Prang Sam Yod is a Khmer-era temple. It was built approximately 800 years ago by King Jayavarman VII, who built many of the structures at Angkor Wat. Today, the temple sits in the middle of a traffic circle, and it is best known for the monkeys. Don’t trip over them on your way to the site.
Tag: thailand
a post about photography instead
i was going to do one more post about the kumbh mela, but that probably isn’t going to happen, since i’ve shared all the really good photos already. instead, i’m going to demonstrate a really obvious point about photography. in january, abby and i went to thailand, and while she brought along the digital olympus om-d, i brought along the leica m6 and some rolls of ilford delta 400, to do some street photography, because i’m stubborn that way. my attempts at being garry winogrand and elliott erwitt weren’t particularly successful, so i also took the camera along on our…