera Kamala beach, Phuket.

The effect makes them look like toys doesn't it...

Yiihaa! Fooling around with camera Kamala beach, Phuket.

The effect makes them look like toys doesn't it...

He got an effect! And that's what counts. . Appreciated

Yiihaa! Fooling around with camera Kamala beach, Phuket.

The blurring effect on the manipulated photo forces the intended focus to be directed towards the main subject which 'the creator' intended to present. In other words when i look at any new picture it's surroundings are just as important to me as the subject focus direction initially intended by the photographer. Hereby forcing the audience to perceptive only the target-focus and forget about the surroundings. This effect gives the photographer even more power than he already has by only showing a small piece of the world to people who have never seen this his way.

I would like to highlight 'this false sense of control' on which many photographers thrive on.

However in another point of view personally i think the end picture result is a success because it made me stop, come back(scroll back) and look again.

Lived @ Onnut Sukhumvit Bangkok for quite awhile

It's been pretty rough seas around parts of Samui lately....

This is the Lamai area, today!

Gazing at the shores of Samui island 2009

It's been pretty rough seas around parts of Samui lately....

This is the Lamai area, today!

Whats the brown scum floating on the water?

It's been pretty rough seas around parts of Samui lately....

This is the Lamai area, today!

Whats the brown scum floating on the water?

Jimmy felt sick and puked in the ocean before tacking the snap.

Saw these guys recently at Hua Hin...looks like fun!

To answer Waza's question... It's "sea foam" (post 257) not necessarily from pollution.... as disgusting as it looks ..... You should see at Niagara Falls, or recently in storms in Australia, it was several meters thick ....

Rough seas in Lamai on SE corner of Samui, lately... This was taken on Wednesday..

Then at the north end of the island (Maenam) it's just so calm....

The big boat is bringing in the new electric line from the mainland .... (yesterday)

To answer Waza's question... It's "sea foam" (post 257) not necessarily from pollution.... as disgusting as it looks ..... You should see at Niagara Falls, or recently in storms in Australia, it was several meters thick ....

Rough seas in Lamai on SE corner of Samui, lately... This was taken on Wednesday..

Then at the north end of the island (Maenam) it's just so calm....

The big boat is bringing in the new electric line from the mainland .... (yesterday)

Great pics............

PS: The sea foam in Aus is white

We just have a bit of refreshing here in Phuket. Temperature dropped to 25C and the wind is nice

Rainbows are quite rare events on these latitudes compared back to my home country, which is located above 60 degrees latitude Here in Phuket the time window to see the rainbows are always pretty close to the sunset and sunrise.

From wikipedia

It is difficult to photograph the complete semicircle of a rainbow in one frame, as this would require an angle of view of 84°. For a 35 mmcamera, a lens with a focal length of 19 mm or less wide-angle lens would be required. Now that powerful software for stitching several images into a panorama is available, images of the entire arc and even secondary arcs can be created fairly easily from a series of overlapping frames.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow

taken from my roof deck by my neighbor. wish it were mine!

Yiihaa! Fooling around with camera Kamala beach, Phuket.

The effect makes them look like toys doesn't it...

He got an effect! And that's what counts. . Appreciated

Thanks I agree the effect makes the subjects look like toys. Every now and then I wish to break the common rules to be maybe able to figure out something new.

it is called tilt shift and is becoming very popular to play with in both photo and videograpyhere is an exceellent example of it done well

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Gazing at the shores of Samui island 2009

DAL this is not Samui you are looking at.... Donsak, perhaps? .... man you are sure confused with your locations!

Murky Mekong

Gazing at the shores of Samui island 2009

DAL this is not Samui you are looking at.... Donsak, perhaps? .... man you are sure confused with your locations!

This is on the way to Samui i X-referenced. Almost docking time. 100%

Ubon beach...........

Happy Chang @CM 2007