The Photography of Dr. Jeffrey P. Harper

Chinese Lunar Half New Year Ceremony at my wife's family home.

Sending sustenance to the ancestors for protection in the present.

(Photos from my iPhone, remotely uploaded with the very cool Squarespace iPhone app!)

Victory Monument Circle is a major transportation hub in Bangkok for busses and the SkyTrain. Many people pass through the make-shift sidewalk market every day to and from their work.

There is a wet night market under the SkyTrain tracks where some small stalls are erected.

The commuters stop and buy food for dinner, like this tasty Thai dim sum, and are then lured into the other stalls for impulse items.

Biodegradable packaging for the tasty rice. As the sun sets the lights come on and the shadows grow longer.

Anything that is considered cool anywhere on earth finds its way to this corner of Bangkok and onto a card tables under the SkyTrain.

Are they real? Who knows.

A scarf or hanky, a blouse or . . .

. . . or something for the hair  -- on the  way home through Victory Monument Circle.

My other favorite thing about Victory Monument Circle is the Saxophone Blues Pub.  The night's entertainment was roiling blues.

When we arrived home from Canada I noticed that one of the orchids in the garden had bloomed.  This particular Vanda orchid, a Vanda Pachara Delight, blooms only twice a year.

Orchids are extraordinarily interesting in the way that their textures and features mimic living creatures from the animal kingdom.

A close examination of an orchid petal reveals a tiny world of amazement.

As the shadows of a late afternoon crossed the orchids, strange orchid moods  arrived.

The sun struck the orchid at odd angles, revealing new detail as the minutes passed by.

Orchid reproductive anatomy.

I'm glad I bought that Sigma 70mm macro lens.

Reproduction of this amazing living entity takes place here.

It is always a delight to stay along the sea in Thailand.

One evening, looking east toward Burma, a rain interfered with the sunset.  Marvelous.

I have never seen anything like it.

At the same moment, it rained out at sea.

In the last moments of light, a string of white clouds appeared.

Gulf of Siam.

Looking toward Hua Hin town proper.

The same view as above, but during a full moon rise.

As usual, there are many beautiful sunsets . . . .

. . . and many gigantic cloud formations over the Gulf of Siam.