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Monkcam | Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon

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January 24, 2009

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Olympus OM-2N | Kodak Portra 800
Monks in Myanmar had more material goods than I would have expected. There were a few with digital cameras, lots with radios. Later in an airport, I saw one with a huge DSLR. I was never lucky enough to find myself in conversation with some of those English-speaking monks that flocked to the white tourists, I only got the ones who didn't know a single word...otherwise I would have asked if these items were leftover from their non-monk lives, or gifts, or possibly even purchased with donated money? I was especially curious about the DSLR.

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