Dusit Palace
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the Dusit Palace is part of Hiểu được chết liền , เขตดุสิต - Dusit .
Interesting places in Dusit Palace:
| Dusit Zoo (Khao Din) | วังปารุสกวัน | |
| National Parliament | คุรุสภา | |
| พระที่นั่งอภิเศกดุสิต | สวนอัมพร | |
| ตำหนักสวนบัว | ร้านอาหารสโมสรกองทัพบก | |
| สวนสัตว์ดุสิต หรือเขาดิน |
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Parliament House Protest. Bangkok. 7th October 2008.
Made by adaptorplug
Crowds run from the tear gas fired up the street a fair distance from Parliament House. Ratchaweti Road. ...the wall to the left is the Dusit Zoo - behind which is the open air giraffe compound, and some ape cages. Bangkok Post 2008-10-07 Riot police launched a surprise tear-gas raid Tuesday morning to break up a siege and tear down barricades at parliament erected up overnight by supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy. The PAD protesters retreated as unarmed police with shields and face masks moved through the barbed-wire barricades and tore them down. Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat ordered police to clear the way into parliament for the scheduled policy debate on Tuesday morning. He had called an urgent cabinet meeting late Monday night after PAD human shields ringed parliament to prevent the meeting. Several people were carried from the protest by fellow demonstrators after the short tear-gas attack, but it was not clear if there were any casualties when police moved in to clear the human blockade of parliament. Hundreds of police massed in riot formation marched up to parliament shortly after sunrise at 6am. Officers armed with grenade launchers immediately began firing tear gas cannisters at the barricades. Most of the gas grenades burst in piles of tyres placed by the demonstrators as part of their barricade. With the CS gas still heavy in the air and wafting over the area, police moved in to tear down the steel gates and barbed wire that had been strung by the PAD. Most of the policemen had no protection against the gas, and covered their faces with handkerchiefs. The PAD crowds pulled back from the area as police moved in to open roads and remove the protesters' barricades. PAD supporters screamed at police through the loudspeaker system as officers moved in, but the actual PAD core leaders were not seen. PAD founder and leader Sondhi Limthongkul could be heard deploring the police attack on children in our midst but he also did not come to the foreground of the action. The Nation. 2008-10-07, Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat did not worry about police's using tear gas at anti-government protesters, PM Secretary General Chusak Sirinin said Tuesday. Chusak said he telephoned Somchai shortly after police used tear gas to break up protesters who blocked the Parliament. Prime Minister told me that police have used soft approach to handle the protesters' situation, he said. The Nation 2008-10-07 Vachira Hospital's director Dr Wanchai Charoenchokthavee said the protesters's wounds were not likely to be from tear gas. Wachira Hospital doctors are treating several protesters who were injured after police fired tear gas into the anti-government protesters at the Parliament on Monday morning. Police insisted that they used only tear gas to disperse the protesters who blocked the Parliament so that Members of Parliament from attending Somchai government's policy address on Tuesday. Judging from wounds of the victims we saw in the operation room, we believed that the wounds did not cause by tear gas, Wanchai said. The doctors said the wounds were caused by powerful explosives which can destroy tissues and bones. Despite police insisted of using tear gas, several photos showed one protester lost his leg and another protester lost his foot. Wanchai said a total of 47 people received treatment at the hospital. Most of them had wounds on the bodies. Santi Larnwong, 22, said he suffered several wounds on his body but will continue joining protests against the government. The Nation / 2008-10-07 Protesters' injury toll rises to 381 By 9 pm, the number of injured protesters grew to 381, the Erawan Emergency Centre of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced. It said 48 of them were admitted to hospitals and ten had to undergo operations. The Nation / 2008-10-08 PAD to hold bathing rite for slain protester at Government House The People's Alliance for Democracy will Wednesday hold a bathing rite for a victim fatally injured during a clash with police Tuesday. Suriyasai Katasila said the bathing rite for Angkhana Raduppanyawut would be held inside the Government House's compound in the evening. BangkokPost.com 2008-10-13 Ministry's Central Institute of Forensic Science director Porntip Rojanasunan on Monday questioned the police about the crowd dispersal on October 7, which led to almost 500 injuries and two dead. She believed there were more than two people who commanded the crowd dispersal and raised five questions: 1. Why were there police in many locations? 2. How did the police procure the weapons and tear gas? 3. Had the police been properly trained to use weapons and tear gas? 4. Why did the police fire about a hundred shotsof tear gas? 5. Why did the police disperse the group of protesters in the evening again? The forensic export also disclosed that PAD supporter Angkana Radubpanyawut, aged 20, died from the tear gas explosion on October 7. According to the director, the explosion from a tear gas canister caused a wound on the victim's chest after it hit her. Many of the injuries and Ms Angkana's death were caused by the police weapons, she concluded. The Nation 2008-10-16. The big blow for (Prime Minister) Somchai came earlier in the day when results of a primary scientific probe were announced showing Angkana and other victims suffered from impact of China-made tear gas fired by police. The police earlier claimed the victims might have been killed or wounded by explosives they or fellow protesters were carrying. ........................... George Orwell / Eric Blair. 1984. He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. ............................... This picture sits in a set -
King Cobra / Ophiophagus hannah @ Bangkok's Dusit Zoo
Made by sftrajan
The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the world's longest venomous snake, growing to a length of 18.5 ft (5.7 m) and a weight of up to 20 lbs. (9 kg.) The venom of the King Cobra is primarily neurotoxic, and the snake is fully capable of killing a human with a single bite. The mortality rate can be as high as 75%, but most bites involve nonfatal amounts of venom. King Cobras, like other snakes, smell using their forked tongue which picks up scent particles and transfers them to a special sensory receptor (Jacobson's Organ), located in the roof of its mouth. When the scent of a potential meal has been detected, the snake will continue to flick its tongue to gauge the prey's direction (the twin forks of the tongue acting in stereo); it will also rely on its keen eyesight (King Cobras are able to detect moving prey almost 300 ft [100 m] away), sensitivity to vibrations, and intelligence to track its prey. Following envenomation, the King Cobra will begin to swallow its struggling prey whole while its toxins begin the digestion of its victim. King Cobras, as with all other snakes, do not have rigidly fixed jaws. Instead, the jaw bones are connected by extremely pliable ligaments, enabling the lower jaw bones to move independently of each other. Like other snakes, the King Cobra does not chew its food, its prey is swallowed whole. Unhinging the jaw enables the snake to swallow prey much larger than their head. HPIM1481
reticulated python @ Bangkok's Dusit Zoo
Made by sftrajan
Python reticulatus is a non-venomous python species found in Southeast Asia. This is the longest snake in the Old World and competes for the title of the world's longest snake with the South American green anaconda, Eunectes murinus. No subspecies are currently recognized. maximum recorded length of 32' 9 Their natural diet includes mammals and occasionally birds. Small specimens - up to 3-4 meters (10-14 ft) long - eat mainly rodents such as rats, whereas larger individuals switch to prey such as Viverridae (e.g. civets and binturongs), and even primates and pigs. Near human habitation, they are known to snatch stray chicken, cats and dogs on occasion. Among the largest prey items that are actually fully documented to have been taken were a half-starved old female Sun Bear of 23 kilograms that was eaten by a 6.95 m (23 ft) specimen, which took some 10 weeks to digest, as well as pigs of more than 60 kg (132 lb). As a rule-of-thumb, these snakes seem able to swallow prey up to one-fourth their own length and up to their own weight. As with all pythons, they are ambush hunters, waiting until prey wanders within strike range before seizing it in their coils and killing via constriction. These pythons are oviparous, with females laying between 60 and 100 eggs per clutch; at an optimum incubation temperature of 31-32°C (88-90 °F), the eggs take an average of 88 days to hatch.-- YIKES! 100 eggs! HPIM1479
Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall
Made by Justin Gaurav Murgai
The Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall is a former reception hall within Dusit Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. It is now a museum. One year after construction was completed of the Amphorn Satharn Villa, His Majesty King Rama V commissioned the construction of Ananda Samakhom. It is situated to the east of Amphorn Satharn Villa. The commemorative stone was placed by King Rama V in November on the occasion of his 40th year of ascension to the throne. Ananda Samakhom is named after an old hall constructed during the reign of His Majesty King Rama IV which at the time was in such bad condition that it could not be renovated. Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall was constructed in the Italian Renaissance and Neoclassical style of architecture. The exterior is decorated with marble from Carrara, Italy. It is a two storey marble construction approximately 49.50 meters wide, 112.50 meters long and 47.50 meters high with a large center dome surrounded by six smaller domes. Construction was carried out during the latter years of King Rama V's life. It was completed in 1915, having taken eight years and a total budget of 15 million baht to complete.
Pink
Made by Timo Kozlowski
Around the area, there were many busses from all over the country with groups travelling to Bangkok to see the spectacle. Mostly, they were uniformly clad in pink. People who don't want to get associated with the People's Alliance for Democracy, but who want to show their reverence for the King now wear pink shirts (after the King left Siriraj Hospital after treatment in a pink jacket), and not yellow shirts - the King's traditional colour. From a 4D Light and Sound Show by German artist Philip Geist to celebrate King Bhumibol's 82nd birthday. More about the installation at Philip Geist's MySpace blog.
Watchers
Made by Timo Kozlowski
The mise-en-scène to get to Ananta Samakhon Throne Hall was superb. The street was sealed of for cars (of normal people), and when you went there, there were gradually less and less light and sound. The food vendors around the area even used wax candles instead of light bulbs. So, the light show was put into the center of the attention - just as if you would've left behind the huzzle and buzzle of Bangkok and left the city. From a 4D Light and Sound Show by German artist Philip Geist to celebrate King Bhumibol's 82nd birthday. More about the installation at Philip Geist's MySpace blog.
Close encounters of the bird kind
Made by Unique_Snowflake
Why go to the zoo when on holiday in Thailand? The thing is I bought myself an early christmas present while in thailand. I bought a 70-200 F2.8 IS lens and a 2x extender. What with tax rebates and a sale, the price was just low, low, low. I had to buy it and the zoo was an excellent place to test it. This is an ostrich by the way. If you ever go to oudtshoorn in South Africa you should consider going to one of the ostrich farms. When I went there as a child it was great fun. You were allowed to stand on the ostrich eggs (unless you were really overweight). They would also let you ride on the back of the ostrich. I don't know if they still do that, but at 10 years old it was a lot of fun.
celebration
Made by khuntu2001
หน้าประตู พระตำหนักจิตรลดารโหฐาน ฝั่งเขาดิน ภาพนี้ถ่ายจากฝั่งเขาดิน แบบพาโนรามา มีพี่น้องประชาชนไปถ่ายรูปกันเยอะมากเลย ผมเลยต้องหนีไปฝั่งเขาดิน ก็ได้ภาพแบบที่เห็นนี่แหละครับ ภาพนี้ถ่ายวันที่ 3 ธันวาคม กลับบ้านก็เกือบตีหนึ่ง
Protection
Made by Birger Hoppe
These lions guard the (closed) entrance to the main chapel of the Marble Temple. The photo is inspired by postcards sold along Kao San Road, artificially made up of a black and white 'cultural' backdrop and monks in orange robes pasted artfully into the picture. The differences here: 1. The boy is not pasted into the picture, he was really walking down the stairs. 2. As the boy is real I had to live with the real colors: His shirt was orange, but his trousers grey. 3. I changed everything around the boy to black&white, but left the boy's colors untouched. Bangkok, Thailand, BK_20071024_154440_processed
Ananta Samakorn Throne Hall, Bangkok
Made by hkkbs
Ananta Samakorn Throne Hall was built in 1912 in italian style. The Thai parliament had it's seat here for a time. It's mostly used for cermonies. It's very beautiful inside, but photography was not allowed inside. Looks almost like a church inside with paintings from thai history. It was outside this building hundreds of thousands of people stayed in the streets to support Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej in celebration of the 60th anniversary accession to the throne of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday 09 June 2006.
Illuminated Ananta Samakhon Throne Hall
Made by Timo Kozlowski
Getting good pictures of the Throne Hall is not so easy, as the area is closed, hundreds of people stand around the gate. So, I was not able to see that much, and this is one of the few photos I took with only the building as motive. From a 4D Light and Sound Show by German artist Philip Geist to celebrate King Bhumibol's 82nd birthday. More about the installation at Philip Geist's MySpace blog.
Posture
Made by Unique_Snowflake
These cats are absolutely stunning but I actually pondered for a long time about whether or not to post this shot. I remember from my childhood when I want to museums and all the animals would be stuffed with those menacing expressions. Even completely harmless animals had their teeth bared for all to see. The agression displayed was often a misleading indication of the nature of the beast. Obviously a tiger is a big, mean meat eating machine but there's more to this animal than just menacing teeth....
The Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall
Made by Back to Nothing
Built in 1907 by King Chulalongkorn, the Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall was only completed in 1915, during the reign of King Vajiravudh or King Rama VI. Designed by Italian architects and engineers and decorated by Italian artists, the Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall covers an area of 5,600 sq m or about 1.4 acres! The striking features of this architectural masterpiece by Mario Tamagno and Annibale Rigotti are the central dome with six smaller domes, reminiscent of historical buildings in Europe.
Human emotion attributed = Anger. True emotion = Despair
Made by Unique_Snowflake
Bangkok zoo is large. It covers a huge area but you can tell that it wasn't built recently. It shows signs of a zoo / captivity philosophy that was more prevalent back in the 70's and 80's. There are very few large open encampments. Instead most animals are confined to relatively small cages. Apart from cages making it difficult to shoot an image it also confines the the animals excessively. My point: If you're going to stick them in a zoo, at least try to give them a lot of space.
Dusit Palace - Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall
Made by Timo Kozlowski
As a part of the Dusit Palace, Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall is quite a peculiar building. Commissioned by King Rama V Chulalongkorn in 1907, it was planned and executed mainly by a group of Italian architects, engineers and painters. The architecture is a mixture of Italian Renaissance and Neo Classical style, but the paintings in the inside follow a Thai iconography. The Ananda Samakhom Throne was part of the 2009 birthday festivities of King Bhumibol's with .
Passers-by
Made by Timo Kozlowski
Around the area, there were many busses from all over the country with groups travelling to Bangkok to see the spectacle. Mostly, they were uniformly clad in pink. From a 4D Light and Sound Show by German artist Philip Geist to celebrate King Bhumibol's 82nd birthday. More about the installation at Philip Geist's MySpace blog.
It's near the Zoo
Made by Timo Kozlowski
Right on the other side of the road Dusit Zoo is located, and some of the Zoo's public vehicles stood there waiting for guests the next day. From a 4D Light and Sound Show by German artist Philip Geist to celebrate King Bhumibol's 82nd birthday. More about the installation at Philip Geist's MySpace blog.
Contact
Made by Unique_Snowflake
I found out that I was patient. I've always know it actually but while taking this shot it actually became quite clear. I was standing at this enclosure for about an hour. I was waiting for something interesting to happen. Other photographers and tourists would arrive at the cage, look at the animal, see him doing nothing at all, snap a shot, glance at my tripod and gear and then move on. Patience. It works.
People watching from afar
Made by Timo Kozlowski
The compound around Ananta Samakhon Throne Hall was closed, so people flocked around the gate to take photos. From a 4D Light and Sound Show by German artist Philip Geist to celebrate King Bhumibol's 82nd birthday. More about the installation at Philip Geist's MySpace blog.
Soldiers
Made by Timo Kozlowski
Suddenly, a group of soldiers appeared to escort an SUV that passed by. From a 4D Light and Sound Show by German artist Philip Geist to celebrate King Bhumibol's 82nd birthday. More about the installation at Philip Geist's MySpace blog.
