A Snippet of Gay Life in Thailand
Sawadee Khrap
Chai came back to Pattaya, but will be headed to Phuket in the morning – his team decided to go there where they expect more tourist. but he says he plans of coming back to Pattaya sometime in Dec - These are from todays shoot – he wanted some new images to give to his mother so it was a quick session.
Great looking young man.
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Sawadee Khrap
Introducing “Ink†Maybe you’ve seen him around Jontiem Beach ! Great model and super nice guy.
I have been toying with the idea of putting a password-protected area around many of the images I post, making them available only to those who post comments – but the last post of Tom’s photos drew 5 comments so I will not burden you guys with this inconvenience – but please try to post comments so I know someone cares and wants to see more of the great local Pattaya young men. That’s my inspiration – beyond the boys that is.
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Sawadee Khrap
As follow-up for those who asked, here’s a few more shots of Tom.
Hopefully more to come when he approves.
Didn’t get many comments asking for more posting of photos – maybe no one is watching – maybe I need to post a private link so only the ones who comment can see all the photo taken and approved by Tom from this shoot and others to come – any ideas?
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Sawadee Khrap
Just had a friend come over today and we did some images (500 or so) – Here is a teaser – I’m doing the post-processing now and will need to get his permission to post more images of this young man- if he agrees I’ll post images based it on the number of comments I receive – posting more if your interested. Let me know.
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Sawadee Khrap
David, a friend of mine in Chiang Mai, had this great sculpture of a young boy casted in bronze by a French artist. (didn’t get his name, but the statue was almost 3 foot long, and heavy) in his back yard. 2 years ago it was stolen and I think I have the only photos of it left. This is a combination (painting) of several photos montaged for a more dramatic image. Hope you like it David.
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Sawadee Khrap
This is a 17X25 inch digital painting of my favorite place just North of Fang on the way to Chiang Rai = Thaton. This is the Kok River, and it used to be the boundary of Thailand/Burma but now is considered Thailand, However many of the people on the western or left side still speak Burmese.
Too bad this small posted image doesn’t show the painting details like the full sized print – here it tends to look like a photo but the printed version is very hand-painted life like. This is a full size portion of the printed version.
It was produced using several filters and embossing in CS6 Photoshop – I cannot post the full size here but if someone is interested, I will see what I can do for them to get a copy
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Sawadee Khrap
Here are a couple of diverse techniques. 
I love the photo of the little boy from the refugee camp, great shot of determination, climbing obstacles. More of a outline and cartoon effect but I think it adds a degree of importance to the shot. And the second is a painting effect utilizing greater brush stroke definition than the ones I did before.
Sunday I went to my first meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club and plan to go back next week – Sunday’s meeting had a nature photographer (ian Frame) showing his work – great presentation of macro work in the insect world. The club is also trying to re-spark their Photo Group and for it I volunteered to present some information on using Lightroom and Photoshop. We’ll see what happens and post later.
In addition there is also a Pattaya Expats Club meeting at the same time each Sunday – not sure who broke from who, I’ll get that info and let you know. I’ll try to attend this group in a couple of weeks.
A lot is going on, getting my schedule filled again – relaxing on the beach is nice but the chairs are starting to make my back ache , so I also need to get back to my stretching exercises. – always something,
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Sawadee Khrap
Just going through my catalog of photos and came across this image of Wat Rong Khun (Thai: วัดร่à¸à¸‡à¸‚ุ่น) a contemporary unconventional Buddhist and Hindu temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand. It was designed by Chalermchai Kositpipat. Retouched with CS6.
I plan to go through my old catalogs and post some of the better shots I have. If you are looking for a particular place or area in Thailand make me a comment and I’ll try to post what I have. My first month in Thailand I rented a van and driver/guide and traveled over 8,000 Km photographing – major cities and attractions.
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Sawadee Khrap
Here is some of my recent paintings from my photos around Thailand. These experimentations use Photoshop or DAP (Dynamic Auto Painter) to achieve some special or painterly effects.
I tried several different techniques or combinations of programs to get the final results – subjects are from my photos around Chiang Mai – Painting #3 is a combination of several photos but the house on stilts comes from a recent trip to Sattahip here in Pattaya.
As always – COMMENTS are appreciated. Here are my original photos that I used:
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Sawadee Khrap
I think this is a better version of the runner (Colin Costello) I made for Pat in Ireland.
Although the other background did set him off – I believe this version showing the other racers add to the story being told in the image – comments ??
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Sawadee Khrap
A little different version – painting and photograph combined.
I think I needed to adjust the background photo to be just a little smaller to add to the perspective and then increase the shadow cast by the painting, still looks floating. – Any suggestions. This is my first attempt at this kind of illusion and as you can see I have a lot to learn. But at least the main idea shows through. Thanks Pat for a great image to play with.
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Sawadee Khrap
Pat from Ireland sent me a couple of his images for me to try CS6 painting effects on. Here are the originals:
and here are the paintings from them. I tried to show action and emotion and to emphasize the main subjects. I tried several effects from the new “Oil Painting†to sketching layers and the new mixing brushes. Comments appreciated:
What do you think – I am getting better Pat is going to try and have them printed in a local Running Magazine – and send me a copy, that would be nice. I’ll tell ya, Photography and Photoshop make a great hobby and one that I can bring to any event and have fun.
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Sawadee Khrap
Talking to Aod and some of the other boys – the beach can be a 
scary very scary place. Right now it’s Low, low season and most of the farangs have gone home, just the hangers on – not sweet pickings – so give us a break when you come to visit and remember what we have to go through during the LOW season. Be generous.
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Sawadee Khrap
Aod stopped by yesterday and we had a little Photoshop fun. Got some new photos and showed him the emails that you guys sent in 
about his previous images – he really liked them and says he looks forward to meeting you when you visit Pattaya next time and will send you a email back. Be sure and look for him on Jontiem Beach.
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Sawadee Khrap
Say hello to “Top†and if you are in Sunee, look him up.
This image is a combination of CS6 “Oil painting†filter and Bert Monroy’s technique. I like the combination of the two effects. I really like the brush effects from the oil paint filter – now to explore different settings – I think using varying brush sizes in different areas for greater emphasis using layers and masks would do the trick.
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