Don't ...

I just had to snap this ... Bangkok five minutes ago!!

DW

More Steel!!

As we were leaving for Bangkok i took two final photos and i hope you can see several more sets of steel work rising from the foundations.

DW

You Like Tractors?

Take a look at where we are just now ...

DW

Steel Work

Never thought you'd be excited by rebar did you? Here's some ... The house is starting to go UP now!!

DW

Missed Opportunities

Wherever i go i normally take at least one of my cameras with me, even if it's onlya phone camera.

Except for this evening when ...

The sun was sitting behind a cloud just before sunset

There was a flock of large Stork like birds flying around above us and then they settled the trees nearby

There were two water Buffalo paddling in the lake

The scenery was very photogenic

We will go there again tomorrow at the same time, armed with a suitable camera, to see if we can recapture any of what we missed today!

DW

Steel Arrived!

We were promised some foundation work on Thursday and whilst I thought it couldn't happen, some steel work arrived this afternoon. So, maybe we're on track after all!

I hope so because we have to go back to  Bangkok on Friday.

DW

Eureka Moment

I've tried many times to take photos in very low light settings and have always been frustrated.

A power cut arrived so we wandered outside and once my eyes had got used to the dark ... brilliant stars all over the sky. One shooting star to boot.

I thought, let's have one more try at taking a photo of the stars. Camera on! Change  the ISO setting to its maximum 1600. Point! Shoot! 

Nothing :(

I put the camera away and went back to star gazing. Then i had my eureka moment ... the camera can't take a photo because it is set to automatic by default. So, I thought, if I set it to manual focus maybe it will do as I want!

I went and got the camera again. Changed the focus setting to manual. I already had the shutter open for 5 seconds but I increased that to 6 seconds.

I pressed the shutter release button and after a delay of a second it took a photo ... of the stars!

I did it! Eureka!

The power cut is still with us so i can't post any photos here yet but I will as soon as I can.

UPDATE: here are three photos for you ... sorry but very low resolution although the originals are 5 Mb in size.

DW