The Photography of Dr. Jeff Harper

Spent the week-end in Lopburi, Thailand -- an easy 90 minute drive north of Bangkok.  Very pleasant . . . and interesting!

Parts of Lopburi, around the Monkey Temple, are completely overrun with monkeys. A photographers' paradise!

Casual city dwelling monkeys.

Monkeys here . . . . .

. . . monkeys there . . . .

. . . monkeys everywhere!

And I do mean EVERYWHERE!

A wonderful old Buddha near the Lopburi Monkey Temple site.

Centuries of worshipers' gold leaf has nearly obscured the Buddha statue's detail. This Buddha statue is in a long room with a very bright red ceiling along with tall windows down each side, giving it this interesting redish glow.

New gold leaf added every day to all the Buddha images in the Wat (Buddhist Temple).

I bought a bracelet to wear for the next month -- to remember the day and the spirit of the Monkey Temple.

. . . .  and one for the private home.

Thousands of people turned out to clean up the mess left by the Red Shirt protesters.  But still, 35 buildings were torched by the departing "hardline" wing . . . . . . 

What a mess in downtown Bangkok.

Workmen clear the barricades  . . . . . .                                  The previous two photos are from Boston.Com.                     

Thursday morning, May 20, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand                                           This photo from The Nation, Bangkok.

Bangkok, Thailand on the evening of May 19, 2010 after the Red Shirt "protesters" lit 35 buildings on fire.

A Major Shopping Mall on fire.  The world seems very large when you are made to feel very small. A hard rain is gonna fall.

I believe these are 7.50 X 15s.                                                               The previous three photos are from Boston.Com.

If you have tried to make a telephone call to my home phone in Bangkok and were unable to get through . . . . .

I just want to let you know that we HAVE called a technician.

It was fun to walk around Japan in mid-April with a camera in my hand. The weather was alternately wet and dreary and then bright and cheery.  We went on several day trips out of Fukuoka into the mountains.  We never passed up an opportunity to visit a flower garden.  It was that time of year. Flowers were blooming. It was early Spring.  Cool Spring is such a novelty to somebody like me who lives in the damp, hot tropical city of Bangkok.

In the mists of a Japanese Spring . . . and Time,

The steady mist settled upon the pink petals,

White and yellow flowers defying the wet with their unyielding cheer,

An umbrella for a mosquito.

A welcoming inn on a damp day.

Saki house recommendations.

What to take home?

To travel, to look about, to see someone in an instant.  A life passes at 70kph before a shutter.  Click.

Dried red puffs adorn a shop wall.

Small town charm in Japan.

Small, tasty, expensive specialty cakes can be found all over Japan.  Yum-yum!

The Japanese love of nature is brought into the life of towns and cities in wonderful ways.