Lazy Days, Endless Waves
Testing a new lens Sony 35MM f1.4 full frame, on Sony A7Rmk5 body, back in March. Cheers Don Charisma Help us out by using our referral … Continue reading Lazy Days, Endless Waves
Testing a new lens Sony 35MM f1.4 full frame, on Sony A7Rmk5 body, back in March. Cheers Don Charisma Help us out by using our referral … Continue reading Lazy Days, Endless Waves
Quote of the day …
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”
– Dan Millman
Hope you like it.
Cheers
Don Charisma
(Reuploading my old videos to YouTube) Sometimes a photo just won’t do for capturing a sunset or any other moment for that matter, so I’m experimenting with video 🙂 I shot this video of the sunset the other evening (the … Continue reading Repost – Beach Sunset Video
(Reuploading my old videos to YouTube) Not going to say any more than that about the video … Taken on my iPhone 4S today. Music added and video flipped horizontally with Avidemux … Music fits nicely with the video, it … Continue reading Repost – Diving Faces Hopscotch
(Reposting my old videos to YouTube) Title pretty much says it all … quite a challenging job to match the music with this one, I nearly went with “The Female Of The Species Is More Deadly Than The Male” … … Continue reading Repost – Sunset Slipway Fisherwoman vs You’re Beautiful
It’s Kite Surfing at sunset this time, with Bill Withers 🙂 Certainly a lot of fun playing with video editing in Photoshop. Slowly getting my head around all of the possibilities, which are endless … (Re-Uploading my old videos on … Continue reading Kite Surfing VS Bill Withers
I’ve been meaning to finish this off for a while. It’s the longest video I’ve done, shot in multiple pieces. Finding a piece of music that I wanted was challenging. So it’s quite a lot more up tempo than my … Continue reading Jetski Sunset VS Heartbeat
I was aiming to take a short video, showing just how quickly the sun moves at sunset. Within a couple of minutes the sun has gone from being fully circular to completely gone behind the clouds. (Re-uploading my old videos … Continue reading Beach Sunset Video With Random Family
I shot this kite video a couple of weeks ago, only just got around to making it into a video … It’s the full club version of Cafe Del Mar / Energy 52 … 7min 30sec … The graphic special … Continue reading The Kite VS Cafe Del Mar
I love the colours that came out in this one 🙂 Fishing anyone ? Mar 11, 2014 at 18:00 Continue reading Beach Fisherman’s Sunset
I like this effect of the silhouetting with overhead foliage …
The people on the beach are collecting shells to eat …
Enjoy 🙂
Isn’t this just a dream wedding, married on the beach in Thailand … awesome … a heart of flowers on the sand ! Enjoy 😀 Our … Continue reading Beach Wedding
These wall lights are very eye-catching, lovely yellow glow ! Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic photos are available to buy at Photos.DonCharisma.com. For our blog readers we’re … Continue reading Beachfront Night Scene
This one is of some bird footprints in the sand, taken whilst I’m out on my evening sunset shoot. Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic photos are available … Continue reading Bird Footprints In The Evening Sand
The Big Buddha has minor Buddhas, one for each day of the week. For YOU, your minor Buddha would be the same as the day of … Continue reading Minor Buddha 10
Captured this one on the beachfront, it’s a ‘twisted’ sculpture, with some seagulls on the top. Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic photos are available to buy at … Continue reading Beach Sculpture
And this is other type of fruit on the other types of palm trees … Looks like the fruit are green, which changes to black when they are “ripe” … I suspect these are the ones that are made into … Continue reading Palm Fruit 2
My understanding is that palm trees have more than one type (species ?). The typical coconut palm being just one type. This one – I’m not sure, the “fruits” look very much like pears (which I’m sure they aren’t !) … Continue reading Palm Fruit
This Thai lady statue stands close to one of my local banks. She looks quite stern, not sure if that’s intentional or not. Enjoy 😀 Our … Continue reading Lady Thailand Statue
As Man Thinketh or talks on his telephone in picturesque places 🙂 I actually wanted to photograph the massive bore pipe that I imagine is either … Continue reading As Man Thinketh Or Make Telephone Calls
Trees are one of my favourite captures on camera this one is no exception. Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic photos are available to buy at Photos.DonCharisma.com. For … Continue reading Beach Walk Tree
An evening scene on the beach, trees, beach lights and a tower in the background. Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic photos are available to buy at Photos.DonCharisma.com. … Continue reading Beachlights And Sunset Panorama
One of the lovely beach front hotels, swimming, palm trees …anyone for a cocktail ? Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic photos are available to buy at Photos.DonCharisma.com. … Continue reading ‘Paradise’ Beachfront Hotel
I made a visit a Thai vineyard – ‘Silverlake’. It’s a bit of tourist attraction, mainly with Thai people as visitors, very popular actually. There’s lots … Continue reading Pretty Picture, Silverlake Vineyard
This little Thai boy was determined to get in my photos, so he’s now also a famous Thai boy photobomber … little boys! Enjoy 😀 Our … Continue reading Thai Beach Boy Photobomber
In Thai – Kung (or sometimes Gung) means prawn or shrimp. The fish for them off of this beach. Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic photos are available … Continue reading Kung Beach Sign
Just occasionally, well quite often actually, my stars all line up and I capture something wonderful. I was actually trying to photograph the sand sculpture of … Continue reading Dream Or Reality?
A view across the rocks to the pagoda and towers Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic photos are available to buy at Photos.DonCharisma.com. For our blog readers we’re … Continue reading Beach And Towers
It’s rainy season here in Thailand … I really like this sky on many levels, the sun trying to break through on the right to the rope … Continue reading Stormy Beach Sunset Panorama
Found this walking along the beach. What caught my eye was that it’s shaped like a leg and foot or boot … Enjoy 😀 Our fantastic … Continue reading Burnt Driftwood “Boot”
This is the sunset as seen from the landing of the top floor of my building … very respectable sunset. Merged using Photoshop, 8 photos. Enjoy … Continue reading Top Floor Sunset Panorama
Taken during last year’s Loy Catong festival in Thailand in November. This one’s two landscape photos fused together with PTGui Pro. Enjoy 😀 Taken in Thailand (c) Don … Continue reading Night Beach Panorama #5 – Loy Catong Festival
Another Don Charisma experiment that paid off … my iPhone was about an inch from the water, I wanted to capture how “still” the water was … Continue reading Ocean Closeup Sunset
The customary Don Charisma bedtime sunset in a panorama of six photos magically joined from Abode with love 😀 Enjoy 😀 Taken in Thailand (c) Don Charisma Continue reading Beach Sunset Panorama
Photographing birds flying past, well it’s more luck than skill for me … Looking at what to post today, for my 365 sunsets, this one stood … Continue reading Beach Sunset Flying Bird
This evening’s sunset, well what can I say, again beautiful … The clouds have so many different layers, close, far away, different colours and types … … Continue reading Beach Sunset Cloud Layers
I’d like to publish more of these pattern type photos I’ve been taking. This one is of some bird footprints in the sand, taken whilst I’m … Continue reading Bird Footprints In The Evening Sand
I came across a piece of what I’m calling drift-rope. I thought it might make a nice pattern at least for a background, and actually it’s … Continue reading Frayed Nylon Drift Rope Close-up
Taken last year during Loy Catong festival on the beach … Millions of sky lanterns being sent skyward by revellers … Enjoy 😀 Photos (c) Don … Continue reading Millions Of Sky Lanterns – Beach Night Pano