Quintessential Phuket

[biggerry]

What a joint eh? I don't think I will be back to Phuket anytime soon! However the further southern regions where its quieter with fewer tourist knobs is quite pleasant

James Bond Island, I am still cracking myself from the funniest thai tour guide ever, you just had to be there!



some other bloody island full of tourists and and wannabe models



this image sums up the evenings in the southern region for me, sunsets by a quite local bar with a beer after bubs has gone to sleep - chilled, relaxed and chatting with friendly and genuine locals trying to understand each other and realising that we are not so different!

Well you may not get that from the image, however thats the memory I have of this one



one for teh ladies..rofl...this sums up Patong Beach in Phuket, what a sh$t fight this place is...this guys just oozes the type of tourists here...me excluded



if your wondering what the beach looks like, click for one more of the many panos from the trip.

[surenj]

I was waiting for these!

That James Bond island looks kinda magical! Nice timing on that boat leading in..

#3 - I can't believe you used your 105mm with manual focus while you are getting drunk! Classic shot though. Th gecko makes it come alive!

[Mr Darcy]

What a joint eh? I don't think I will be back to Phuket anytime soon!

That's the trouble with tourism. Someone discovers a magical place & tells their friends. Almost overnight it becomes exactly the opposite of what that first discoverer found. Get in early & keep mum about it is the only way. Sigh.
Still, as with parking in most shopping centres, you don't have to go very far for things to improve dramatically.

Like the pics though. Especially the lantern with ?Gecko?

[chrisk]

What a joint eh? I don't think I will be back to Phuket anytime soon!

That's the trouble with tourism. Someone discovers a magical place & tells their friends. Almost overnight it becomes exactly the opposite of what that first discoverer found. Get in early & keep mum about it is the only way. Sigh.

yepp. believe it or not, Bali used to be stunning before all the trash invaded and turned the joint to shite.

shot #1 is a stunner. nicest landscape shot i recall seeign in quite some time. well done mate.

[surenj]

Lol re shopping centres!
Gerry how much resolution have you got on the first pano? Great candidate for big print.

[Alex]

Great images. I like the evening image (no. 3) in particular.

We go to Thailand around once every year. We stopped coming to Phuket for the reasons you mentioned. We normally arrive there when we want to travel in the south and rent a car at the Phuket International and that's the last of Phuket we see. So many nice provinces in the south outside of Phuket!

Alex

[biggerry]

That James Bond island looks kinda magical! Nice timing on that boat leading in..

yeah, it was a flurry of dial spinning and scrambling for this one! we had only limited time (0.5hr) on the island

#3 - I can't believe you used your 105mm with manual focus while you are getting drunk! Classic shot though. Th gecko makes it come alive!

rofl, yeah I used the 105 quite a bit and very glad I did, it made a very nice walkaround lens for capturing streetviews and also portraits of my partner and bubs.

Like the pics though. Especially the lantern with ?Gecko?

yeah, some form of gecko, they are everywhere, in teh resort rooms, toilets....

Almost overnight it becomes exactly the opposite of what that first discoverer found

yepp. believe it or not, Bali used to be stunning before all the trash invaded and turned the joint to shite.

yeah its really sad, especially in Thailand where it is such a conservative country and so many westerners come over and rape the place (in so many ways)...yet the people are still so nice...

shot #1 is a stunner. nicest landscape shot i recall seeign in quite some time. well done mate

ta, I worked pretty hard on this one and definitely went over my 5 minute PP limit. The conditions where certainly not ideal, midday sun and fairly overcast..

Gerry how much resolution have you got on the first pano? Great candidate for big print.

4 landscape shots...I also have a very similiar one with about 8-9 portrait orientation shots...

Great images. I like the evening image (no. 3) in particular.

thanks Alex, I quite like this one too, mellow and relaxing and great memories...

We normally arrive there when we want to travel in the south and rent a car at the Phuket International and that's the last of Phuket we see. So many nice provinces in the south outside of Phuket!

good idea! We spent most of the time at very southern tip of Koh Lanta a very nice balance of tourism and the local community (well thats the impression I got)

[Jenno]

...and not a sunrise in sight Whats going on?
Welcome back
Seriously nice pano shots which would look better viewed large rather than here on the small screen where some of the elements of the image are lost due to their size. Great skies

[aim54x]

I love #1...and although I dont remember the movie that it featured in I sure to see the connection!

The clouds look awesome in #2...I would be very tempted to get out the clone brush to deal with all those pesky tourists

#3, love the gecko

#4....why did you have to post taht....im scarred for life now!

[biggerry]

...and not a sunrise in sight Whats going on?

I was always on the west coast so the sun came up on the other side of the island so the sunrise was pretty crap on the leeward side of the island, hence I did not even venture out in the morning, excluding to the deck which had a pretty premo view of the beach below

Seriously nice pano shots which would look better viewed large rather than here on the small screen where some of the elements of the image are lost due to their size. Great skies

true, and I think they could even be improved with some additional croppage...

#4....why did you have to post taht....im scarred for life now!

that is...Patong Beach in a nutshell.

[stubbsy]

Gerry

#1 is it. Then gecko lantern. As for Mr "I'm too sexy...."

Is #1 a HDR to slightly push the clouds (which works very well if it is)?

[surenj]

4 landscape shots...I also have a very similiar one with about 8-9 portrait orientation shots...

The portraits will give you a hell of a resolution!

[zafra52]

I like all of them, but the last one is an interesting
social documentary.

[biggerry]

but the last one is an interesting

As for Mr "I'm too sexy...."

not getting much love for the last one eh?

The portraits will give you a hell of a resolution

yeah, if I can get CNX2 to actually open and edit it....anything more than 4 or 5 images and it really struggles..

Is #1 a HDR to slightly push the clouds (which works very well if it is)?

no HDR, all the images where exposed to maintain all the detail in the clouds, which were very bright, this meant I had recover alot of light detail from the foreground, additionally it was around midday so not much love in the light department (sun is off to the right from memory). I did use a polariser, this is what gives the nice saturation on the foliage. for the processing, i excluded the sky when doing everything to maintain its exposure and detail. The only contrast applied to the clouds was some shadow contrast to give it some more definition.

hth.