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We had to travel up the Irrawaddy River from Mandalay to visit ancient temples. The river was wide and muddy. The sky seemed to glitter in the hammering sun. Puffy white clouds lent a Sunday picnic feel to our outing as we chugged past … Continue reading
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Diagonal Lines I’ve got hundreds of photos of the leg-rowing fishermen at Inle Lake. That’s what happens when you take a photo tour. You may come home with 80 gigabytes of photos, but many are the same photo. Well, more … Continue reading
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With Photoshop you can change the atmosphere of a photograph, just by using curves or levels. Here, I’ve darkened the shadows until they are black. This makes the whites whiter. Of course the monk’s robes went black as well, but … Continue reading
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A lotus pond on Inle Lake. Here lotus stems are harvested. This was painstaking work. She had to cut the stem but not sever the fibers. Then she laid them on her table and rolled them into one thread using … Continue reading
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Monks carrying their begging bowls are accompanied by village women going to market as another day begins in Burma. The small bridge passes over farm lands irrigated with water from the Irrawaddy River. Burma is a fertile land and was … Continue reading
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A woman gazes into the distance after bathing in Burma’s Irrawaddy river. This photo would look idyllic if it weren’t for the buckets of freshly washed clothing. Even in what looks like paradise, it seems we must carry on … Continue reading
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Sunset with Pink Clouds Inle Lake, Burma I think I shot this from the veranda of our little house on the water. The hotel consisted of maybe 30 or more little huts, but with all the amenities, built in … Continue reading
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South Seas Beauty I saw this woman in a small village market. Of course, I was attracted to her because she had a bundle of foliage on her head. She was busy shopping and I couldn’t get the shot I … Continue reading
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A village in somewhere in Myanmar. Village women carrying baskets hanging from a stick on their shoulders head homeward after a day’s work in the fields. Now to make dinner and afterward perhaps spin thread on an old fashioned spinning wheel or … Continue reading
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Mandalay, Myanmar…the Royal Palace The Royal Palace once consisted of hundreds of wooden buildings that have been destroyed by both Allied and Japanese armies during WWII. When I hear the words “wooden buildings” the palace sounds rather unimpressive. I think of … Continue reading
