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.

one last look at the sydney harbour bridge.

I took this picture on my last morning in Sydney before I headed for the airport on my way back to Bangkok. And with this I end my series on Australia.

on oxford street

view of cbd from my hotel

sydney winter

waiting for lunch

Teddybears, Mermaids and Rubber Ducks

Last month there was a call for submission for and online exhibition being mounted by Photomedia Center entitled "The Holga Show". Fortunately when I visited Australia last August, I was spending more time using my Holga because it was the lightest camera to take around. Out of the 8 photographs I submitted to the Photomedia Center, they had chosen 1. I was so happy about this because this is the first time I am participating in an online show with credits being given to my name. I had been looking at the website of Photomedia Center the last few days and finally late last night I checked again and The Holga Show had been posted so I looked for my name in the list of 50 photographers chosen and clicked my name only to find out the final surprise......Teddybears, Mermaids and Rubber Ducks had been chosen Best of Show: Color. I rubbed my eyes to make sure that it is true! I was happy enough to be included in the exhibit but very thankful that the photograph I had sent was chosen Best of Show in its category. You can see the show following this link...The Holga Show