Category: Architecture

I am back from the UK… and finally an update here (more to come when I finally get out to take pictures after the completion of my exams next week) 🙂

As mentioned previously, the only camera that I brought along for this UK trip was the little 2-megapixel one in my mobile phone. Quality wise, of course that camera can never compare to the even the Powershot G3 I was using earlier on. However, I am still amazed with what I can get from such a tiny little camera given the right lighting conditions. The above was taken at Carlisle railway station (known otherwise as the Citadel station) in transit from Glasgow to Manchester. Apart from the resize and a little saturation boost, the image was pretty what I got out of the camera.

The pictures I take sometimes stir up retrospective curiousity about the subjects I have taken. Luckily, I usually manage to dig up enough information on the Internet to satisfy the curious streak in me 😛

This was taken in Bangkok during my trip there last month… When I took the picture, it was nothing more than a study of contrast, lighting and architecture to me. Searching on the Internet though, I am made aware that the picture I have taken is that of a Wind God, or Phra Phai residing in one of the four Prangs (Khmer-style tower) that surrounds the central 79-meter high pagoda (Phra Prang) of Wat Arun. Wat Arun, or the Temple of Dawn, is a 17th-century Siamese temple named after the Indian god of dawn, Aruna. The Phra Prang is decorated with a mosaic of multi-colored Chinese porcelain and is symbollic of Mount Meru, the home of the gods in Buddhist mythology. The temple served as a royal temple and palace during the reign of King Taksin (1733-1782 AD). It is currently one of the most well-known landmarks of Bangkok visited frequently by tourists.