Workplace Hazards!
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Wildlife Photography
The Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko) is one of the most commonly encountered reptiles in Southeast Asia (This one is from Thailand, near the Burmese border). They frequent houses and man-made structures, coming out at night to hunt for insects and smaller geckos. They are quite enormous for a gecko, reaching lengths over a foot long!
Hear about and even see what this guy did to my finger, after the jump…. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: assignment, gecko, Lighting, lizard, macro, portrait, reptile, strobist, thailand, travel, Wildlife
More from Khao Sok National Park, Thailand
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under On Assignment, Travel Photography
Unfortunately we were only able to spend a single night in the amazing Khao Sok National Park. This is my friend Tom, just as we arrived at the floating bungalows, setting up his 6×17 panoramic camera, racing against the fading light to capture the magical ambience of the sheltered lagoon.
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Tags: flash, Khao Sok, Landscape, thailand, travel, Travel Photography
Khao Sok National Park – Thailand
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under On Assignment, People Photography, Photojournalism & Story Telling, Travel Photography
One of the major features we wanted to explore in Thailand were the abundance of national parks spread across the country. Thailand is well known for its well equipped national parks, many of them complete with luxury bungalows and modern conveniences.
Khao Sok National Park is enormous. The whole park covers 645 sq km – the heart of a complex of five contiguous conservation sites that comprise the largest protected forest on the Thai-Malaysian peninsula, covering over 4,000 sq km.
A one hour long boat ride from the National park headquarters is one of the most amazing experiences i had in Thailand. We were lucky enough to experience it just before sunset, as the spectacular limestone outcrops which protude from the lake’s surface (some as tall as 960m!) were set against a dramatic cloudscape.
We spent the night in a series of floating bunglaows, far, far away from the hum of the city.
An experience not to be missed!
Tags: Khao Sok, southeast asia, story, thailand, travel
Muay Thai Photos
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under On Assignment, People Photography, Photojournalism & Story Telling, Travel Photography
Recently i spent about 6 weeks in Thailand, of which about 2 weeks were spent documenting the Thai Boxing scene in Thailand’s second largest city, Chiang Mai. Located in Thailand’s north, relatively close to Burma (Myanmar) and Laos, Chiang Mai is a a cosmopolitan city, rich in culture and a hub of the Thai Boxing scene in Northern Thailand.
The National sport of Thailand, Thai Boxing (Muay Thai) permeates Thai culture in a similar way that Australian Rules Football does here in Australia. There is one major difference however, and that is that like Western boxing, Thai boxing is viewed as a ‘poor man’s sport’, whereby the Thai bourgeois shuns the seemingly violent and archaic brutality of the sport.
Young boxers live and breath Muay Thai, training 6 hours each day, 6 days a week and after seeing the way these guys work, how they push their bodies to the limit, the tuly must be some of the most athletic people on the planet!
Tags: assignment, boxing, muay thai, photojournalism, thailand, travel
