The Thailand Photo Thread

[PeteC]

I was going to put this in the "Birds of Thailand" thread as it was big enough to be a bird. Chomping off small bits of crab and taking back to its nest. It came back again and again for 15 minutes taking a small piece each time. Pete

EDIT: Taken with an IPhone camera.

[Jimbob]

recently visited Lake Phayao and Muang Phayao in May. The lake was created by a dam. The city seems a laidback place and unremarkable.

More of interest tome was to sit at sunset and look across my Gfs land to the next village.

I was so surprised at the noises of a village in the mornings but evenings were quiet.

4.30: the hour of the cockcrow. More like a cacophony of cockcrows as every bird in the surrounding houses and throughout the village competed for airtime like rauctious fans at a football match. However my eyes only saw black. I don’t have the ultraviolet sensitivy of our feathered backyard hooligans warning that dawn will soon come.
My eyes open at half light, not long after dawn and the loudspeakers of a Buddhist temple drone into life. That temple is in the next village on the far end of the rice fields that stretch out from where I sleep. The intonations blend into my mental twilight and are not unpleasant.
Now it’s full morning light, the bikes and scooters start putt-putting past the house on early errands. Not so loud voices from the street seep into my consciousness.
A new source of sound starts up.
‘Volunteers wanted for the Lychee festival in town’, comes the call from the village loudspeakers and more trivial matters are then announced and interpreted in brief for me by a voice in the kitchen. So different to morning radio announcers chat and talkback radio.
‘Come on, get up we have to go the market before its gets hot’, a familiar voice from the kitchen chides me on a fully conscious state TIT.

[Nereus]

4.30: the hour of the cockcrow. More like a cacophony of cockcrows as every bird in the surrounding houses and throughout the village competed for airtime like rauctious fans at a football match.

Foam earplugs young fellow, before they drive you crazy!

[Jimbob]

When being driven back to Chiang Rai airport with the GFs family, I was used as the excuse to stop and look at Wat Rong Khun, Chiang Rai province on highway 1.

Its whiteness definitely requires sunglasses and to me it bordered on the grotesque. Many Farangs were stumbling off the long distance buses looking stunned at the Wat while they grabbed a bite etc.
Definitely somewhere to see the White Temple of Northern Thailand once only.

[pitsch]

It is really a stunning view

[Homer]

Noticed one evening the sea was calm, saw the reflected light, changed plans, went home for my camera. All taken in Hua Hin.

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[PeteC]

This video may be of interest to some. Pete

http://www.bangkokpost.com/multimedia/v ... f-the-past

[Homer]

Taken in Hua Hin near the Hyatt. Yes, the light was that blue.

[Vital Spark]

Lovely photos Homer. I particularly like the young lad riding the horse. I enjoy taking photos, but 99% if them are pretty boring. Did you have to wait a long time to get the shot of the boy and the horse, or did you just spot him and shoot?

VS

[Homer]

Did you have to wait a long time to get the shot of the boy and the horse, or did you just spot him and shoot?

Thank you. I hung out for an hour waiting for one of the passing riders to enter the water or for the overall lighting and colors to change. Didn't mind the wait.

[gandalfinthai]

Hua Hin is a photographer's delight.

[wiki]

Does anybody know......?

[gandalfinthai]

I would love to post pictures but the "upload pics" option just doesn't show up. I am a member.

[Big Boy]

Now that you have made your 10th post, it should no longer be a restriction on you.

[ItsmeSusan]

Don`t know what that is, but I was happy that I didn`t meet it in the sea...