wat ratchapruek

at the courtyard

the tower

golden pumpkin

wat ratchapreuk at night

dummy couple in b&w

under the shade of the singh

emerald buddha of the chiangmai walking street

self portrait of a street artist

little girl xylophone player

grandma frog maker

zombie dolls

15 baht noodle
she is actually selling grilled meats but the sign says 15 baht noodle.

flower bed

umbrella 1

umbrella 2

star hill

waiting to enter

red bamboo

tourist bus

green bottles

dummy couple 2

corn trees

more wat ratchapruek pics

shrub hill

the pool

tortoise on the playground

little boy in the garden

dummy couple

dotted hill
the designers of the horticultural fair must have been geometrically obsessed!

yellow fence
I rolled the film forward too much so to salvage the shot I took a photo of the same place so in the off chance that the frames overlap, then I have a panoramic photo. As with any picture taken with Holga, you never know what to expect. The frames did not overlap but the fence were more or less aligned. So I decided to make it into one photograph.

blue bowl

mushroom head
One of the installations at Shin Corp.

south africa garden

honeycomb hill
there were a couple of hills with different patterns. this one looked like a honeycomb

wat ratchapreuk

wishing tree

On the way to the wat was an umbrella like structure with strings of brass coloured bo tree leaves where people had written good wishes for HM the King. It was gleaming in the afternoon sun.

chonburi garden
the most special portion of the chonburi garden was the waterfall garden they had constructed beside the traditional thai house. I just took the waterfall feature working hard to estimate that the water plants in the foreground are taken in as this was no longer visible in the Holga's viewfinder.

birds 1

birds 2

these installations were right across from each other. The colorful one was in the shin corp garden. The planning and initial execution of the Rachapruek fair was initiated in the tenure of the Thaksin government. Unfortunately, events in September had changed everything. Shin Corp. is the company that his family sold to Temasek in Singapore which precipitated the downfall of the government. But the colourful birds caught my eye. Across are white birds in the middle of artificial mist. It was one of the provincial gardens which I now forget. I should really be taking notes when I do this.

carpet of flowers
the corporate gardens were not so bad either. I love the splash of colors on this one.

the belgian garden

This is the first time that Thailand is holding a horticultural show. I think it was a good first time. However, I was expecting it to be similar to the Chelsea garden show where there will be garden competitions from world renowned garden designers. But this did not seem to happen. I was able to visit most of the gardens sponsored by the different countries. I think this was the best garden in the Rachapruek fair. It was very modern and it is making a bold statement. My only disappointment was that I thought a bigger space was given to this garden. Imagine if the Belgian contribution was given a bigger plot of land that a much more edgy garden would have been done. I will be posting several pictures taken with my Holga during the next few days.