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A Girl at Grand Palace, Bangkok

Smiles at Grand Palace, Bangkok

Posted on August 3, 2014April 20, 2021

In all my trips to Thailand, I have been to Grand Palace just once. I actually need to do a detailed post about it, rather than this quick one, but that will have to wait as this one is being uploaded from the airport.

I am a complete chicken when it comes to photographing people. In the recent months I have realized that people pay you less attention if you click them using a mobile phone. However, this shot was taken using my DLSR.

I think two things worked in my favor. I was already standing at this spot and playing around with my camera. The smiling girl arrived after me. She is also not smiling for me, it is her friend who is also clicking her picture, with her cell phone. I was simply crashing her party.

I have said before that I click people only when I am using the zoom lens. This was an exception. I clicked this one using the 50 mm prime. once again I guess was possible because I was already on the scene and the girl was not paying attention to me. I was already part of the scenery, I was already fooling around with my camera. Maybe this could be a new trick in my arsenal! And I could use the 50 mm prime after all for clicking people!

I wonder if I could ever become comfortable clicking people? Who knows I may, after all some time ago I would not click almost any photos which had people in it!

This Lazy Sunday post is being uploaded from T3! I leave you with a smiling girl at the Grand Palace, Bangkok while I fly out to Paro, Bhutan with Makemytrip. Not sure if I can blog live or not.

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24 thoughts on “Smiles at Grand Palace, Bangkok”

  1. Tushar says:
    August 3, 2014 at 1:35 pm

    Are you the owner or running or working for a travel agency?

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:36 pm

      Tushar I have no such desire 😀

      Reply
  2. Nishana says:
    August 3, 2014 at 7:18 pm

    Beautiful shot.

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    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:35 pm

      Thank you so much.

      Reply
  3. the tales of a traveler says:
    August 4, 2014 at 12:00 am

    Smiling girl from the land of smiles 🙂
    after #Thailand …a trip to bhutan ….am jealous 😉

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:33 pm

      I know you are not 😀

      Reply
  4. Indrani says:
    August 4, 2014 at 9:30 am

    Very sweet. Very often I find other tourists very interesting subjects for photography. 🙂

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:30 pm

      Thank you Indrani, I am taking baby steps towards clicking people! 😀

      Reply
  5. yogi saraswat says:
    August 4, 2014 at 10:19 am

    nice “smiling ” shot

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    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:29 pm

      Thank you Yogi.

      Reply
  6. Revanth says:
    August 4, 2014 at 11:24 am

    Nice and beautiful shot.

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    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:28 pm

      Thank you so much.

      Reply
  7. sindhoooo says:
    August 4, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    Wonderful photography! Watching a sweet smile makes me smile back too 🙂

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    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:28 pm

      So good to hear that Sindhu.

      Reply
  8. Bikram says:
    August 4, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    smile and the world smiles with you 🙂

    Bikram’s

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    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:27 pm

      So true Bikram.

      Reply
  9. Priyashi says:
    August 5, 2014 at 9:49 am

    Smile, an everlasting smile…:) Nice click Mridula….

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    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:27 pm

      Thank you Priyashi.

      Reply
  10. Aparna Anurag says:
    August 6, 2014 at 11:52 pm

    oh yeah very contagious smile 🙂

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    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:26 pm

      Thank you Aparna.

      Reply
  11. Lady Fi says:
    August 7, 2014 at 7:16 pm

    A wonderful shot.

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    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:26 pm

      Thank you Lady Fi.

      Reply
  12. joshi daniel says:
    August 8, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    wonderfully framed 🙂

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      August 10, 2014 at 4:25 pm

      Thank you so much!

      Reply

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I am Mridula Dwivedi and I started this blog in 2005. It has been an amazing ride. I have visited 33 countries till date! I have worked with many tourism boards and prominent travel companies. My blog was featured on the BBC and the Guardian.

I did my Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. I worked full time in academics till 2015! I quit my job as a professor, thinking I will take a break for one year, which turned into five.

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