Glen, you're back!

[birddog114]

How is your trip?
Please show us some nice photos in Koh Samui! and tell us some strange thing overthere.

[Geoff]

Welcome back GLen! It's been a tad weird without you here..but hope you had a GREAT holiday! Now..get to work and start some input to the forum please hahahahahaha.


Geoff.

[sirhc55]

Great to have you back Glen - you will see major changes have happened since you went on holiday.

Where are the 12-24mm pics?

Chris

[Killakoala]

Yeah, c'mon, where's the pics??? Show us the markets....

[Glen]

Hi guys, great to be back, the Thai people are very pleased to see tourists. Koh Samui and Bangkok were great. Will post a few shots probably tomorrow, just went throught the 6300 posts in my absence and dinner has been waiting on the table while I did that

[Onyx]

Welcome back in one piece Glen. Hope to see you at the meet on Sat?!

[Glen]

A few shots from the trip,

The beach in the morning




Island at 12mm (with dust bunnies, no time for pp)




The Big Buddha (showing the advantage of 12mm, the statues at the bottom are about 6 foot high!)




Many hands ( this statue is about 15m high)



A Wat by night



Beautiful place with beautiful people.

[Raydar]

Great images Glen
Great to have you back mate!!!
Love the last image mate, well captured.

Cheers
Ray

[JordanP]

Welcome back Glen.

Very nice pics, looks like you are enjoying that new lens. Can't wait to see some more pics.

Cheers,

[sirhc55]

Glen - some really nice pics with a very nice lens. Did you take a lot of pics whilst away?

My favs are #2, the statutes and the last shot.

Chris

[gstark]

Glen,

Welcome back.

Great shots; love the last one - the colours are just right.

[stubbsy]

Glen

Do you get the idea you were missed?

I like the first & last best. Great capture of the colours of the temple reflected on the water in the last one.

Cheers

[Glen]

Thanks guys for the kind words. I like the last one, but then I like them all as they remind me of a great holiday. Have a few more but my pixspot account stopped uploading about 4.30 am, am sure it will be fixed when Kristine gives the server its morning coffee. Didn't take that many shots but appreciated the new lens over there, my wife and daughter kept me busy carrying their shopping. Most of my shots were taken while outside shops waiting for them! A lot of the shots I like (including the temple) were taken when I escaped on a bike for a couple of hours.

[birddog114]

Thanks guys for the kind words. I like the last one, but then I like them all as they remind me of a great holiday. Have a few more but my pixspot account stopped uploading about 4.30 am, am sure it will be fixed when Kristine gives the server its morning coffee. Didn't take that many shots but appreciated the new lens over there, my wife and daughter kept me busy carrying their shopping. Most of my shots were taken while outside shops waiting for them! A lot of the shots I like (including the temple) were taken when I escaped on a bike for a couple of hours.

Hey Glen,
Actually you weren't on holiday! body guard/ minder and chaffeur job I have been down that road

[Glen]

Spot on Birddog, you have obviously travelled exactly the same road

[Glen]

A few more examples now my gallery is working again


Thai fisherman (might be a keeper after some pp, needs sharpening and one of the dust bunnies removed. One is a plane and the other a dust bunny but cant remember which, maybe Birddog or a plane nethusiast can pick the plane, maybe I'll just clear both)





Wat interor at 12mm (note straight lines and how much of the ceiling you see with 12mm)





View from my breakfast table, just couldn't resist it.





Looks like I have some pp in front of me if I want to print any of these out

[sirhc55]

The Wat is fantastic Glen, so rich in colour - just beautiful.

On the fisherman I would remove both bunnie and plane - just to be sure

Chris

[stubbsy]

note straight lines and how much of the ceiling you see with 12mm

It may just be me, but I'm thinking this shot may have looked a little better if you'd used a Nikkor 12-24mm

[Glen]

I contemplated that Stubbsy, but thought a fisheye effect wasn't fair to the monks who had spent so long painting the walls

[stubbsy]

thought a fisheye effect wasn't fair to the monks who had spent so long painting the walls

Touché

[Matt. K]

Glen
I can't wait to het hands on your camera and flip those dust bunnies off!

Love the temple shot..the colours pop right off my screen. Looking forward to seeing more when you get back.

[Glen]

Back now Matt and dust bunnies off. Didn't even realise they were there while shooting, proves the advantage of something like the Epson P2000 Birddy has rather than a screenless storage device. Thing is I had a cleaning kit with me, just didn't realise the problem