The Photography of Dr. Jeff Harper

I found a good excuse to go out on the road to try out my new Canon IS 24-105mm f4.0L lens with my new Canon 5D Mark II DSLR.

On the road with visiting friends Jeff & Sharon from Oregon.  This time we drive west out of Bangkok to Kanchanaburi Province where e visited the famous "Bridge over the River Kwai."

Many thousands of Dutch, British, Canadian, and American soldiers were killed in the building of the bridge and the "Death Railway" from the Thai coast up through Hell Fire Pass to the Burmese boarder. Many of the killed were buried here in an Allied Forces cemetery in Kanchanaburi.

There seemed to be many, many cemeteries in Kanchanaburi.  These are Thai Chedis at a Wat.

A Chedi forest.

The two hundred mile drive was through rough, dry hills dotted with many interest features, and typically strange development.

At the Hell Fire Pass Memorial there was an ostriche farm.

Hell Fire Pass, the route of the Death Railway from here to the Three Pagoda Pass and the Burmese boarder..

A fun thing to do on a road trip in Thailand is to turn off the main roads when you see tourist signs like "Tiger Temple." Tigers under construction.

We saw this fabulous hilltop Thai Wat from the road and turned in for a look see.

Strange hills at dusk in silhouette at the Wat.

The Wat had a special water Bikku.

We spotted this flower, some kind of a fly trap, growing from the trunk of a large tree. 

We arrived at the Burmese boarder just as it was getting dark and were turned back by Thai military personnel.  We drove back to the Nature Resort, rented a cabin that didn't have water, complained, and were given individual de lux cabins on a lake.  I awoke the next morning to geese in the fog.

The fog slowly lifted revealng a fantastic nature reserve . . .

. . . and this tree house.

We enjoyed "magic light" of the morning taking photographs of everything.