Bangkok Insider Photo Workshop

I had a really nice day yesterday, wandering through some of my favourite Bangkok photo haunts during a Bangkok Insider Photo Tour. The Pak Klong Talat market has become a much-loved location and I can never resist a visit there but I really appreciated the market traders’ gentle generosity even more than usual yesterday.

I had the pleasure of young Julie’s company yesterday and perhaps it was her winning smile that prompted the stall holders to offer her tomatoes, coriander, mangosteens, lucky amulets and, in one touching moment, a quite beautiful orchid stem. Perhaps it was the good karma I stored up at the weekend when Matt and David had gone off to shoot in the market and I helped what at first appeared to be a frail, old man unload his truck of baskets of bananas. Extremely heavy baskets! And although he was undoubtedly old he was no more frail than I am. Either way, people smiled and greeted us with great generosity yesterday and I was reminded that there really can’t be many nicer places to photograph than Bangkok on a good day.

The first of the photos below is Copyright Julie Claydon © 2009 and shows the lovely lady who gave Julie an orchid. It’s one of those “I wish I’d taken that” pictures and I think it really captures the lady’s dignified personality well. The rest of the pictures are mine.

Posted on Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 at 8:00 pm. Filed under: Workshops Tags: bangkok, market RSS 2.0 feed.