Bangkok Chinatown is a perfect location. Always busy in the evening, colorfully decorated and illuminated, with people somehow understanding they are not just visitors and vendors but part of a performance.
There are mobs of foreigners there but Thais like visiting the area too, and, for that reason, probably, Bangkok Chinatown haven't lost its authenticity.
All these diverse people - locals, farangs, South and Eastern Asians - create an amazing visual kaleidoscope. Solo travelers, travel mates, couples, families, groups, all in search of the life's marvel.
Eating is the main activity there - night Yaowarat Road is, first of all, famous of its foods.
I know Thais who believe Yaowarat is a nice place to eat something special but I personally never tried there anything too special I had never tried before in other parts of Bangkok.
And, for sure, I have never tried much to do so since I visit Yaowarat to take images, not to pay for the same food more. 😄
That farang family impressed me, with their charming goslings.
I love taking images of passing tuk-tuks since they often have colorful illumination in the cabin like in the image below and people often have interesting mood there:
In Bangkok, not only people eat fish but fish eats people too (fish pedicure):
Taking images of people's napes - why not?
Every time I look at this image, I try to imagine their face and decipher who these people are.
Unexpected turns also happen.
I noticed this guy in the dense crowd, and he noticed that I glanced at his direction with my camera ready. As we got closer (moving in the crowd), he asked me “do you want to take a picture of me?”
As it turned out, he was from Moscow, an optimistic, friendly, and sociable person.
So I answered I wanted to photograph him and the guy started posing me in glamor photography style that surprised and confused me.
That was the opposite I was doing right before meeting him - I had tried not to involve, and I had been observing and searching for photo opportunities. So, I needed to quickly switch my mind to at least avoid street pillars growing from the head and cars crashing into the face 😄
No, it's not street photography, neither authentic nor candid, and this naked torso in the middle of the metropolis looked too bizarre. But this happened to me and it was fun.
I took the images with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G on a full frame Nikon D750 in Bangkok, Thailand.
