1 Night
1
Jewel
30.0 sec at f/20, ISO 100
Bangkok 4/28/17, 7:49:44 PM
Sony Alpha 6500 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The Buddha gazes out upon rush hour. Shot through a wrought-iron fence with two feet of my tripod up against the wall of the shoulder-less soi, and the third in the gutter. As motosai taxis swirled out from between the red tail-lights and white headlights of the jammed cars and then surged along the edge of the gutter, I would point down at the tripod leg, and seeing that the driver would carefully inch past. Smiles from driver, passenger, and me.
2
Fabric
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 2/28/17 8:12:00PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Fabric wrapped round the legs of a spirit house. Whoever called the guard thought I was up to no good because I was crouching in the bushes behind the spirit house, but the sight of my camera equipment mollified him, and the woman who came with him, too. The long exposure captures the light trail of a motosai making a drop-off at the apartment complex.
3
Sky Train
6.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/24/17 6:50:47PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The long exposure captures light trails from the BTS Skytrain. There are tire-tracks on the back of the vinyl advertising banner. I don’t know why!
4
Blind Spot
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 2/6/17 6:48:13PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Photography, of a street, with a decisive moment thirty seconds long. I’d like to go back and make this selfie wearing a red shirt for a different spot color, but the wall is now freshly painted pale green, so, as with so many other sites in dynamic Thailand, I can never make this photograph again.
5
The Green Light
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/19/16 8:02:58
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
I saw a single green light, minute and far away, way down at the end of a soi on the banks of a khlong. Then, as I walked toward it, to my amazement, the one light resolved into two.
6
Food Cart
8.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 10/22/17 6:04:12
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Hosed down for the night, food prep for tomorrow. The long exposure captures a garbage collector, in camo, moving cans.
7
Baby Blue
25.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 10/18/17 6:14:37PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Many spirit houses have altars in front of them, on which the spirit house’s caretakers place offerings, here incense. Generally the altars are metal (#6 Food Cart) or wooden tables, sometimes they are manufactured in the same style as the spirit house itself (#5 The Green Light, #7 Triptych), sometimes they are improvised structures. I have only seen one altar made from stacked-up bricks.
8
Triptych
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen, 5/4/17 6:35:34PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
In the right-hand panel, reflected traffic rushes toward an office worker at his desk. In the middle, the spirit house. At left, power and a pile of zebras, zebras because a zebra crossing shows the safe path to success.
9
Guard Dogs
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayutthaya, 3/25/18 6:50:36PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Wat Khun Muang Jai is a “broken temple,” now being restored, so here again photographs I have made can no longer be remade. I have visited so often that the soi dogs who guard the wat’s territory at night don’t bark at me.
2 Dignity
10
Ochre
1/25 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayutthaya 1/15/17 4:35:30PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
When this gentleman—a forest monk, but in the city?—has collected his greens, he will walk back the way he came. He came over to see what I was doing, and I tried to give him alms, but he refused vehemently, shaking his head.
11
White
1/10 sec at f/22, ISO 100
Lamphun 2/21/18 5:25:00PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The spirit house tries to nestle against the distant tree, while all the little plants look on.
12
Brown
1/8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Pattaya 1/14/29 12:21:32PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 250mm F2
The smell of damp leaves, mossy forest cuttings, the murmur of rain, woodlands shadows, sunlight moving under trees.—Paul Cézanne
13
Green
1.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 4/9/17 5:19:33 PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Did rain fill the glass, or did the caretaker?
14
Pink
1.6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Pattaya 4/22/16 6:19:32 PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Here, my friend helped me to step back from one-point perspective.
15
Yellow
2.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Pattaya 12/5/2016 5:12:19 PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Shyly retreating.
16
Lavender
0.8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 5/1/17 5:51:38PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Made in a cul de sac. From the shadow shape on the wall, the spirit house was moved closer to the bodhi tree to open up space for a new parking spot, but leans to be closer to where it used to be.
17
Rust
6.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 2/15/17 6:14:30PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
The next cul de sac, heading toward the river; photogenic spirit houses seem to cluster. Orange artificial flowers, broken brown beer bottles, gold paint….
18
Red
30 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 2/15/17 6:46:50PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Radio Broadcasting Station 99.5, “Radio Thailand Khon Kaen.” The long exposure captures the string lights’ entire cycle: red, blue, green, yellow, and back to red.
3 Sky
19
Bird on a Wire
1/6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 12/22/16 5:30:04PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Rules for spirit house placement are sometimes hard to obey in crowded Bangkok; in this case the size of the lot is the size of the building, and there is no room for a spirit house at ground level, on the land. So the ritual experts put the spirit house on the roof. I had passed down this soi many times, and never lifted up my eyes.
20
Brushwork
1/6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 12/31/16 6:02:24PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
21
Break in the Clouds
1/6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 4/10/17 6:00:15PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
22
“Shabuindy”
6.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 1/27/18 6:32:45PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
23
Chiang Mai Women’s Correctional Institution
1/8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Chiang Mai 3/14/17 6:23:05PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
This spirit house was perched on spoil from an archaeological dig in the prison yard. I wandered in around 5:00PM through the open front door, and for the whole session I kept an ear cocked for the slamming door that would mean I was trapped overnight (though later I checked Google Map’s Satellite View and found some of the walls surrounding the prison had been demolished, so I was really OK the entire time).
24
Mae Ping
1/20 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Chiang Mai 4/11/17 5:30:57PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
A motosai taxi shrine, with hotels on the background on the other side of Mae Ping. Hence the plastic fish basket hung on the roof.
25
Dump
0.8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 2/15/17 6:46:50PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Wat Khun Muang Jai‘s spirit houses were thrown down by the construction crew renovating the “broken temple.”
26
Cell Tower
20.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 4/10/17 6:46:17PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
The songs of birds in Khon Kaen at dusk are as piercing as the blue of this sky. The sign says: “Rooms for rent.”
27
Bottle Weight
30.0 sec at f/22, ISO 100
Khon Kaen 11/22/17 5:56:02PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Made on the front porch of a shop house that had closed for the day. When I had finished framing the shot, I sat down on the porch with my back gratefully against the wall (my kit is heavy), when suddenly the homeowner appeared with a blue plastic chair for me to sit in. In the background, Khon Kaen’s single condo tower.
4 Shrines
28
Wax
0.4 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Chiang Mai 3/10/17 5:27:42PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
I followed the scent of honey to this altar.
29
Cycle
0.5 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayutthaya 1/15/17 4:20:32PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
After a year, this shrine had vanished.
30
Siamese
1/15 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 5/18/17 5:58:01PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 12mm F2.8
The back lot of a hot-pot restaurant specializing in fish. The waitresses bring out the offerings (and the food for the cats).
31
Stool
30.0 sec at f/14 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/21/17 7:03:48PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
So much of Thai material culture: The wooden stool, the garlanded bodhi tree, the incense pot, plastic bags, crumpled posters, the broom, the wicker dustpan….
32
Rat
2.5 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 2/14/17 5:56:37PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Both photographs made—
33
Cat
5.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 2/14/17 6:07:14PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
—in the same parking lot within minutes of each other.
34
Taxi-Meter
0.4 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 5/21/17 12:06:27PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Taxi drivers’ shrine (with taxi).
35
Laborers
4.0 sec at f/22 1SO 100
Bangkok 5/19/18 5:08:43PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
I imagine a man and a woman, having come down from the North or Myanmar to find work, offering up their two hats for good luck (along with the energy drink in the little brown bottle).
36
“Scary!”
30 sec at f/13 ISO 100
Bangkok 5/17/18 2:28:02AM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
I started making this photo next to a lively food cart. When I squatted down to ease my back, the owner brought me a red plastic chair to sit on. I showed the image on my iPad screen to him, and then to his assistant, who had been to New York and spoke English. “Scary!” “Yes!” I left an offering of sticky rice.
5 Offerings
37
The Golden Land
1/13 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Pattaya 4/21/16 5:22:40PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Blood. Plus ant, blurred as the wind blurs the tip of the straw it has climbed up.
38
Power (1)
1/8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 5/8/17 4:31:50PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
During the rainstorm, the power didn’t fail.
39
Plate
0.5 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 4/8/17 5:46:35PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The slightest drip, a riot of plants.
40
Rule of Thirds
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayutthaya 1/17/17 6:15:53PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The bricks of Wat Khun Muang Jai still bear the soot and creosote from the Burmese sack of Ayutthaya in 1767. Even though—or perhaps because—it is a “broken temple,” this wat is a popular site for humble offerings like this.
41
In Memoriam
1/40 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayutthaya 3/26/17 1:36:59PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
At Wat Khun Muang Jai, an offering to luk thung megastar Pumpuang Duangjan, although I thought at first this was a memorial to a beloved daughter.
During another session before the same offering, I photographed well past sunset, and hastily leaving because of the mosquitoes, forgot to wai the spirit, and promptly barked my shin badly on a brick plinth I didn’t see in the dark. I still bear the scar. Do not forget to wai!
42
Blue Collar
1/13 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayutthaya 3/29/18 5:06:00PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
The warehouse door closing at the end of the shift.
43
Tobacco
1/8 sec at f/18 ISO 100
Pattaya 2/26/17 5:27:06PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Just after watering.
44
Power (2)
1/4 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 11/20/18 5:14:27PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Here too, neither the power nor the air conditioning has failed.
43
“Me, Me, Me”
0.6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 5/12/18 5:49:54PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Offerings to pop stars may be secular.
6 Figures
46
Boy
10.0 sec at f/22, ISO 100
Chiang Mai 3/8/17 6:20:22PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
When I returned to this park on the following day for a back-up remake, the blue figure was gone. I cannot but think it embodied a petition for the health of the skinniest, most skeletal boy I have ever seen, his father carrying him in his arms through the park to a tattoo shop across the street.
47
Umbrella
1.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Chiang Mai 3/10/17 5:15:43PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The bhodi tree’s shoot shades the broken figure’s face with its leaves, as best it can.
48
Phra Mae Thorani
1/15 sec at f/18 ISO 100
Pattaya 2/26/17 5:43:59PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Abandoned when a small business failed.
49
Phra Phikanet (1)
5.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 1/23/18 5:13:26 PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
The ghostly trainer of a caretaker.
Thais have a pleasing practice of creating chance blur by walking into the shot as they go about their business, which I make easy for them by setting up my tripod and camera as a “blind,” composing the shot, and remaining motionless.
50
Phra Phikanet (2)
1.3 sec at f/5.6 ISO 100
Bangkok 2/17/18 7:00:17PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Ganesh presides, as the proprietor closes the sale on a wedding dress.
51
Putto
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Lamphun 4/19/18 7:04:44PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Moonrise, Lamphun, Thailand.
52
Family (1)
1.3 sec at f/2.7 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/28/16 5:37:59PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
I identify with the caretakers I imagine arranging small figurines, but for secular, Western reasons: When I was very young, I had a toy farm from Sears and Roebuck, and would lead the animals out of the barn in the morning, and summon them home at night. Both the orderliness and the caretaking were re-assuring.
53
Family (2)
1/3 sec at f/22, ISO 100
Bangkok 5/21/17 12:09:03PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Family relations in Thailand seem much more intense than in the West (at least to me, with my WASP professional background). But I wonder if they sometimes feel like this.
54
Twilight
10.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayyuthah 1/13/17 6:15:34PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Broken figurines are not discarded, but placed in lesser holy places. A figurine shattered in the home may be placed in a broken temple like Wat Khun Muang Jai.
7 People
55
Apron Strings
15.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/7/18 6:44:59PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
A waitress caretaker refreshes the offerings in the evening before business picks up.
56
Christmas
10 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Chiang Mai 12/23/18 8:17:37PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
In blue and green, not green and red!
57
Seamstress
3.2 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/10/16 5:34:21PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
At right, a customer at the sewing lady’s stall (further right, not shown; now gone, replaced by an outdoor food court, in which the sewing lady got a whole booth, a huge step upward for her).
58
Hoardings
1/8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Chiang Mai 4/25/18 3:35:20
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Laborers, plural, erecting metal hoardings round a construction site. Somehow, but appropriately, my camera bag snuck into the shot.
59
Attendant
0.6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 2/10/17 4:36:14PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
A parking lot attendant about to ride home with his 7-Eleven drink.
60
Wai
0.4 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 5/18/18 5:50:36PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Many passed by, but this lady was the only one who waied.
61
Father and Son
2.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 2/14/17 5:47:00PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
In back of a big food court. I set up first at a spirit house in front, but the workers were careful to guide me to this one, in the back, which they were evidently proud of.
62
Diversity
1/8 sec at f/10 ISO 100
Bangkok 11/1/18 6:07:38PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
At the famous street food scene on Soi 38, now eradicated by condo construction. Blown-out highlights, or intensity of gaze?
63
Pain Clinic
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Lamphun 1/15/18 6:51:42PM
Sony Alpha 6500 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
A long wait, after a long day.
8 Wind
64
Horse
4.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/28/16 5:35:51PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Taken care of by a restaurant next door, now closed; the spirit house still exists, but the garlands and the red horse are gone.
65
Camouflage
3.2 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/9/16 6:24:54PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
In Bangkok, the wind always rises just before sunset.
66
Gift
8.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/11/16 6:33:29PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Made by shooting through the bars of a fence as the dusk wind rattled the dry leaves. A rail-thin gentleman in shorts and flip-flops passed by and dropped a candy bar into my open camera bag.
67
Nang Mai (1)
13 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 12/17/18 5:51:31PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
A lady came from the soi to ask me—I had to use Paiboon’s Talking Thai<>English Dictionary on my iPad to translate for us—if I was “scared.” At the time, I thought she meant that it was dark and the area was rough, but now I think she was asking if I was scared of the spirits.
68
Muzzle
1/3 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayuttayah 3/26/17 3:43:55PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
What rough beast.
69
Roots
8.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/29/18 6:31:47PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The property is being prepared for construction, and so the trees were cut down, but still the spirits of the trees were appeased, perhaps.
70
Fronds
1.6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangok 4/5/16 6:04:09PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Symmetry that is never quite symmetrical.
71
Straw
1/5 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Pattaya 4/22/16 5:30:40PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Room at the inn.
72
Post Office
6.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 5/17/2017 6:43:38PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
This spirit house cannot be seen from the street, but has a caretaker (because the garlands and fabric are not faded) but not a daily one (because there is no food, drink, or incense for the spirit).
9 Progress
73
Tinted Glass
1/30 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayutthaya 1/15/17 4:46:01 PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Inadvertently, a selfie.
74
Pools
0.4 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 12/15/18 3:25:55PM
Sony QX1 + Rokinon T-S 24mm f/3.5 ED
A house and garden shop.
75
History
0.4 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Ayutthaya 1/13/17 4:29:07PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The Burmese sack of 1767, re-enacted with a packet of firecrackers?
76
Chicken
0.8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Even today, teak houses.
77
Bank Branch
1/80 sec at f/22 ISO 200
Chiang Mai
Sony Alpha 6500 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
78
Balance
1.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 1/19/18 6:02:56PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
Hugz Mall, the anchor tenant for Khon Kaen’s only condo tower.
79
Aspirations
1.6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 1/20/18 6:32:28PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
I don’t know why the mannequins are white, or blonde.
80
“Lump Sum Chicken Rice”
1/4 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 2/11/17
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Few restaurants in Bangkok stay shiny for long.
81
Black Hole
8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkoo 5/3/19 2:47:31AM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
Black tarp.
10 Speed
82
The Good Grandmother
1/20 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Pattaya 4/21/16 5:02:14PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The site has been bulldozed. This photograph may be the only record.
83
Seating
1/30 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Lamphun 2/21/14 5:45:32
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Perhaps the chair’s owner will arrive shortly.
84
School’s Out
1/6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 11/20/17 5:05:11PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
Blurred student in yellow uniform, with backpack. And no helmet.
85
End of Shift
1/8 sec at f/7.1 ISO 125
Bangkok 3/17/19 6:13:31PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Motosai driver rests on a bench in the shade of a tree blessed by a red pillow, framed by a blurred song taew going to pick up workers at a nearby building site and take them back to their camps.
86
“Happy New Year”
6.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 1/7/19 6:47:29AM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Guards present, but busy directing traffic.
87
S.R.T.
1/25 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 12/5/17 7:57:19PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Blurred container train.
88
Tree
2.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Lamphun 2/19/2018 6:27:15PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 25mm F2
Made in the middle of the side street that joined the main road at the tree; the drivers courteously maneuvered around me, even though it was dusk, and I must have been hard to see.
89
Rope Lights
30.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 12/22/16 6:30:17PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
Made on a wooden platform bridging a khlong, which I realized was a driveway only when a car pulled into it.
90
“Wong Manufacturing”
13.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 10/15/16 7:57:10PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
A motosai station, feeding the tide of pedestrians from a nearby BTS station “upstream,” deeper into the arteries and capillaries of the sois.
11 Thailand Today
91
Gecko
13.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 5/5/17 6:59:17PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
There is only one gecko, although the long exposure makes it look like there are two.
92
Private Property
30 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 4/8/18 6:51:13PM
Made at the brakelight hour on Sukhumvit Soi 40, shooting across the khlong (hence the greenery).
93
Facets
0.6 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 10/17/16 5:10:12PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Traffic jam on Sukhumvit reflected in the glass. This is the only Spirit House I have ever seen that’s been constructed from sheet metal and integrated into a building.
94
Drill
1/8 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 11/8/17 3:10:20PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
The careful grid reduced to shards.
95
Nang Mai (2)
20 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 5/3/16 6:43:59PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Made in a flourishing garden at the end of Soi 38, maintained and improved for many years by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration street-sweeping ladies, and with a late-night clandestine water source from city trucks; surely under somebody’s protection. But no longer; soon to be eradicated by condo development.
96
Glamour
1.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Khon Kaen 5/6/17 5:58:30PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Spirit house spotted while taking a tuk-tuk to my hotel. I found it later on Google Maps Street View, and came back, just as the wind was rising before rain.
97
“Best”
10.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Bangkok 12/31/17 6:21:42PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
My sophisticated, cosmopolitan Thai friend shivered when she saw the joke.
98
Maya Lifestyle Shopping Center
15.0 sec at f/22 ISO 100
Chiang Mai 2/28/18 7:32:18PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 85mm F1.8
Phra Phikanet is indeed the god of trade.
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Axe
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Chiang Mai 3/10/17 5:48:20PM
Sony QX1 + Zeiss 50mm F2.8
Dreaming of Thailand.