Daily Photo – Loh Dalam Refractions

September 5, 2012
Travel

$Daily Photo – Loh Dalam Refractions$

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Taken from the lookout on the eastern part of the island, the ship is beached on the sandy isthmus that joins the two parts of the island. The water here was really shallow - the two people on the right of the image are actually sitting down at this point, not standing. The varying depths of the water and the light ripples of the breeze driven waves are refracting the sunlight to give the rainbow effect of this image.

Daily Photo – Loh Dalam Bay

September 4, 2012
Travel

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Loh Dalam Bay is on the north side of the sandy isthmus that connects the two limestone outcrops that form Phi Phi Don. This photo was taken from the lookout on the eastern half of the island. I'm guessing I used my Tamron 500mm mirror lens for this photo as it was the longest lens I owned at the time.

Daily Photo – Koh Phi Phi Don

September 2, 2012
Landscape

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Back in the late 80's there wasn't a whole bunch of development on Koh Phi Phi Don, the largest of the Phi Phi Islands. The deeper bay is Ton Sai Bay to the south (left in this photo) so this is where the ferry boats pulled in to what was then a fairly circumspect pier. Loh Dalam Bay, the bay on the north, was quite shallow and at low water you could walk a long way out on the sand.

Daily Photo – Andaman Outcrop

September 1, 2012
Landscape

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On this first trip to the island I took a few days and went over to Koh Phi Phi - the Phi Phi islands - about 25 miles east-south-east of the town of Phuket. The photo below is one of the limestone outcrops that jut out of the Andaman Sea in this area.

Daily Photo – Mopping Up

August 31, 2012
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What do you do after a heavy storm? You mop up your courtyard, obviously (not). I was still bemused by what I was seeing, workers mopping up the rain soaked courtyard around the building housing the Emerald Buddha at the Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok.

Daily Photo – Wat Phra Kaew After the Rain 2

August 30, 2012
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Today's photo is a wider shot of the scene I posted a couple of days back of storm clouds at the Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok. The storm clouds are receding, the ground is starting to dry up and more people are out in the open, though many remain in the shelter of the pavilions.