Saturday July 18th was the twenty-four hr catamenia of the "Phuket Photo Walk", purpose of the World Photo Walk, amongst groups of photographers getting together all on the same twenty-four hr catamenia to accept photos of their town or city. According to the Worldwide Photo Walk website, in that place were 900 walks amongst over 30,000 participants. I had seen the walk advertised inward the Phuket Gazette the calendar week before, then logged inward to the website to sign upwards for the Phuket walk. I am a full photograph amateur, but I similar taking photos in addition to this weblog is ever quite prototype oriented equally I am a theater believer that a flick is worth a one 1000 words. Although that mightiness depend on who is writing. Maybe Wordsworth could compete amongst a photo, but my prose tends to endure less poetic, then I rely on photos.
I had no thought what to facial expression on Saturday. All the photographers were to come across at Cafe 154, Royal Phuket City Hotel inward Phuket Town at 9am. I was expecting a whole bunch of pros amongst huge lenses. I was worried I'd endure feeling a fleck inadequate, but was happy to reckon that most looked similar normal folks who simply similar taking photos in addition to I saw several familiar faces. Phuket is non then big, then if you've been hither a few years you lot tend to know quite a few other residents. There were alone a few actually fancy cameras around. I cause got a Canon EOS 20D, which is instantly a few years out of date. I saw an assortment of Canons in addition to Nikons in addition to fifty-fifty a Hasselblad. I mean value most of us assist were hoping to larn a few things from this walk. This was the get-go fourth dimension I tried using the RAW format for taking pictures rather than simply recording jpg images. RAW images exercise non convert the information received past times the sensor, then tin endure manipulated to exercise simply the correct photo. They also accept upwards acres of memory!
The walk leader was Kim Khamzin, a proper pro lensman amongst a huge lens. He lives inward Phuket in addition to takes a lot of photos amongst models. You tin cheque out his photos on Flickr: old Phuket Town which is ever skillful for photography. It's a yoke of blocks from the Royal Phuket City Hotel to the former town. Phuket town is non huge, slow to walk around, I never seem to acquire bored amongst photographic television camera inward hand.
Once nosotros reached the clock tower at the corner of Phuket Road in addition to Phang Nga Road, nosotros all went off our split ways, although over the course of report of the adjacent yoke of hours nosotros bumped into each other roughly the former town. It was a sunny morning, nosotros were lucky amongst the atmospheric condition equally it had been rather moisture during the week. Everyone took unlike routes roughly town. I mean value most headed straight to the former town, whereas I detoured a yoke of blocks due south to a street called Soi Taling Chan where you lot tin discovery a Chinese Shrine, a Mosque in addition to a Catholic Church inside a yoke of minutes walk.
If you lot cause got a photographic television camera in addition to desire to reckon something of the existent Phuket, non the tourist beaches.. acquire to Phuket Town, accept a walk. I had an enjoyable yoke of hours wandering, crossing paths amongst other photographers, stopping for drinks inward cafes (it was a hot morning), sampling temples, former Chinese shops in addition to getting enough of smiles...
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few of my favourite pictures from the walk... These doors are on Soi Romanee, a piddling street inward the essence of former town.
(Update) The photograph inward a higher identify has been reprinted inward the Phuket Gazette hardcopy edition this calendar week - reckon a photograph on my Twitpic page.
Many to a greater extent than photos on my Flickr page. I signed upwards for Flickr a few years agone in addition to had non uploaded anything for over ii years until this week! Click on the 2nd link for the grouping page on Flickr for the Phuket photograph group, most of the recent photos are from Saturdays walk. There were most forty people inward all, some locals in addition to some resident foreigners. There's a skillful mix of photos on the Flickr grouping - it's ever interesting to reckon how unlike people persuasion the same subject, the photos present what unlike photographers discovery interesting.
• My Phuket Photo Walk Photos on Flickr
• Phuket Photo Flickr Group
• Phuket Photo Walk Video on Youtube
After most ii hours, a fleck earlier midday, I was getting hot in addition to headed dorsum to Cafe 154. On a hot twenty-four hr catamenia inward Phuket, I exercise similar to reckon signs proverb "Special: Draft Heineken 99 Baht". Yes, please!
As everyone drifted dorsum to the cafe, in that place was a full general passing roughly of cameras to compare photos in addition to ideas, in addition to it was decided to cause got some other come across upwards on the 30th July at Cafe 154, Royal Phuket City Hotel starting at seven - 7:30pm. If you lot are inward Phuket in addition to interested inward photography or simply desire to chat amongst people who alive here, exercise come upwards along. Kim has asked people to convey CDs or USB sticks amongst their "best" photos to the meeting. It should endure a skillful run a jeopardy to larn something, or at the really to the lowest degree a skillful run a jeopardy to drinkable draft Heineken :)
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few to a greater extent than pictures from Saturday...
And finally, I saw this piddling fortune sticker on a pocket-size shrine exterior a identify inward the former town. I'll settle for happy.
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I had no thought what to facial expression on Saturday. All the photographers were to come across at Cafe 154, Royal Phuket City Hotel inward Phuket Town at 9am. I was expecting a whole bunch of pros amongst huge lenses. I was worried I'd endure feeling a fleck inadequate, but was happy to reckon that most looked similar normal folks who simply similar taking photos in addition to I saw several familiar faces. Phuket is non then big, then if you've been hither a few years you lot tend to know quite a few other residents. There were alone a few actually fancy cameras around. I cause got a Canon EOS 20D, which is instantly a few years out of date. I saw an assortment of Canons in addition to Nikons in addition to fifty-fifty a Hasselblad. I mean value most of us assist were hoping to larn a few things from this walk. This was the get-go fourth dimension I tried using the RAW format for taking pictures rather than simply recording jpg images. RAW images exercise non convert the information received past times the sensor, then tin endure manipulated to exercise simply the correct photo. They also accept upwards acres of memory!
The walk leader was Kim Khamzin, a proper pro lensman amongst a huge lens. He lives inward Phuket in addition to takes a lot of photos amongst models. You tin cheque out his photos on Flickr: old Phuket Town which is ever skillful for photography. It's a yoke of blocks from the Royal Phuket City Hotel to the former town. Phuket town is non huge, slow to walk around, I never seem to acquire bored amongst photographic television camera inward hand.
Once nosotros reached the clock tower at the corner of Phuket Road in addition to Phang Nga Road, nosotros all went off our split ways, although over the course of report of the adjacent yoke of hours nosotros bumped into each other roughly the former town. It was a sunny morning, nosotros were lucky amongst the atmospheric condition equally it had been rather moisture during the week. Everyone took unlike routes roughly town. I mean value most headed straight to the former town, whereas I detoured a yoke of blocks due south to a street called Soi Taling Chan where you lot tin discovery a Chinese Shrine, a Mosque in addition to a Catholic Church inside a yoke of minutes walk.
If you lot cause got a photographic television camera in addition to desire to reckon something of the existent Phuket, non the tourist beaches.. acquire to Phuket Town, accept a walk. I had an enjoyable yoke of hours wandering, crossing paths amongst other photographers, stopping for drinks inward cafes (it was a hot morning), sampling temples, former Chinese shops in addition to getting enough of smiles...
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few of my favourite pictures from the walk... These doors are on Soi Romanee, a piddling street inward the essence of former town.
(Update) The photograph inward a higher identify has been reprinted inward the Phuket Gazette hardcopy edition this calendar week - reckon a photograph on my Twitpic page.
Many to a greater extent than photos on my Flickr page. I signed upwards for Flickr a few years agone in addition to had non uploaded anything for over ii years until this week! Click on the 2nd link for the grouping page on Flickr for the Phuket photograph group, most of the recent photos are from Saturdays walk. There were most forty people inward all, some locals in addition to some resident foreigners. There's a skillful mix of photos on the Flickr grouping - it's ever interesting to reckon how unlike people persuasion the same subject, the photos present what unlike photographers discovery interesting.
• My Phuket Photo Walk Photos on Flickr
• Phuket Photo Flickr Group
• Phuket Photo Walk Video on Youtube
After most ii hours, a fleck earlier midday, I was getting hot in addition to headed dorsum to Cafe 154. On a hot twenty-four hr catamenia inward Phuket, I exercise similar to reckon signs proverb "Special: Draft Heineken 99 Baht". Yes, please!
As everyone drifted dorsum to the cafe, in that place was a full general passing roughly of cameras to compare photos in addition to ideas, in addition to it was decided to cause got some other come across upwards on the 30th July at Cafe 154, Royal Phuket City Hotel starting at seven - 7:30pm. If you lot are inward Phuket in addition to interested inward photography or simply desire to chat amongst people who alive here, exercise come upwards along. Kim has asked people to convey CDs or USB sticks amongst their "best" photos to the meeting. It should endure a skillful run a jeopardy to larn something, or at the really to the lowest degree a skillful run a jeopardy to drinkable draft Heineken :)
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few to a greater extent than pictures from Saturday...
And finally, I saw this piddling fortune sticker on a pocket-size shrine exterior a identify inward the former town. I'll settle for happy.
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