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So much love for Bangkok!!!

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Bangkok Day 12

Looking over Bangkok from my hotel room in Lang Suan Road. Ventured out early thins morning to try and beat most of the heat and humidity. Bangkok weather has been kind crazy the last few days! It has been wonderfully warm with a nice cool breeze to filthy hot and humidity at 100%. Weather like that really drains it out of us visitors and not idea how to really survive it properly. First place of…

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Bangkok Day 11

Well I have to admit that day was a day for inside. Bangkok was a hot old place today! Even though the thermometer might have only said 34 it felt well and truely hotter. I double checked my weather app and the temp said 34 deg C but felt like 42 with humidity around 60%. I spent the morning going for a quick wander down the street for a quick breakfast then headed to a one of the major malls.…

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Bangkok Day 10

Today was spent having a little cooking class with the amazing team at The Market Experience. This was a treat to myself for just the simple experience of learning more Thai cooking skills to take home and share with my friends once I get back home to Melbourne. I was super lucky as at the moment its Chinese New Year and there are a lot of tourist things very low on numbers so I had the whole…

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Today I think I really needed a change of scenery and made a very long journey out of Bangkok into Ayutthaya. Getting out of the city is sometimes very rejuvenating.

If you ever decide to head there I would also recommend getting there very very early in the morning. I probably would have liked to be there a little earlier as the heat of the day can be very very oppressing in the open areas. The site itself covers a lot of ground, about 289 ha, you can hire bikes or Tuk Tuk style bikes and drivers to take you around place to place. This could be a very good choice for those on hotter days or if you struggle walking from site to site.

If your heading to Bangkok and want to make the trip to Ayutthaya, try and do it mid week as well. Mid Week gives you a massive chance to glide through the heritage listed site without to much trouble. It will also give you time to spend in the ruins without running into to many other tourists and you can photograph with rather a clearer background.

Such a beautiful place and so serene. I had such a lovely time slowly walkthrough in-between all most of the ruins yet not seeing them all. Spending roughly 4 hours on foot made me very glad to get back to the bus to get back to the city. If I had of used a Tuk Tuk or Bicycle I would have been able to see a lot more of the buildings, but in reality I don’t think I missed out on anything that related directly to my experience in seeing this beautiful holy place.

Im so glad I made the effort to visit.

Bangkok Day 9 Today I think I really needed a change of scenery and made a very long journey out of Bangkok into Ayutthaya.

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Bangkok Day 8

Weather was just glorious today in Bangkok this morning. It was lovely to go for a bit of a walk around discovering. I popped into Graysons on Ploenchit Road and went to the Leica Store to have a look at the Nick Ut exhibition. His war photography on Vietnam and his most famous image of Kim Phuc running down the road after being burned almost to death by a Napalm Drop. His Kim Phuc image was and…

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Bangkok Day 7

Lovely day in Bangkok today. Warm but a beautiful breeze was blowing to keep the heat down a little and make the walking around more manageable. Today was again a basic day snapping a few more pic of maps I keep on finding around. I look forward to hopefully getting together enough to make a little book once I am back in Melbourne. The big site seeing trip of the day was to Queen Saovabha…

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Bangkok Day 6

So Sundays in Bangkok.. I don’t know if its just that I’m not a market person, but that leaves not a lot of things to do in Bangkok on a Sunday. So today was spent taking photos of my little odd maps and then a walk around Lumpini Park. Only a week more left in Bangkok and so much more still to see.

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Jim Thompson House Thailand

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Bangkok Day 5

So hot in Bangkok today.. SO HOT.. Today was spent popping into Kathmandu Gallery to take a look around at work by Kata Sangkhae titled ‘Narrative of Monuments.’ It was a lovely little display of a selection of printed and framed photographs and an assembled metal box that played sound inside it. The images are made in over exposed and underexposed selections of monuments around Bangkok. The…

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Bangkok Day 4

Well a big part of today was spent looking at all the amazing art at BACC which stands for Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. Its a MASSIVE place and really does need about 3-4hours of looking to get through everything. I think I got there about 10:30 and left at just after 1pm!! There are a few amazing displays on there at the moment and here are my reviews of each of the works I saw. Now The first…

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Bangkok Day 3

Today has been amazing. I was out early on the streets looking around and didn’t do a lot of shooting. I did chase a few little ideas to no avail, but thats OK. Sometimes not everything works out straight away and we have to work at it harder. I made it down to BACC to meet op with Tom from Wuthipol Designs this morning. We had an amazingly long chat about books, Melbourne, Thailand and Bangkok,…

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Bangkok Day 2

Day two in Bangkok was spent in absolute bliss. The morning was spent walking along the road Im staying in to discover some more amazing food. I managed to find something that resembles like a Thai Style doughnut. Probably more like an American style beignets or knish. Made with a sweet coconut milk I think and deep fried, and super dooper delicious. The problem is they are not really breakfast…

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Bangkok Day 1

Landed in Bangkok very late after a few problems with busses, no cabs to collect me, and I had to wing it to the hotel. But all in all got here fine and dandy. I’m still very very drained and trying to cope with sleep deprivation, time changes, and a little anxiety thrown in for good measure. It will take a few days for me to settle in properly and I hope most of these niggles will settle…

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Time for a change in programming

So things have been pretty busy as of late. Life never seems to stop for that moment to sit here and write something just to keep the world wrapping around my thoughts and dreams. Making work seems to be less of a chore than it has for quite a while and I have freed my mind of a few ideas and feelings that have been holding me back. Now some of the biggest decisions about my life and my…

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Just released my new photobook over at my Etsy Shop so please go take a look!!

Just released my new photobook over at my Etsy Shop so please go take a look!!