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May 7, 2012

Moonshine | Ho Koyn #4, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Plus-x
Homemade rice liquor, stored in gas cans and funneled into an old water bottle. The Akha family sells a kilo of liquor for twice the price of a kilo of raw rice, but when the amount of time and work in making the wine was considered, the profit seemed less significant.

May 5, 2012

World Peace Pagoda | Eastern Shan State, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x
Young novices conscripted into building their own monastery.

World Peace Pagoda | Eastern Shan State, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x
Young novices conscripted into building their own monastery.

May 4, 2012

Walking home | Won Sai, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Plus-x@400
In the dry rice paddy.

(Note the boys in the back have balloons. Again.)

Temporary monks | Won Sai, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Plus-x@400
Temporary monkhood doesn't prevent young lads from smoking cigs on their motorbikes and rolling up on the "angels" who sell roadside liquor.

River crossing | Won Sang, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Plus-x
Baby monks.

May 3, 2012

Ready for my close-up | Ho Land, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x
Energetic little girl finally managed to dress herself so I could take a photo.

Free balloons for the kids | Won Mei, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x
Some organized tour group reached a few villages just before we did and would distribute balloons each time...kept encountering scenes like this.

May 2, 2012

Big sister | Won Mei, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x

Construction site | Won Mei, Myanmar

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Tri-x

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