Daily Photo – Bangkok Grand Palace

August 23, 2012
Travel

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I snapped this image of part of the Grand Palace in Bangkok while racing up the Chao Phraya as a passenger in one of those long-tail boats. Later in the day I went back to the Wat Phra Kaew which is in the north-east corner of the Grand Palace complex and open to the public and I'll post some images from there in the coming days.

Daily Photo – Bangkok River Scene

August 21, 2012
Travel

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Every time I've seen the Chao Phraya River its been this muddy brown color owing to all the silt washing down from the hills to the north. The boat is a long-tail. It has all the appearance of an auto engine with a straight shaft output to the propeller mounted on gimbals on the transom.

Daily Photo – Bangkok Department Store

August 20, 2012
Architecture

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For R&R from Brunei I'd often go to Thailand. The image below is the first of my Thailand collection, and it's of a department store, somewhere in Bangkok taken July 16, 1989. It was taken in the morning, not that I can remember the night before - after all, it was Bangkok.

Daily Photo – Village in Brunei

August 19, 2012
Travel

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So I've not been able to place this on Google Earth but it think it was somewhere off Jalan Labi which heads inland from Lumut. It's later in the afternoon and a storm is coming in from the south-east.

Daily Photo – Jackup at Sunset 4

August 18, 2012
Travel

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So here's the detail view of the classic three view coverage of a subject. The first in the series was the overview, the broad expansive view of the scene. Yesterday I published the vignette, the honing in from the overview into a particular zone of interest. And here is the detail - a further narrowing of the vignette to a specific detail within the view.

Daily Photo – Jackup at Sunset 3

August 17, 2012
Travel

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I usually try to capture at least three views of a scene: the overview, a vignette and a detail view. Yesterday's shot was the overview - a wide, all encompassing view, typically taken with a wide angle lens. Today's shot is the vignette.