While doing keyword research for search engine optimizing of my website BKK Tours and this site, BKK Photography, I was looking at the trend of the keywords Bangkok Tour.
It is clearly seen that the trend is down at the moment, with the political unrest here in April and May people unfortunately start to look elsewhere. Good news is that the demonstrations and unrest have ended and Bangkok is peaceful again. Hopefully things keep stable. With a local guide, who knows his way around and is up to date with the local news, it was easy to avoid avoid the hotspots. The hotspots have disappeared, but if you feel more secure it may be a good idea to have a local guide showing you around.
Thailand and Bangkok have some great places to be discovered and beautiful people to be met. A large group of Thai people depend on the tourist business, please join us, and others, to have a wonderful Thai experience again with our custom made photo tours. With a local guide, who knows all the good places and avoids the typical tourist problems, you will optimize your result from your valuable trip. With our local rates you will receive personal service at a most reasonable value. Hope to see you soon in beautiful Thailand. Please use the contact form to contact us about the possibilities.
All photos of the Munmaak Graham City to Coast rally 2010 are online in the BKK Photography gallery.
Rally organizer
Title sponsor
Gold sponsors
Nitto Tires- CoffeeWORKS – WAC Car Detailing – Rush Magazine – KW Suspension – Singha – Shell
An impressive starting grid for the rally of this year:
Porsche 993, Nissan GT-R, Porsche 993 Targa, Lamborghini Murcielago, Aston Martin DB9, Porsche Cayenne Turbo, Porsche Cayman, Porsche 964, Nissan 370 Z, Lexus SC430, Audi R8, Mercedes SLK, Honda Civic Sport, Lotus Elise, Jaguar S-Type R, Audi TT, Lotus Esprit, BMW M3 E93, Porsche Boxter, Ferrari F430, Porsche Carrera, Toyota Vios, Subaru STI Wide body, Mercedes CLK, Porsche Cayman S, Ferrari F430 Novitec, Volkswagen Passat V5, Maserati 3200 GT
Links to the galleries
Favorites Gallery – Slide show
Friday Dinner Party Gallery – Slide show
Start at Central World Gallery – Slide show
On The Road Gallery – Slide show
Lunch at Kirimaya Gallery – Slide show
At Shell Khao Yai Gallery – Slide show
At Shell Chonburi Gallery – Slide show
Awards Gallery – Slide show
The 2010 Munmaak Rally, a 400 km drive across Thailand, starting in Bangkok and finishing in Pattaya incorporating a stop in Khao Yai took place on Saturday 23 January 2010. BKK Photography had the great pleasure to join rally organizer Dave in his Maserati. See the Munmaak website for further details.
Beside more then 1000 photo’s some video’s were taken during the rally.
Rally organizer
Title sponsor
Gold sponsors
Nitto Tires
CoffeeWORKS
WAC Car Detailing
Rush Magazine
KW Suspension
Singha
Shell
The 2010 Munmaak Rally, a 400 km drive across Thailand, starting in Bangkok and finishing in Pattaya incorporating a stop in Khao Yai will take place tomorrow, Saturday 23 January 2010. BKK Photography is invited to cover the event again. See the Munmaak website for further details.
Rally organizer
Title sponsor
Gold sponsors
Nitto Tires
CoffeeWORKS
WAC Car Detailing
Rush Magazine
KW Suspension
Singha
Shell
Nikon has released new firmware versions for the following models D300S, D700, D3 and D3X. The firmware is available on Nikon’s firmware page.
Just upgraded my D700 to version 1.02 without any problems.
Updates for the D700 as indicated by Nikon:
- Auto white balance performance has been improved.
- Support for 64 GB memory cards has been added.
- When ISO sensitivity settings>ISO sensitivity auto control in the shooting menu is set to On, the Maximum sensitivity option can now be specified in steps of 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV or 1 EV, according to the Custom Setting b1 ISO sensitivity step value setting.
- The length of time the camera waits before adjusting focus in response to sudden changes in the distance to the subject can now be selected from 5 (Long), 4, 3 (Normal), 2, and 1 (Short) from Custom Setting a4 Focus tracking with lock-on. With the increase in the number of options for Custom Setting a4 Focus tracking with lock-on, this item will be set to 3 (Normal) after firmware upgrade. Adjust this setting as needed.
- When the camera’s AF-ON button is pressed, the monitor turns off and a focus point can now be selected using the multi selector.
- When the MB-D10 AF-ON button is pressed (with AF-ON selected for Custom Setting a10 AF-ON for MB-D10), the monitor now turns off and a focus point can be selected using the multi selector.
- A Use GPS to set camera clock item has been added to the GPS item in the setup menu. When Yes is selected, date and time information acquired via connection to a GPS device is used to set the camera’s internal clock. After selecting Yes for the first time, turn the camera off and then on again to reacquire GPS data.
- When Enable is selected for GPS>Auto meter off in the setup menu, the time until meters turn off is now extended by up to 1 minute to enable camera acquisition of GPS data immediately after the camera is turned on, and immediately after meters turn on. (only with GPS Unit GP-1)
- When On is selected for Long exp. NR with shooting at shutter speeds slower than 1 s but faster than or equal to 8 s, it did not function properly. This issue has been resolved.
- The focus point was sometimes not displayed even when focus was acquired with playback of images captured with continuous shooting. This issue has been resolved.
- When the virtual horizon was displayed with shooting in live view tripod mode and live view was then cancelled, the focus point displayed in the viewfinder could not be moved. This issue has been resolved.
- When some memory cards were inserted in the camera, “CHA” was displayed in the top control panel and images could not be captured. This issue has been resolved.
- When [M] exposure mode was used in live view shooting via Camera Control Pro 2, the electronic analog exposure display did not function. This issue has been resolved.
I signed up with Zenfolio a few weeks ago for hosting of my image galleries. Zenfolio just had a major upgrade with lots of new possibilities for styling your own templates. Have a look at my gallery at http://gallery.bkkphotography.com to see an example. For the first run I’m very impressed, will do a bit further tweaking over the weekend, but there is not much to change.
Zenfolio has posted a news update on their website with more details. http://www.zenfolio.com/zf/news/10-01-07
If you like Zenfolio, please give it a try. You can sign up with my referral code J7C-R8E-AJX. It saves both you and me 5$.
Wishing you a very good 2010.
The original file is a panorama of 3 photo’s, the final version is over 6700px wide. It was taken near Central World in Bangkok, Thailand.
http://gallery.bkkphotography.com/p651947061/e1b342613
I am transferring my photo galleries from Photoshelter to Zenfolio. I am still in the testing phase, but Zenfolio is really looking good and it is much cheaper too. My gallery on Zenfolio can be accessed at http://gallery.bkkphotography.com.
If you are interested in hosting your galleries on Zenfolio then please use my referral code J7C-R8E-AJX when signing up.
Integration with Wordpress is not that difficult. Zenfolio has beautiful looking slide shows, from Zenfolio just copy the code and paste it in a new page. I also use the RSS feeds to pull data and pictures into the stock photo pages. The standard feed is pretty much unusable, I modify the feed with PHP coding.
