Rangoon
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A fresh meat stall in a busy Rangoon (Yangon) market, Burma. 1986. Scanned Kodachrome 64.
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If religions were ranked in order of colour saturation, hindu temples would surely come out top. We saw quite a few across India, Burma, Malaysia – all with a similarly impressive commitment to adorning their temples with these wildly coloured statues. Often, the figures would be piled on top of each other to form a mass of bodies in an otherworldly pyramid. To take a photo of just one of such guys, I thought, was quite a feat. I found him on the corner of a temple in Yangon, Burma. The multi-cultural city really took me by surprise with its range of religions on offer.
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U Bein’s Bridge is located in Amarapura – a village near Mandalay, Burma. The bridge is built entirely of teak and is said to be the longest wooden bridge in the world. A large Buddhist Monastery is situated at the foot of the bridge. This explains the many monks and nuns that can be observed on the bridge at any time of day.
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Buddhist Monks on U Bein’s Bridge – Mandalay, Burma. The bridge is constructed entirely of teak and is reputed to be the longest wooden bridge in the world. It is located just outside the large city of Mandalay in Central Burma. A Buddhist Monstery is situated at the foot of the bridge.
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Taken in Rangoon, Myanmar, 2005 … Every morning the monks go out from the temple and collect offerings of food and money from the people, in exchange for blessings. The original photo was taken in a market-place and at quite a distance, so ended up really blurred. In an attempt to revive it, I had a play in photoshop and I think this works ???
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Taken in Rangoon, Myanmar, 2005 … It was monsoon season when we visited and so the weather was really wet and humid for our entire stay. I took this photo out the window of my friends car and didn’t realise the guy had an umbrella in his pocket until looking through my photos later – it made me laugh, but I do have a strange sense of humor … :p
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A cheroot smoker at the market in Bagan, Burma – one of the last of a dying breed.
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A couple of cucumber vendors at the vegetable market in Mandalay, Burma.
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A village girl I saw on the Upper Irrawaddy River in Burma. Shot with a Pentax K10D and a Sigma 70-300mm lens.
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Villagers waiting for my cruise vessel, the Pandaw IV, to moor in their town.
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Featured in the Southeast Asia group Pentax K10D and Sigma 70-300mm lens.
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Small boy sitting on a footpath down a lane in Rangoon.
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The courageous Pandaw IV crew save the day
by John MitchellAs the Pandaw IV was hit by a powerful wind of up to 150 kph the vessel suddenly heeled at an angle of 35 to 40 degrees. It wasn’t a goo…
Dozens of bottles of expensive spirits and liqueurs, together with glasses, had crashed to the floor. The rattan furniture including armchairs and coffee tables inlaid with marble had slid crazily across the floor. My wife, Julie, was gripping the bar, and I had slid on my bottom back and forth across the floor twice.
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A young rice merchant at the central market in Kengtung, Burma. Kengtung occupies a strategic position in Eastern Shan State, just a short distance from the borders with China, Thailand and Laos. It had been closed to foreign visitors until recently.
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Rangoon’s most famous Pagoda. This image was taken in 1984, before the demonstrations and elections that resulted in the power grab by the present military junta. Nikon FM2, Nikkor 28mm lense, kodachrome slide film. / Featured on Home Page, July 6, 2009…
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Not the Orwell 1984, though Burma has gone that way since this picture was taken. Back in the 80’s the city was decrepit, the buildings crumbling remains from the British empire, and the transport ancient, but, somehow, still functioning. Taken on Nikon FM2, 28mm Nikkor lense, kodachrome slide film.
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One hopes these Burmese students are still alive, have finished their studies and are living in peace. Four years after this shot was taken on the streets of Rangoon, Burma degenerated into an Orwellian totalitarian state and the plight of this beautiful country’s friendly people has been jeopardised by a ruthless military junta. Taken with a Nikon FM2, 50mm 1.4 Nikkor lense, kodachrome slide film, scanned with a Plustek slide scanner.
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Burma Rangoon Shwedagon Paya Entrance Lion at dusk
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From my district last week! / /
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A market in a sludgy lane in Rangoon Burma, 1984.
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A market vendor enjoys a cheroot – Inle Lake. Shan State – Burma.
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A Chin Lady lights up. She was photographed in her village about 100 miles up the Kaladan River in remote Rakhine State – Western Burma. The Chins are among the poorest of Burma’s many ethnic minorities. Chin ladies are famous for their facial tattoos.
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“An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a wackin’ white cheroot.” Rudyard Kipling When I first visited Bagan in the mid-90’s, the market was full of cheroot-puffing ladies. When I returned in 2006 – there were only a few. Nothing lasts forever.
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An Intha mother and daughter on dead calm Inle Lake – Shan State, Burma.
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