Burma
Bagan Horse and Cart This was taken on the way to Sunset Temple. A specially chosen temple adopted by tourists for having the best view of the sun setting. We rented bicycles from a very nice local man across the street from our hostel, we managed to navigate our way to the temple with the help of some local children. Eventually we arrived, took off our shoes, climbed the steep ancient steps, found our spot, got comfortable and watched the magic unfold. |
Temple Crew From left to right: Casey Rigney, Ali Drummond, Kenny Reed, Patrik Wallner |
End of Roll in Naypyidaw A local girl from the desolate new capital fashioning traditional Burmese face paint. |
Kenny Reed - Frontside Flip On the campus of our strange hotel/amusement park, moments from our hotel rooms Kenny performs a tweaked fs flip on an unfinished mountain replica. |
Decorative Gold Leaf The great Shwedagon Pagoda can be seen from virtually anywhere in the city, and the citizens of Yangon literally live out their everyday lives in its shadow. |
The Entrance Random fact: In 1852, during the second war, the British occupied the pagoda for 77 years and pillaged its treasures. |
Novice Burmese Monks These young monks surprisingly obliged when i asked for them to pose in-front of this column. Afterwards it was apparent that they shouldn't really do this, their teacher wasn't impressed. |
The Holy Stairs I was perched at the bottom of these stairs for almost half and hour in hope for a lucky break in the crowd. My patience paid off in the end but initially i wanted the full width of the stairs. When a monk finally came down at the right time there was some people walking up on the left, i had to crop them out and settle for this composition. |
Buddha Inside all of these temples you would find Buddha's of all sizes and decoration. Most of them had local Buddhist's praying so i didn't want to disturb them, i found this charming one in a more quieter part of the temple. |
Burmese Street Smiler This was taken out of a slow moving taxi whilst searching for spots in Yangon. Behind her is a packed bus full with people coming home from work. You would never guess that this was taken during the noisy and polluted hustle and bustle of rush hour. Her smile was so spontaneous and natural, it's one of my favourites from the trip. |
Fresh Roll in an Ancient City After the trauma of a few previous unsuccessful rolls i loaded up praying that nothing will go wrong this time. Yangon was good to us, a very photogenic city. Spot Zvereff on the back seat. |
Ali Drummond We arrived at the local skatepark in Yangon with lots of products to donate. Having lived there for a while now Ali has made friends with all of the locals. To say the kids were grateful was an understatement, Brian the photographer took a great group photo later on that day. We drew names out of a hat for the larger items so it was fair. |
Denny Pham - Backside Ollie Denny floats a perfect backside ollie at the only known skatepark in the country. |
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