Khoa Sok National Park, Thailand

[goddi]

The location of this show is at the Khoa Sok National Park, Thailand. It lasts about 6:20 minutes and is blend of still images and video, at 1920x1080. The Khoa Sok National Park is an amazing place. It is covered by the oldest evergreen rainforest in the world, huge limestone mountains shooting straight up in the air, deep valleys, breathtaking lakes, exciting caves, wild animals and much more. Still images were taken with a Nikon D7000; videos were taken with a Kodak PlaySport camera.

I hope you are entertained by it.

Comments and critiques are welcomed.

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Gary

[Lin Evans]

Hi Gary,

Very nice memories of a trip to some incredible country - that was some flower! Looks like the two little bees were having their fill there. While you were in Thailand did you get to visit any of the amazing buddhist temples? In past years, I've stumbled onto several ancient ones which were totally overgrown by jungle vegetation in Cambodia, Laos and in Thailand.

Best regards,

Lin

[goddi]

Hi Gary,

Very nice memories of a trip to some incredible country - that was some flower! Looks like the two little bees were having their fill there. While you were in Thailand did you get to visit any of the amazing buddhist temples? In past years, I've stumbled onto several ancient ones which were totally overgrown by jungle vegetation in Cambodia, Laos and in Thailand.

Best regards,

Lin

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Lin,

We sure did. We went to Seam Reap, Cambodia first and went through Angkor Wat and many other temples. And saw temples in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, too. It was an incredible trip. I have a few more slideshows to put together...takes time.

Gary

[mhwarner]

Gary,

I liked this one much better! What an incredible place and what an incredible flower! I think the music was quite appropriate (and very soothing). In this case, I think the videos did add to the overall experience. I guess we will always disagree on mixing horizontals with verticals (at least without some sort of background on which to overlay them). I understand the need for inserting them, but I always find the stark transitions a bit disconcerting. I loved your little treehouse as well. The one thought that ran through my mind while watching was that the bugs must have been awful. Thank you for sharing this. I'm sure it was a wonderful trip. I look forward to more in the series.

[goddi]

Greetings,

Great! Glad you liked it. As far as mixing horizontals with verticals, in the 'old days', I was taught to include verticals so that the slide show would not get boring. (I think some in the Forum have said not to use verticals at all!) Putting a background with the vertical....hmmmmmm....I think it detracts from the vertical image. I see it as the eye not knowing exactly where to look. But that is my 'school of thought'. Maybe in some cases as I did with the bananas as a background in a few of the images in my "Close Encounter..." show, but not as a consistent thing to do. I also think it would be pretty hard pick out that many appropriate backgrounds that would fit that purpose. But, who knows,maybe I will be doing something along those lines in the future. Never say never.

Interesting you mentioned a concern about bugs. I brought 2 full bottles of bug repellant expecting the worse and did not ever think of opening either one and never did. We were in Cambodia and Thailand for about 21 days and bugs were never a thought or a problem!!! In the treehouse, we were warned to keep windows shuttered when we were not there because the monkeys would come in and take anything not nailed down...but no problem there either.

Thanks for the comments,

Gary

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Gary,

I liked this one much better! What an incredible place and what an incredible flower! I think the music was quite appropriate (and very soothing). In this case, I think the videos did add to the overall experience. I guess we will always disagree on mixing horizontals with verticals (at least without some sort of background on which to overlay them). I understand the need for inserting them, but I always find the stark transitions a bit disconcerting. I loved your little treehouse as well. The one thought that ran through my mind while watching was that the bugs must have been awful. Thank you for sharing this. I'm sure it was a wonderful trip. I look forward to more in the series.

[mhwarner]

Gary,

The easiest way to create a background might be to take a portion of the vertical and crop it to a size that would fill the whole screen area. Then use a Gaussian blur, a motion blur or some other blur to make it mostly unrecognizable. Then overlay the vertical over top. You would then have virtually the same colors but the blur would eliminate any distraction. You could add a shadow to the overlayed vertical. Just a thought.

[goddi]

Gary,

The easiest way to create a background might be to take a portion of the vertical and crop it to a size that would fill the whole screen area. Then use a Gaussian blur, a motion blur or some other blur to make it mostly unrecognizable. Then overlay the vertical over top. You would then have virtually the same colors but the blur would eliminate any distraction. You could add a shadow to the overlayed vertical. Just a thought.

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Greetings Mary,

Thanks for the tip. I'll experiment.

Gary