A Black Lahu girl uses a piece of firewood to light her after-breakfast smoke. She has rolled rough home-grown tobacco with wood shavings in a corn sheath. Before schools and development projects encroached into remote hilltribe villages in Thailand, many of the young children smoked. I have seen breast-feeding babies grab their mothers cheroots and take a toke…
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Fabulous capture.
Thanks Linda. I just love warm light through split-bamboo walls
– John Spies
Another emotion stirring shot John, the scene is very natural too, capturing reality :O)
Thanks Vanessa, I have always liked the candid nature of this shot.
– John Spies
Wow, smoking so young. Amazing image.
great image thanks again’