A fresh meat stall in a busy Rangoon (Yangon) market, Burma. 1986. Scanned Kodachrome 64.
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.
Monk meditating – ‘Shwedagon Pagoda’, Yangon (Myanmar).
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.
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.
A cheroot smoker at the market in Bagan, Burma – one of the last of a dying breed.
A couple of cucumber vendors at the vegetable market in Mandalay, Burma.
A village girl I saw on the Upper Irrawaddy River in Burma. Shot with a Pentax K10D and a Sigma 70-300mm lens.
Small boy sitting on a footpath down a lane in Rangoon.
As 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.
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.
shwedagon paya. yangon, myanmar.
Handsome novice monk who showed me around the old monastery in Bhamo, Kachin State, Burma, (Myanmar).
Burma Rangoon Shwedagon Paya Entrance Lion at dusk
A market vendor enjoys a cheroot – Inle Lake. Shan State – Burma.
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.
“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.
An Intha mother and daughter on dead calm Inle Lake – Shan State, Burma.
A smiling monk and a golden Pagoda, the Shwedagon is found in Yangon, Myanmar.
dusk arrives and so do many more people, I guess from their work, to sit and pray, children play, couples meet, families relax, the whole area becomes a wonderful meeting place.. / Shwedagon Pagoda, / October 2009
as darkness falls and the tonnes of gold leaf covering the pagoda is gradually illuminated, its beauty defies description…the atmosphere is golden!
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