Hi Flexers, Have been resting from the internet for awhile while traveling in Asia and am now back in internet wired Canada. Esther and I spent 10 days in Burma (Myanmar) in March - a country where I worked for a while in the early 70's and which I haven't visited since the mid 80's. The Burmese are lovely people - despite 60 years of oppressive military dictatorship. Over the next few days I will be posting some photos of the 10 days and later, I am going to revisit my slides from the 1970's. First pictures: We arrived in Rangoon (Yangon) late at night and the next morning early flew early to Pagan (Bagan). We arranged for a guide and driver to give us a two person photo tour of the area which has something like 1600 pagodas dating from the 10 - 12th centuries forward. Here's a sunrise - taken with the X Pro 1 and the 90 Elmarit from the vantage point of a pagoda - several stories up. It was good luck and good planning that got the basket of the balloon silhouetted against the sun: < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BaganBalloonSunriseW.jpg.html > < http://tinyurl.com/crrebzz > And here is Esther's sunset picture taken looking west from another pagoda. I really like the way she has lined up the spires of the pagodas and the horse cart gives perspective to the scene. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BaganSunsetHorseEW.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/cyjagne Here is my sunset picture taken from the roof of a pagoda with me leaning out beyond a ruined wall. The smoke from fires obscured the actual setting. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BaganSunset90ElXw.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/c5becva Our driver, Soemoo, was an enthusiastic photographer. He had been given a digital camera by a grateful Chinese tourist and he brought it with him wherever he drove us to take pictures as we did. Here he is, holding on to me, as I lean out to get a clear picture around a ruined wall of the setting sun. The Burmese have a different sense of personal space. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/SoemooHCw.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/czajueo Here's my horse cart sunset picture - with two carts - but a different perspective from Esther's on the pagoda spires. I think I prefer her view: < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/Sunset2HorseHw.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/cz9ah8l The farmers in Bagan deal with a dry continental climate and are subsistent. They value their oxen: < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BullockCartw.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/cebpucn Three monks in Bagan - it is cool in the mornings and very hot by noon - so one of the monks is protecting his pate: < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/3Monksw.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/cjxs75o More later - please look large. All C&C welcome as usual. Howard (in sunny, windy, Vancouver) ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/
