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Carla Pires
{K:10713} 10/15/2003
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Very nice shot! Congrats! :)
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Marusnik Bela
{K:11611} 6/3/2003
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Very good capture.Congrats!
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Érico Salutti
{K:884} 5/30/2003
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Bela foto, parabéns.
Érico Salutti, São Paulo - Brasil.
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Ben Rasmussen
{K:2130} 5/19/2003
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great shot. captures the moment excelently and the colors are very nice.
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Andre Cajot
{K:7793} 4/19/2003
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The best rating for the first member of Usefilm (with Al and Dave), still there today!
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Anindya Maity
{K:7880} 11/24/2002
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This is one EC which I can't seem to agree with.To me this is nothing but a very run of the mill travel photo satisfying only some curiosity about Bangkok.Plus the building to the left doesn't gel with the rest of the pic.i may be wrong ,of course.
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Marc Gougenheim
{K:5398} 11/24/2002
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Hi, Bill. Here too, I couldn't pass without leaving a comment. The Wat Phra Keo in Bangkok is an absolutely amazing place, and everywhere you look, there is Beauty of this kind. You walk through and you are surrounded by it. I have shot exactly this area of the royal palace a few times. Each time, it took me something like half an hour searching for the best possible angle... These figures are actually surrounding a kind of squarish chedi, and they are guardians if I remember well. You would want to show this surrounding factor, but obviously you can't with a camera. So what to do ? Just what you did. I have the same shot and have seen the same shot a thousand times. :-) I know for a fact that there are ways to get a better background there. Besides that, I tried another totally different angle - just 1 single guardian in the frame, as a vertical format... I thought it was a lss of the "surrounding" effect for sure, but would work as a sort of portrait... Well, it turned out "ok", and surely nothing more than that, and I found out later that the same "portrait" approcah was already everywhere as well...:-) So, the question is: what shall we do in such over-photographed places ? Well, it all depends. If you shot this with the idea of selling it, you would need to be very luck to find a buyer. If you meant this as a record, it's a decent record. If you meant this to be artistic, I think you failed. I am comfortable telling you this because I've been there and failed just the same to do anything more than recording the beauty I saw in an imperfect way. The photographer's art is to ADD beauty to what he sees, and to match the 2 beauties in an harmonious result. I have never managed to do so on this particular area of the Royal Palace. I think I did a bit better in other areas. It took me 3 days walking around the place, to in the end sell 2 miserable images out of about a hundred clicks. I rated this a 5. I would rate any of my attempts on this subject a 5 as well. So please don't take this the wrong way, but if you ever visited the "Photo-Bank" in Bangkok, of if you had seen some of the best images available of this place, you would most certainly agree with me. Best regards.
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Cathy Heidemann
{K:2} 7/17/2001
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Amazing image.
I'd like to talk to you about using it for a presentation on Thailand I have to make ... if you could email me privately at heidemca@webster.edu we could discuss ...
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Terry Stevenson
{K:154} 5/3/2001
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WOW! I absolutely love the color.
Good job!!
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Artie Colantuono
{K:12275} 4/9/2001
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Beautiful image Bill, very well done.
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al shaikh
{K:15790} 4/8/2001
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The choice of the 28mm really makes this image jump off the page due to the perspective. I think really nailed it bill.
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al shaikh
{K:15790} 2/7/2001
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Bangkok is so alive with color, such craftsmanship.
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