Images from Thailand

For a change I thought I would do a more personal blog post, I got back recently from Thailand and it was definitely a photographer's dream! The colours, the people, the food (sadly cannot say the weather as we had the most awful weather in Phuket which was a big disappointment but hey.... such is life).

We started off in Chiang Mai which was a great city, not too big so easy to get around, best way via Tuk Tuk except one of ours broke down! :) Loved the night markets and especially the Sunday walking market which was full of all sorts of lovely crafty things and best of all no pressure to actually buy them! Unless you wanted to.... We also did some elephant trekking and bamboo rafting which was great fun, and did a city tour, our first of many temples!

Hill Tribe Village lady weaving fabrics - some lovely scarves

Beautiful Lotus flowers used as offerings in temples

Phuket was pretty rainy most of the time, but we did go to a Thai cookery school for the day which was great - learnt how to make 5 different Thai dishes, sadly hard to reproduce now..... :) Definitely well worth the trip which started off visiting a local market to source ingredients.

My very own yummy Pad Thai!

Lastly Bangkok for a few days, more temples, an interesting Lady Boy Show and more shopping. But one of the highlights of my trip was to the Floating Market about an hour from Bangkok, definitely was in my element there - just an amazing place to photograph!

People praying at the Grand Palace temple in Bangkok

Lady boiling coconuts to make coconut milk

Local woodcarver

Love this picture of young monks feeding the fish

Tuk tuks - great way to get around!



Bangkok's houses on the canals


Definitely recommend Thailand as a holiday destination and especially for photography enthusiasts, most of the photos were taken using my 50mm f1.4 lens which was fab, and also my handy Canon G10!