The Photography of Dr. Jeffrey P. Harper

I spent the day at Chatuchak Week-end Market . . . along with a couple of hundred thousand other people. It is an amazing place: 35 acres of over 5000 stalls with everything on earth for sale.  It is just an interesting place.

The narrow isles fill up as the day goes along.  Around 200,000 people visit on an average Saturday.

In addition to the shopping, there are some pretty good places to eat Thai "street food" . . .  and take wonderful photographs.

The weather was not too hot today, but the sun was very strong.

My daughter, Kirsten is visiting and she enjoys the shopping at Chatuchak (called "JJ Market" by the Thais). Nice Magritte touch on this display, no?

Entertainers abound: There are young Thai traditional music buskers too. This boy was very good.

All kinds of buskers: this xelephone orchestra was very good.

A Thai clown musician.

He was happy, but couldn't really sing or play his guitar.

Chatuchak is a photographer's paradise . . . especially if you like color and pattern studies.

Color and pattern . . . .

Color and pattern . . .

Color and pattern.

I'm afraid this shop keeper has had too much color and pattern.

I think this fellow has had more than too much color and pattern.

There were too many interesting things to see and photograph.

And I learned one very important global political lesson today: there are indicators that the Islamic Revolution may be coming to an end soon.  I just get that feeling.

I noticed a new flower in my garden this rainy Sunday morning: a yellow tropical Iris.  It lasts only one day.

Very tiny flower that lasts only one day.

The "Damn Hot and Damn Wet" season has been damn wet this year.  The banana trees are in full bloom.  Like this one.

I do not seem to be able to walk by my Lotus jars without taking a photograph.  They are still so very amazing to me. I have a million photos of the Lotus Blossom.  Why not?

Yep, I celebrated my 5th Cycle (60th birthday) on October 10, 2010 (10/10/10), a day I have been anticipating since my 10th birthday (10 on October 10th).  It was a wonderful day spent with family and friends at the Rang Mahal restaurant atop the Rembrandt Hotel in Bangkok.

Yep, you guessed it: it's 10:10:10 on 10/10/10 . . . . a rare moment.

With my wonderful wife, Onchittra, and her brother Vechai's family.

The whole group of family and friends at the Rang Mahal, one of my favorite restaurants in Bangkok.

The table.  If you can imagine a five star Indian BUFFET, then you understand the attraction of the Rang Mahal . . . .

The Birthday Boy and Bangkok on 10/10/10.

A fun thing to do in Bangkok when friends visit is to take a long-tail boat tour of the Bangkok klongs (canals).

I am just back from a three day week-end in Singapore, a city I lived in during 1988.

They have a knack for organizational ideas in Singapore . . . not all of them are winners across the genders.

I came for the food and photography.  Here I am in front of the Hua Yu Wee seafood palace. It doesn't look like much . . . but . . . . . .

. . . the chili crab was from heaven.  Devine!

It was also Moon Cake Festival time in Singapore.

Moon cake comes in all kinds of flavors, fillings, and types.

Part of the fascination with moon cakes are the boxes they come in . . .  the boxes scream, "Special!"

The boxes are often very beautiful.

We brought along an extra suitcase along just so we could bring back the very best moon cake available in Singapore for family and friends back in Bangkok (where, my wife says, the moon cake is inferior).