Fisherman's family

I was riding motorcycle on a dirt road in the campaign near Nong Khai. I stopped on a bridge and i noticed that some people were fishing. They waved at me. I took it as an invitation, so i found the way to get there to see the catch of the day.
 

Amazingly, all the family live on this boat.

 They  asked me to visit  the house (boat)

Gutter Man

The gutter man

In Thailand, there is a big hardware stores as big as our Home Depot or Home Hardware. Curiously they don't have gutter and rain control system in stock.
So we had to call the gutter man in Nong Khai who is a family owned and operated rain control systems design and installation company. I was pretty amazed to see how they work and how they fold all the pieces of metal to deliver the product. Everything is hand made.

See by yourself...

Flying over Thailand - january 22 2010

This was in january 2010. I went to visit a friend from USA in Bangkok. He introduced me to Ed which is a
pilot. He offered me to go with him to flight in Cambodia over the killing fields.

 The pilot had begun to inflate  the envelope by opening the burner

 The pilot checked the weather three times before departure.

 They are gone

 During most of the flight, the weather was favourable, but toward the end of the flight the pilot was monitoring some unfavourable weather conditions east of his flight path.
After leaving the outskirts of the temple, the pilot attempted to land several times in different fields but chose to overshoot because of the wind speed and unfavourable ground conditions or obstacles.
Which was only a test flight supposed to land and return, finally last 5 hours.

This was near Pattaya,january 22th 2010.

Weekly tips and trick - Sharpening blurred images

Sharpening blurred images

 

This is a very simple trick to sharpen efficiency blurred images.
I am using Photoshop Cs5 but this can be use in any previous version.

1- After open the image, create a layer by doing Ctrl+a   Ctrl+c   and   Ctrl+v 
2- Use the HighPass Filter
3- (Fig.1) Menu - Image - Adjustments - Curves.  Edit curves  and make a dot at 25% low and 25% of high

4-Stil in the curves

5- Menu - Image - Adjustments - Brightness and contrast
Add a little brightness (if necessary)  and much contrast

6- From the layer palette, apply the overlay

This is the result

Here, an other example for high pass filter

 The original picture

Working People in Issan - typical outdoor kitchen

Working people

In Issan, most of the people cook outside. This is a typical outdoor kitchen. Also, most of the time, they sell food and drinks and other goods to turns into a convenience store. Not much money earned, but in poor villages, all extra money is more than welcome.

 She always invited me every time i passed in front and greeted me while passing on a motorbike.

Here, she is preparing Som tam sometimes called papaya pok pok! It is a spicy papaya salad.

The dish combines the four main tastes of the local cuisine: sour lime, hot chili, salty, savory fish sauce, and sweetness added by palm sugar.
The ingredients are mixed and pounded in a mortar.(source: Wikipedia)

Working people in Issan - preparing the bamboo

May 2012

 Working people

 

in Issan, in a small village named Kai Bok Wan. They are preparing th bamboo to make a rice pot, long work to prepare it. Here all the family is helping to prepare the bamboo by cutting it into half centimeters by 30 cm

May 2012

May 2012

Wisaka Bucha day

is the most important religious holiday in the Buddhist calendar. It celebrates the birth, enlightenment and passing away of the Buddha. According to the Theravada Buddhist traditions observed in South East Asian countries.

The celebrations took place in every city in Thailand. I was in Nong Khai that day and i have been impressed by the quality of the event. I was in the morning in downtown tried  to figure out about the preparations and the meanning of it. 

Here some pictures(click to enlarge):

Thanks for viewing!