At dusk the main street of Pai, North Thailand, comes to life in a menagerie of buskers and vendors, tourists and hawkers. Sizzling aromas share the air with the sound of laughter and banter in two dozen languages. The colours are so vivid, what else can the photographer do but shoot black&white?
Portraits
Nepal on a Tightrope
Annapurna, Himalaya, Ian Brown, Landscape Photography, Landscapes, mountains, Nepal, People, Photography, Portraits, Second Coming, Stone Roses, Street Photography, Travel, Travel Photography, Trekking, Uncategorized
You should have been an angel, it would of suited you…
My gold-leafed, triptych angel, she knows just what to do…
Will the sun shine all sweetness and light?
Burn us to a cinder, our third stone satellite?
She’s all that ever mattered, and all that ever will
My cup, it runneth over, I’ll never get my fill…
The boats in the harbour slip from their chains…
Head for new horizons, let’s do the same
I’m on a tightrope, baby, nine miles high…
Striding through the clouds, on my ribbon in the sky…
I’m on a tightrope, baby, one thing I’ve found, I don’t know how to stop, and it’s a long, long, way down
The red bricks of Bhaktapur took a pounding the day the earthquake struck.
Langtang shook like a baby’s rattle the day the earthquake struck.
Not all of the buildings you see still stand. Yet one thing does: the memory of Nepal as it was, as it will be again.
All images supplied by Ⓒtrespasserine2014
Lyrics supplied by the Stone Roses, Tightrope, Second Coming, 1994
Small Worlds Collide
Chiang Mai, People, Photography, Portraits, Shan People, Street Photography, Thailand, Travel, Travel Photography, Tribes, Uncategorized
A dozen tribal groups from the rugged and remote hill country on the Thai-Burmese border, including the famous long-necked Karen and the Shan ethnic Burmese, congregate in a small town called Maehong Son in the far northwest of Thailand to celebrate education, and to light votive candles in a ceremony of peace and togetherness during the Small World Festival, held on Christmas night 2016..
Camera: Nikon d610
Lenses: Sigma 20mm F.14, Nikkor 50mm F1.8, & Nikkor 24-85mm F3.5
The Blind Salamander 