Click, Click, Click, Click Photo

Photographer’s Note

I know...it's probably the most touristical market of the Thailand...and i think that the Thay Governement pay the old ladies on the boat to go around all the morning for the joy of the tourist with the cameras!

click, click, click, click....this is the sound that there are in all the floating market. on the streets and the bridges, on the boats, on the banks...everywhere some hundreds of tourist: click, click, click....and me too of course!

we went there in late September 1996 when there were few tourists. "Only" some hundreds.
Some friends told me that in August or December there are some thousands of tourists from the whole world.

It was my first floating market, it was a quite good exsperience, but there was something of innatural in all that....there were more Europeans backpackers and Americans with Tour Operators than...Thais at the market!

click, click, click, click....20 tourist that shooted the only one monk at market....terrible!
(i was one of the 20)

click, click, click, click....

some years later we visited the floating market of Cai Rang in Vietnam, along the Mekong, in the Delta.
there were some hunderds of boats, some thousands of Viets and not more than 15 tourist in 2 only small boats.

...ok...why i posted the Damnoen Saduak image and not the Cai Rang ones?

simply....in Cai Rang there was the monsoon...and we were on the open air 3 meters boat...in Damnoen there was a great sunny day.

we cannot have all the better thing at the same moments!

gaby, GrahamB, PixelTerror, kevinos, capthaddock, yannick, AmiBe, cessy, nerve, KevRyan, joseelias, rafelito, berseph, MLINES has marked this note useful

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Zepi (22848) 2005-06-16 3:48

Hello Paolo,
Belle image,très belle composition,superbes couleurs!
J'aime
Beau travail
Amicalement
Sébastien

naxius (16679) 2005-06-16 3:51

Hi Paolo,
These market on the water are really impressive.
I like the way you have framed this photo, in a vertical layout. Very efficient.
Bravo!
Alex

bantonbuju (48626) 2005-06-16 3:55

buon giorno paolo, so well seen this scene, excellently scattered boats of different types: cabs, carriers, kiosks, everything you want you find there; was there a cinema, too?
ciao, jerzy

paulartus (824) 2005-06-16 4:01

I know exactly what you mean by the over-tourist side of the market. I was there and likewsie still had to take photos, no matter how sick to the stomach I felt about the experience. Still, in this picture you have captured an image that probably happily would sit in any tourist brochure - it still looks authentic. It doesn't look anywhere near as contrived as well know it is.

Gregtom (7119) 2005-06-16 4:15

Hello, Paolo! Very humorous, looks like our main alley full of cars in the afternoon... Good compo and idea!
regards,
Grzegorz

gaby (19793) 2005-06-16 4:23

Hi Paolo, merveilleuse compo avec toutes les pirogues au premier plan se dirigeant dans le même sens -Une belle réussite
Merci
Gaby

Furachan (0) 2005-06-16 4:23

Nice one Paolo. Excellent control over perspective. You can hear the sounds, and smell the ripe durian in the morning sun....oh! Grazie, Francis

GrahamB (939) 2005-06-16 4:27

I like your note, it's true of so many places that we visit as tourists, travellers, backpackers whatever we want to call ourseleves.

As for the picture: I like the composition, you have captured the hustle and bustle of the market very well. It's maybe a little dark in the top right but that's how the scene was so not much you could do there.

Good work.

jinju (14265) 2005-06-16 4:48

Hey, no wonder tey take photos there. Its a great place to take really nice photos. You have great colors, great shapes, interesting elements. All the stuff that makes a good and compelling photo.

Graal (57909) 2005-06-16 6:16

Hi Paolo!
Very good shot. Interesting and funny note. Good composition of market on the boats. Nice colours. Well done.
Regards,
Aleksander

clodreno (0) 2005-06-16 6:46

a classic shot of the floating market.
well done Paolo..

noi andiamo in corsica alla meta di luglio..
dove vai al'Elba?

summersun (4964) 2005-06-16 7:40

even though there were a lot more tourists in Damnoen Saduak, I liked this one much better than the one in Cai Rang : the boats are huge, and you can't see much from the water. all the engines of the boat make too much noise... I was expecting to see a real floating market with little boats, so I was very disappointed in Vietnam.
about your pic, your point of view is nice ( it is taken from the bridge, right ?), giving an idea of the atmosphere of the market.
Vanessa

faubry (32291) 2005-06-16 7:55

very interesting note about a lot tourists... impressionnant to see a lot boats.. very colorful.
well done
francine

billabongx (1561) 2005-06-16 8:01

Madonna!!!
chi ha la precedenza????
bei colori con fantastici contrasti....
ciaociao
daniele

PixelTerror (86088) 2005-06-16 9:38

Ciao Paolo,
Yes it does look busy ! There's a lot of action going on on this canal and I like here your choice of portrait framing to match the canal shape and accentuate the depth.
Have a nice day,
Jean-Yves

Leonie (8647) 2005-06-16 17:04

Ciao Paolo,
Una bella foto di questo posto famoso..purtroppo non ho più trovato abbastanza tempo per andarci quando ero in Tailandia.. La prossima volta andrò..Grazie,

Léonie

huynt (5077) 2005-06-16 23:07

Hello Paolo

A living activities with the wonderful color. Light and shadow are perfect. I love this asmosphere. Thanks for sharing
Best Regards
Huy

kevinos (6927) 2005-06-17 2:12

Your note has caught the point perfectly. This is an example of tourism destroying what it goes to see. Not long ago, this was a real, living market, where Thai people bought and sold fish and vegitables. As the tourists arrived the real merchants were forced out and it became a nasty, fake tousrits specticle. You have made a nicely composed picture of it and you clearly understand what it is about. This is not a picture of Thailand, this is a picture of what mass tourism can do to Thailand.

dolin (15647) 2005-06-17 4:43

Hi Paolo.
Excellent view and POV for this scene.
Incredible, all these boats...in this market.
Good vertical framing and DOF.
Bravo.
Fred

(I come back for the smile)

yannick (1469) 2005-06-17 14:14

It is a real traffic jam on the river! I like the compo, because you can see a global view of this market, but also what is carried in the baoats and sold on the market.
It is very interesting. Nice note too,
Yannick

AmiBe (6042) 2005-06-17 14:16

Ciao Paolo,
ok it's a touristic place but in your picture we don't see too much.
Your POV is very good, with a good depth.
Good note, well done

cessy (13647) 2005-06-18 9:03

love the angle
very nice shot, Paolo
the composition and colors really excellent

capthaddock (28640) 2005-06-18 13:56

Hi Paolo - touristy but still very interesting and colourful. I never went to this market because of the reasons you describe in your note. I also skipped the Mekong markets because nowadays they too have become click....click...click

Luan (15935) 2005-06-18 15:51

Lovely place, so many things to taste...I like this market but there is so many people...A very nice capture Paolo, it's rush time here ;o)

greg64g (11193) 2005-06-19 3:38

hello Paolo;

Nice picture, this is very impressive, good composition, i like the mood.
Very well done.
cheers
greg

nerve (10210) 2005-06-19 6:01

Great note Paulo, very informative..
i love your composition here in a vertical format too..i would love to go to that place and do these "click" a couple of thousand as well, Lol!
ciao.

joseelias (367) 2005-06-21 8:47

I know partially the feeling of seeing more tourists than locals… In fact in the Lisbon downtown, except for the rush hour, it’s almost difficult to see Portuguese people! :-)

Still despite all the tourists I believe this must be a very nice experience and a very interesting place.

Nice framing, taking advantage of the sense of depth and perspective lines. Nice colors too. Some more sharpness and bringing some details from the shadow could enhance this image.

gaudi-spirit (187) 2005-07-06 3:54

Very nice shot. That's amazing all this little boats everywhere. Thanks too for the description, very interesting. It's like we're there. Well done.

poulinp (4464) 2005-07-25 13:12

A lot of traffic here Paolo! I like this kind of photograph: charged but always impressive. Good shot.

Cruize (0) 2005-08-28 1:27

Comercial tourism or not, it's still a great image Paolo and you click, click, clicked just right with a nice perspective...well done mate. I like the muddy water - it could be the scene for Charlie and the chocolate factory!

Cheers.

rafelito (3645) 2005-08-28 1:30

Muy buen enfoque a pesar de la distancia de la toma, el marco negra ealza el color y le da profundidad, Excelenete, Gracias por enseñar

berseph (1758) 2005-11-12 17:36

Very interesting picture. Nice colors.

lyblanc (102) 2006-03-01 13:10

fascinating, great effect of depth and nice compositions, I would have prefered maybe more vivid colors but the pic is really great anyway thanks for sharing

sergio1 (12150) 2006-03-21 7:59

Hi Paolo
Very nice shor and compo. This place is beautiful.
In May I go to the Thailand.
Thanks for share.
Regards

ruisc_pt (6206) 2006-07-31 3:41

Great POV under the "circunstances". I also cliked there.
Nice JOB.
B Regards
Rui

smash2707 (2516) 2006-12-25 14:24

Hi Paolo. Great point of view to show the amazing activity of this floating market. It looks like a rush hour traffic jam. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get there when I went to Thailand. Merry Christmas to you, too. Yvonne

ahhow (114) 2007-01-30 0:14

Nice view of floating market, i likes your composition.

ayansadhu (1499) 2008-01-21 9:41

What an amazing composition Paolo!
Its really nice to see the crowded water-space with the excellent POV
TFS

Dragut (1965) 2008-01-21 9:59

Hi Paolo

So nice, un marché ou un embouteillage?

Dragut

touristdidi (8561) 2008-01-21 10:08 [Comment]