Upload a day week 7, February 12 – 18

In this post there are only photos from Thailand and even two of them are since 2008 that I found while going through my older photos.

February 12th
When I was on my way from Bangkok to Khon Kaen I was looking outside my window and once when we were stopped at a red light I saw these workers outside, doing something for the road. Usually people that do work like this are covered with a cloth or they have a hat on that also covers their face, sometimes they even use a skie mask. I often wonder how they can use it because it is really hot outside and they still use a thick hat like this. I think it is so the sun wont damaged their skin as much or maybe they don’t want people to see who they are. I think this must be hard to work in the sun like this.

February 13th
On my way to Bangkok We stopped at a lake to walk around a little so our feet would not hurt because we had been sitting for a while. There were some boats on the lake and it was a really nice place to stop and get refreshed

February 14th
When I was in Koh Larn island close to Pattaya I went to the beach and there I saw all these piles of something on the sand. What I first thought was “dog shit” but then quickly I realized that it was just sand that the crabs that live on the beach had pushed out of the holes that they were making. These crabs are really small and when you stay still and just look at the sand it seems like the beach is moving but when it is actually just hundreds of crabs walking around. When you walk on the beach they all run into their holes to hide.

February 15th
This is photo has the same story as the one before but it was taken just seconds before the photo uploaded the day before.

February 16th
This photo was taken on a trip in 2008, we went to the south part of Thailand to visit my father-in-law’s family. We met two of his brothers and his mother. One of the nights we stayed at a really special hotel. It was located on the lake that was made by a big dam. We had to take a boat to get to the hotel and then we went on a trip on the lake to see the mountains. Everything was covered with trees, it was just amazing to go there. In the afternoon we swam in the lake and it was even batter than swimming in a swimming pool because nothing in the water to keep it clean and it was warm and nice.

February 17th
This photo was as well taken in 2008 while on a small bike trip around my girlfriend’s village. There is a lake on one end of the village and there some people go to swim on a hot sunny day. We were there in the afternoon and I was lucky enough to see this fly holding onto a straw. I was lucky that it had not become to dark since I was not using a good lens at that time.




February 18th
I went traveling with the family and we bought a box full of Vietnamese food in a town close to the boarders to Laos and when we were back home we invited friends over to eat with us. I thought it was a really special moment when everyone were trying to get some food, grabbing onto what ever they can get.

Upload a day week 6, February 5 – 11

February 5th
I went on a trip with my dad and we were going to find a bat that had been seen on a farm not that far from my town but we were unlucky because we could not find it. So we went on a road trip, we went to a place called Stokksnes and it’s even closer to my town. There were big waves all around the place. I have always been fascinated about this place and so are many tourists as well.

February 6th
This is a photo of the boat Ásgrímur on its way back home to Höfn full of Capelin that is sold to Japan to make sushi. I never knew that when I am eating sushi in Thailand that it could possibly be a fish caught by my home town.

February 7th
This is a camel in a zoo not far from Khon Kaen I don’t remember the name of the zoo at the moment. Always when I see a camel, which has been three or four times, I always think of the cigarettes, not sure why. I have always been a bit curious about camels, maybe because when I was young I always wanted to go to Egypt and I still would like to go there some day.

February 8th
This is the cat in the food court in Khon Kaen, I saw him there several times. There are some cats and dogs that stay there hoping to get food from the visitors. When I saw it first, it was sleeping on the table and I wanted to see if I could get a photo of a sleeping cat so when I was close I just started taking photos because I was sure it would wake up and I was right, just when I was in a good spot it rose up and opened it’s eyes and stared at me for few second’s then I was not as interesting anymore so it went away.

February 9th
This is one of my micro tests, when I’m in Thailand I always want to photograph the small things as well but to do so I need to turn my lens around to make it into a macro. I hope I will be able to buy a macro lens soon.

February 10th and February 11th
This is my top favorite model. We went to a public balcony of our apartment building and took some fashion photos. It was a lot of fun, I tried some with my new reflector.

Upload a day week 5, January 29 – February 04

I guess I just always wait until the end of the month to start posting in the end of the month. This past month I have been working a lot and there were few days when I was not sure if I would be able to post a photo but it for some reason I always managed to upload a photo a day. I just hope next month will be as good. I will make every week separated like I did in January and the posts will be come in the next day’s.

January 29th
This photo was taken at the same time as the two photos from 27th and 28th. She was working on the rice fields with another woman. My girlfriend asked her if it would be ok if I would take a photo of here and she said it was fine so she looked up to me. I like this photo because it shows how old people still do work in the fields. When I look at her hands I think they are so big comparing to how small and slim she is.

January 30th
This is a farm inside Bangkok, it does not seem to be in a big city like Bangkok because there are not that many tall buildings around. There were workers harvesting some vegetables there and getting ready for the market I assume.

January 31st
This photo was taken close to the park Sanam Luang park in a middle of a traffic island

February 1st
I went to a traditional market that I think was close to Siam shopping center in Bangkok and there I saw this old man making lollypops and selling almost instantly. I have seen several of these lollypop makers before and some of the lollypops they make are a work of art. This one was mostly making them around but some make them in many different shapes and once I saw a man making it look like a fisherman with a fishing rod and a fish was hooked on the rod.

February 2nd
In Bangkok there are many post boxes and they are marked for either Bangkok or Other places. I have not seen this before, probably because I’m not always looking at post boxes but at least we don’t have anything like this here in Iceland but maybe that’s because I only have a small fraction of the amount that is delivered in Bangkok.

February 3rd
This is a statue at the end of a stairs in Wat Arun one of many beautiful statue’s in this temple.

February 4th
This is my favorite Isan dish, Isan sausage or sai krok Isan like it’s called. It is a spicy sausage but not to hot for my taste. I usually eat it with a lot of rice because it is a bit heavy for the stomach to eat without anything else. This is something that I would recommend for everyone to try some day.