https://www.bradburylens.com/865004006353 daily 0.75 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539059014485-HAISHJQN5RV9IDW6KRH0/Racing+from+a+storm.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539917280848-2O3BNN2SW6HPXRALU535/Girls+of+Lemanak+River.jpg People in Place - Swimming with Girls in Lemanak River Nothing better than cooling off in the river after a half day of travel up river by longboat. The Iban Dayak people of inner Borneo were awesome to stay with in their traditional longhouse. They were gracious and giving. 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031195343-M1ER0TPBVXY3EFRK67RC/529A5076.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538950717945-P4DYC6TD6ZPAKMU5VYZU/Making+a+Shave+Look+Good.jpg People in Place - Making a Shave Look Good Outside of Lijiang, China, 2004 Fuji Pro Slide Film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538950141860-3ZVAU1U1QX7JD4EY7529/India+2009+592+-+Version+2+-+Version+2.jpg People in Place - Refugee in Your Own Country Floods of Southern India in 2009 left thousands without homes. The ancient world heritage sites were closed off and the now homeless were allowed to inhabit the ruins. They slept, cooked and hung laundry throughout the ancient monuments. There was sadness, but joy as well despite losing everything they owned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538950983892-L75AQ1HZIJX5H6M1XECX/India+2009+639+-+Version+2.jpg People in Place - Colour Bomb, Badami, India India is a place of intense colour. It is often lurid, disorganized and indiscriminate. For Western sensibilities, that include blacks, silver, tan and blues, it seems like an alerting and alarming choice to make. The difference is stark and needs to be approached from a different understanding I think? Great pride and even personal power must come from dressing this way? It is however, candy to a camera lens and is magic to a creative mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538950772367-7O4C1UEJOL1HAYU7MYNL/IMG_2305+-+Version+2+%281%29.jpg People in Place - The First Photo I have written a blog in Yesterday’s Coffee around the amazing experience of showing a picture to a 101 year old woman in Cambodia called The Heart Steps Ahead of the Lens, Adventures in Cambodia. I would love it if you would take the time to visit with this story? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538950682778-1NNLNMVQNLVTO4ECXBHH/India+2009+579.jpg People in Place - New Delhi from Jama Masjid The Jama Masjid in Delhi was erected in 1656, yet it is still a fully working mosque with a capacity of up to 25,000 people. Like many of the great Masjids, it is pinned in place by four massive minarets on each corner. A thin twisting staircase can take you to a tiny look out where you can feel a cool breeze and a 360 degree view. I had just stopped a man and his children from using a Sharpie to tattoo their names into the edifice when I turned around in time to snap this shot of a your man surveying the streets below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538955542876-NTOWAJJN1OQ9Q2VYIP0B/Captain+Can+Tho.jpg People in Place - Captain Fantastic 5:30 am is when the Phong Dien floating market reaches its fever pitch. The Captain deftly handles the traffic as he pushes boats aside and helps me to find a perfect vantage point to observe or become a part of the action. This is one of the oldest and least visited markets in Vietnam because of its distance from any big tourist routes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538950810645-SRG1RR8H14W3JY0FZ0QI/IMG_2163+-+Version+2.jpg People in Place - Age Gap From 1975 to 1979 Pol Pot’s socialist agrarian republic, founded on Maoism killed approximately 1.5 to 3 million of its own people. His party of Khmer Rouge soldiers made up of young Cambodians rounded up business professionals, teachers, artists and the educated and relocated the population to forced labour camps where they were put to work in manufacturing rice and other crops. Physical abuse, malnutrition and disease proliferated during those 4 years. People suspected of being opposition, most living in the cities, were taken to the “killing fields” where 25% of the country’s population were summarily executed using largely farm implements to save bullets, and buried in mass graves. Of that population 20,000 were sent to one of 196 prisons for torturing, of which the famous S-21 was the most prolific. Only 7 people have been counted as survivors of this gruesome imprisonment. As you travel the country roads to the North of that country, near the city of Battambang you begin to notice the age gaps appear. There exist mostly the very young and the very old that survived. There is a whole generation missing. Still you find a warmth and kindness here even at this particular roadside stall where an old woman stuffs bamboo tubes with coconut sticky rice that are roasted over smouldering charcoal. Sitting in the dirt of the street and eating side by side was a great privilege. Cambodia has so much to teach us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538950843392-O856UV4RWFY59RS2HJ9C/The+Happiest+Kids+You+Ever+Saw.jpg People in Place - Village Fun In Lombok, Indonesia We were already 2 weeks into our 3 week expedition circumnavigating the Indonesian island of Lombok during Ramadan. Our driver, Mr. Happy, took us through a shortcut through a winding mountain pass to a tiny homestay buried in staircases of rice paddies. There was a deaf boy there called Darmanis who was overjoyed when we agreed to let him guide us into some mountain villages with no road access. We hiked all day to reach a village of 80 people. As we rounded a ridge we could see the village of thatched elephant grass roofs across the jungle valley. Word had got out about our arrival and you could hear the village chanting with excitement. We arrived to fanfare as we emptied our bag of candies and pens to thrilled children. They had not had visitors that looked like us before and it made you feel as excited as they were. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538950890343-1OU8Q7LWVI7VBOJCJWIN/Old+China.jpg People in Place - Nakhi Deep in the mountains of Yunnan Province to the North of China nearest the Tibetan boarder exists Lijiang or Dayan Old Town. The 1000 year old town built of ancient houses of legendary timber beam construction is a magical place with cobbled streets polished from a millennia of use. Lanterns light the evenings like stars in the sky and Dongjing classical music players practise with their windows open for all. The local Nakhi people collect in a round main square to dance and clap along. Only the oldest remain dressed as they were so long ago even still. The women in particular, can be seen heaving huge heavy sacks of supplies around on their backs bent forward in a shuffle paying little mind to the strange site of a Western traveller. The thin mountain air keeps everyone moving slow as we all try to shake off the cold from the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538954336919-UCLB9WH92UY1LFG73NCM/Kaboom%21.jpg People in Place - Kaboom Intense colour takes hold in an outskirts of Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1544828471378-QJQ4HJZEMICD9584N2ZE/Udaipur%27s+Chai.jpg People in Place - Udaipur's Chai A tight alleyway leads to a stone gate with a place to park and drink a chai from the local tea shop. Like coffee shops of the West, people relax, read the newspaper or just make a few notes about what’s on their mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538955475708-4UR09Q8C1D0DPJLEIP1E/IMG_5960.jpg People in Place - The Kind and the Curious, Sapa, Vietnam The Northern Vietnamese town of Sapa is a delight. It is a mixed up, intoxicating solution of old Hmong tribes with the need to satiate the desires of well-healed travellers. Sapa at this time was difficult to get to: a full over-night train, then a very steep and winding road through the most beautiful semblance of rice fields stacked as if it were a wedding cake. Our research brought us to the conclusion that we wanted to meet the local Black Hmong where they lived. We found a guide that would find us a family to prepare food and have lunch with. After that we hiked into the fields to meet families hard at work cutting swaths of rice stalks for animal feed. A highway is planned that will cut a full night and half a day journey down to 3 - 4 hours. What future will these villages have? How will they retain the most important elements of their culture? Will it strengthen their resolve or will it collapse under the pressures? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538956100415-MRHXZKVAQMY828QOXX5D/IMG_5989.jpg People in Place - Tam Coc Boats, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam Tam Coc is magical. It is a landscape of karst limestone pinnacles of stone that jut from perfectly flat golf green rice fields. From the air this must look like fingers pointing at the moon? The area is punctuated by a unique, snaking river that over millions of years has built itself tunnels through these hills. This bizarre landscape brings with it thousands of tourists hungry to take in such a spectacle. On busy days, hundreds of boats crowd the river system with boat captains that use their legs and feet to row their vessels adding to the very special feelings a first time visitor gets here. At one point, our Tam Coc day stopped for a lunch at Chez Loan where I had the most memorable meal of Banana Flower Salad. I still remember this remarkable meal years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539056071642-IC0D22RHB1NZFWOFOJTT/IMG_2847.jpg People in Place - Graffiti Love, Taman Sari Complex, Yogyakarta, Java Deep in the old city walls of Yogyakarta is the 17th century water palace known for its sophisticated natural cooling systems of water running through it at one time. It can be found in the Taman Sari complex and it now provides an oasis from a bustling city for its locals. Young boys and girls can be found sitting close to one another eating or just talking. Graffiti is ubiquitous throughout with most scribblings professing love to one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539059077094-D44ASMQC5JPFH34DVNYF/Racing+from+a+storm.jpg People in Place - Racing the Storm, Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo If you are travelling to Kuching, Malaysian Borneo, it’s an easy trip out to see some pretty amazing wildlife, floral and fauna of Bako National Park. First thing after getting off of the bus is to locate a boat captain who understands tidal charts and how to maneuver the water filled sandbanks on the way. There you can hike trails with more slippery tree roots than actual dirt. We are here to see if we can spot the bulbous nosed proboscis monkeys and see the incredible pitcher plants littering the sides of the trails here. As a storm approached, our boat captain beaconed us past the wild boars on the beach to join him in the boat to race the growing clouds back to civilization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539059160565-PND7FDTR3JMWQ9S7F6GI/City+Palace+Colours.jpg People in Place - City Palace Colours A caretaker of the City Palace in Udaipur takes a rest while a painting of one of the past owners of this palace watches over him. Maharana Sheem Singh ruled in the late 1700s. The carpets here were loomed by inmates of the prison at that time and the furniture is very traditional Rajasthani. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539131727732-5WRCVWRV5W22WEE1GP8I/Chai+Stop.jpg People in Place - Chai Stop This is one of the best Chai stops in the oldest part of Varanasi. A fan keeps the open flames hot enough to fully boil the chai. It is always served in tiny clay vessels that are smashed after you sip your tea. Probably the best recycling you can find. Nothing goes to waste here and it is by far the most compact of shops; basically taking up the space of a doorway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539132351589-HGR8U53WM9C2O83N7TY9/That%27s+Not+My+Bag.jpg People in Place - That's Not My Bag Sonepur Mela in Bihar is an agricultural fair, but crowds really come for the rides, to purchase cheap and cheerful goods, see original craftwork and join in on the fun of being around a lot of people. Bags are just one of the colourful things you can pick up here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539136339843-0QB86CW1XPOLCR288TF8/Untouchable%3F.jpg People in Place - Untouchable? The caste system of India can be very cruel. Called the Dome people of Varanasi (which may be derogatory) they are the lowest of the castes and are in charge of the cremation fires. It is said they are not allowed to touch anything others need to touch such as glassware in a restaurant. They are also reputed to be rich from their duty of death. They sometimes resemble gypsies even though they have been in this place longer than recorded history. They were wonderful and inviting, curious and respectful. They also looked for any way to make money. After every photo, there were protestations that money needed to change hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539136473793-EUQYD6ZGT97IB82YT23C/IMG_2738.jpg People in Place - Smoked Fish, Yogyakarta, Indonesia It never ceases to amaze me what people in large cities do for survival. IN Yogyakarta, Indonesia a man throws a fishing net in a culvert running under inner-city bridges. He fills his basket with his catch so the pressure is off. Time for an end of day smoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539136762531-HK3E02Q66LY2JAG6KTYR/Varanasi+Flower+Market.jpg People in Place - Varanasi Flower Market One of the busiest markets in Varanasi is the hard to find flower market. Garlands of marigolds flood the market and the senses. Business is brisk and nothing remained still for very long. These flowers are used in ritual for both prayer offerings and for cremation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539461074984-XKNANSJFUMPZNR8ZKTRA/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%286%29.jpg People in Place - A Warrior Past A lifetime ago the Iban tribes of Borneo were known as the most fierce warriors, taking and collecting the heads of their enemies as well as maintaining the tradition, meaning and beliefs around their body tattoos. Although this reputation and ritual has disappeared, many of their rituals and beliefs still hold true today. Their way of life remains similar such as living communally in multi-familial longhouses and subsistence living. Too old to work the hillside pepper and rice crops, the older men and women rest languidly and listen to Malay music broadcast from great distance, the buzz of children now spending the weekdays and nights at their far away school. In the early evening, the quiet is interrupted by the thrumming of the petrol generator allowing an hour or so of light enough to cook and visit with each others’ families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569362761491-MU0C6ADTGD7CFSXASG56/IMG_1046+%281%29.jpg People in Place - Setting Up Shop A Saddle Bronc rider sets up his mount in preparation to be fired out of the shoot to an uncertain future. The Brooks, Alberts Rodeo is a favourite as the access for the bold is a look behind the scenes and deep into a history of horsemanship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1632623849541-HP53GULXNR5BQ7PMJ818/Colt%2Band%2BDale_2_230921.jpg People in Place - Dale and Colt at Bouvry Farm Lucky enough to spend time with Dale Hannis, the cattle herdsman at Bouvry farm. He looks after mostly Angus cattle with his trusty partner Colt. Dale has a passion for his work with cattle. “I love being a herdsman!”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030981369-NGM9XXCDYD2JOQMMO23V/529A5569.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255918030-AKWRGLNE79OC8ABYGJSK/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-35.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576362592256-LF6V2L1BRXESUIYV85YG/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-30.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861290003-FGOJJ3ZVM42FQWYTPXJO/Krathong+Surfing%2C+Sukhothai.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576256846067-A27EYNXUWT7YEOSS3F7I/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-24.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576256928827-S1G45HVEKFLRY5PMU5EW/Thailand+2019+Surin+Banquet-10.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861363859-IDOHWBG1JSJNNXLUBX82/Dumby+on+Parade.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031983051-1RVQM1BLESWCC2EDDFMX/529A5507.jpg People in Place - Model Behaviour During a family celebration in Batuan Village, Bali, and with our friend Wayan praying at the family temple, I took the time to try and engage with the family. I stumbled on this most beautiful of creatures sitting still and watching the goings on. No words were spoken as she radiated through the lens and into my imagination. Beauty is in everyone in this small painting village that I have been traveling to all month to visit artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031195343-M1ER0TPBVXY3EFRK67RC/529A5076.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031466589-MFCK4LG3VHNS3KF9K98M/529A5560.jpg People in Place - Temple Sleep Family temple celebrations start at around 3:00am when the men get up early to begin roasting the suckling pig over an open flame. The women prepare dishes like Lawar and blood sausage. The temple is in the yard and the family gathers for prayer and offerings. Food comes next. After that, everyone hits exhaustion. Then we all get back on our motorbikes and head home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030981369-NGM9XXCDYD2JOQMMO23V/529A5569.jpg People in Place - Wayan's Place The day after a family ceremony the kitchen is quiet over at Wayan’s place. His mother and father treat up to some treats and fruits. We have a funny conversation about how much tourists pay for food and make a loose plan to create a fruit empire, then burst into laughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255918030-AKWRGLNE79OC8ABYGJSK/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-35.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576256128441-SHWDDAX5A1NO0Y020PCV/Thailand+2019+Bang+Sophan-38.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861290003-FGOJJ3ZVM42FQWYTPXJO/Krathong+Surfing%2C+Sukhothai.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576363047072-QDSW3AJIN7201RMR0V11/Thailand+2019+Surin+Banquet.jpg People in Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576362592256-LF6V2L1BRXESUIYV85YG/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-30.jpg People in Place https://www.bradburylens.com/798817030644 daily 0.75 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861437278-2TJT7N1WDVWORSN230U5/Khrabi.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538971397040-G0DJF9IHAYMIGY79CMR7/Boat+Brothers.jpg Special Places - Boat Brothers November mornings can be magical in India. Mist shrouds waterways giving everything a deep and moody calm. The Taj Mahal is just opening its doors to visitors and there is still a quiet about the place. You can just sit and look at this amazing structure as its spirit talks to you. The Taj is a romantic gesture by Shah Jahan to the memory of his wife. It is made entirely of white marble with inlaid semi-precious stones. Security at the Taj is now very strict which includes the river and its banks. By chance we found our way to this boat and its brother duo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031055279-6E9NVNTK5KMGZU24OBU2/529A5107.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538877520020-FW0T20V1SVN57LC18RDN/Datia+Palace%2C+The+Skyscraper+of+its+time..jpg Special Places - Datia Palace, The Skyscraper Of His Time Datia Palace, also known as Bir Singh Palace is situated nearly 75 km from Gwalior City in Madhya Pradesh. It is a full 7 floors high! This palace was also built by Bir Singh Deo as was the Jahangir Mahal in Orchha and also like that palace, this one too has had only one night slept in it by its owner since becoming a reality the early 1600s. This Palace was reputedly made by spending 35 Lakh Rupees (78 thousand US dollars) and it took nine years to build it. It is situated on an isolated rock on the western side of the city Datia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1558814267007-4P5Y2DID3WE0DQ4TAMW5/IMG_0414.jpg Special Places - Stupa-fied The night before the official start of Thadingyut Light Festival gets the ball rolling with thousands of visitors that quickly swells to many thousands. Even then, it never loses its sense of calm and friendliness. Trying to capture the immense gold stupa of Shwedagon in a single shot is near impossible. The legend of Myanmar's most famous stupa is that it is 2500 years old. The top "umbrella" is gold and loaded with 5448 diamonds and 2317 Rubies. The oval "bud" at the top is also solid gold and encrusted with donated jewellery, rings and it is topped with a huge 78 carat diamond. The seemingly tiny "flag" at the top is also ornately decorated. The stupa's "bell" is made of brick, but gilded in thick plates of solid gold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538954369566-AK6TEZBGDS451I2UMVZS/Boat+Brothers.jpg Special Places - Boat Brothers November mornings can be magical in India. Mist shrouds waterways giving everything a deep and moody calm. The Taj Mahal is just opening its doors to visitors and there is still a quiet about the place. You can just sit and look at this amazing structure as its spirit talks to you. The Taj is a romantic gesture by Shah Jahan to the memory of his wife. It is made entirely of white marble with inlaid semi-precious stones. Security at the Taj is now very strict which includes the river and its banks. By chance we found our way to this boat and its brother duo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538956973047-L77QSKGT59HXVDKLJWH1/IMG_2230.jpg Special Places - Ubein By Night Night falls on Ubein Bridge just outside of Mandalay. Iridescent evening light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538956906171-KJDMN64FDLID0VV03LI4/IMG_3072.jpg Special Places - Three Days In A Longboat Travelling a whole day in a speeding longboat along the snaking, thin ribbon of water known as the Irrawaddy River might not sound too comfortable? Less so when you think this has only recently been opened to foreign travel. Even less when you hear this is deep into Opium territory, a highly protected, quiet place. We arrive on our first night in the south lake late in the day and climb the steps to yet another mass of stupas and a gold Buddha. The very next morning we have lunch with a "Forest Monk", as they are known. We eat through breakfast, then lunch all the while drinking strong coffee and discussing his past military career, the opium trade, politics and the school he is attempting to create. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539056835759-KK8GQ600CEC9X8H5C21O/Temple+Calm.jpg Special Places - Tourist Film at Wat Pho, Bangkok, Thailand Year 2000. We arrive at Wat Pho on a steamy morning. Dramatic skies were brewing with massive cumulus clouds infiltrating Bangkok’s skyline. It was definitely going to rain like a bastard! This is one of Thailand’s most important Buddhist temples. As with many of the world’s oldest cultural icons, Wat Pho had statues that took on the most human of qualities. Gold is everywhere and the skill and craftsmanship is unparalleled. We had a Thai massage that day on the Wat grounds while the streets flooded with the downpour that afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539136877430-X562N0RN7HJ4MI0H5HQJ/IMG_3114+-+Version+2.jpg Special Places - Borobudur, Java, Indonesia We travelled across the Indonesian island of Java to stay close to the world’s largest Buddhist temple, Borobudur. Borobudur was constructed in the 9th century and was abandoned as the Hindu religion came into play in Indonesia. It was buried by volcanic ash and hidden for close to 1000 years until, it has been said, a farmer struck his plow on the tip of the temple. In 1814, after hearing of this discovery, Sir Thomas Raffles whom ruled Java at the time, initiated the digging of the site to reveal a huge complex. 4:30 in the morning we climbed a local hill by flashlight to await the moment the sun came up behind the monument. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539138564611-KQYVHTZSLF6ZZYPW281U/Tri-Shaw+Rest.jpg Special Places - Tri-Shaw Rest An old tri-shaw takes a rest against the blue wall of the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion in Penang, Malaysia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539138645371-HFXF32Y90Z05VG9OZMH7/Blue+Wash+Houses+of+Jodhpur.jpg Special Places - The Blue City of Jodhpur, India From the flanks of Mehranghar Fort you can look across the great and most colourful city of Jodhpur. This luscious sea blue colour comes from the Brahmin priest caste that lived there, but is now incorporated by most that reside there. It is an unforgettable punctuation of colour in an otherwise camel coloured expanse of the Thar Desert. Mehranghar Fort is a massive 15th Century complex perched on the top of a hill overlooking the town and was one of our favourite places to spend a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539138760463-HGJ0J55M8LLYTY60NUL3/Short+List+1+-+Version+2.jpg Special Places - For All The Tea in Sri Lanka In the very centre of the teardrop-shaped island country of Sri Lanka is the perfectly named city of Kandy. It exists with the exotically rugged mountains that surround place names like World’s End, Lipton Hill and Horton’s Plain. We jump on a slow moving train that climbs from our departure of Bandarawela a place that encompasses old British pastimes of tea, hunting and colonialism. It clanks and rumbles through neatly trimmed tea rows and history plantations. The views are so spectacular that you sit at the edge of your wooden seat shared with locals and monks alike. This train ride should be a World Heritage Site, but it is maintained as a coal driven link from the past to the present for many who ride it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539138821001-D37TCMKDVWADXJB91ZU6/Popcorn+hills%2C+White+Sand.jpg Special Places - Popcorn Hills of the White Sand Desert, Egypt I stand on the bumper of our Land Rover to get a better view. In our 5 day trip through the Western Desert of Egypt, I am learning how to drive on sand by our driver Kaled. We sleep on the sand or in old and dusty colonial era hotels: the feature of any of the small oasis towns freckled across our path. This may be the most adventure lone travellers can have? On the way, we find food and spend time with Bedouin, come face to face with 5000 year old mummified priests and explore 4AD cemeteries like Bagawat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1578869071797-MK9P280TKNWAFUG8A33Z/India%2B2009%2B132%2B-%2BVersion%2B2.jpg Special Places - Temple Hill, Hampi Viewing the 16th century Sri Virupaksha Temple from the top of Hemakutta Hill in Hampi is one of the great moments in life. Hampi seems made by giants and then by men. Huge rounded boulders are strewn across the hilly land. Rocks are piled high in places offering holes, caves and points in which Sadhus still make their meditation spots: sometimes for years. This is now a tourist destination and a backpacker hang out with a breezy relaxed pace. By making friends with the custodian of the temple, we were able to join him around midnight, and with flashlights in hand we unlocked a gate and climbed the tight steps to the very top to sit and watch the stars move across the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539138964349-BCK5C318NQ2Y4XHY8BBP/At+the+feet+of+the+Buddha.jpg Special Places - At The Feet Of The Buddha Temple ruins in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. Southern Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539139067301-D0N8E5PA843XVQXDA5VG/IMG_0535.jpg Special Places - Shwezigon Pagoda Lights Shwezigon Pagoda on one of the Thadingyut Light Festival evenings. The calm of candles and prayers continuously interrupted by fireworks being launched from the outstretched arms of men and boys. Handfuls of fire crackers thrown to the air. Oblivious monks pray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539139163163-Z44N9YVUCLSRWRLQI7RV/DSC00953.jpg Special Places - Shwe Inthein, Myanmar A total of 1054 Stupas packed into a tight enclosure date from the 17th and 18th centuries. Well worth the long boat trip here. A warning to those that venture these distances - this is a confining place. Along a very thin ribbon of water you see lush green hills, but just beyond are the no-man’s land of the opium trade. This is a there and back again location. We had arranged a room overnight in the only hotel at the very tail of the river. Later that night our boat Captain pulled us into the night to join a local festival to the monks that involved the village in a tug-of-war contest. Our faces were met with surprise and then joy while we joined in the struggle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539462221874-W4L2MB7FLTVRHBQKE40Y/Angkor+Gate+Elephants.jpg Special Places - Angkor, Cambodia To say you have seen Angkor is a mistake. Seeing Angkor Wat means that you saw a fraction of Angkor city. The city itself was once the largest and most futuristic in the world with over a million citizens at one time. It is 200 square kilometres with 74 accessible sites. Just try and see all of them. We spent 7 days trying hitting the very best preserved sites, but also hiking out to some that felt like we were the explorers. As the evening draws near, bussed in visitors start to think of their next meal and a mass exodus takes place, some on the backs of elephants. Best visit at 5:30am and again around 4:30pm as the sun sets to feel the power of the place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539462293672-ERVR2URGRXXLMQ2R4DCB/Floating+in+Clear+Skies.jpg Special Places - The Nile Romantic There are rivers in the world that you know are the birthplace of religion, politics and history of man, but it is the Nile that encompasses all of these. Egypt, as I came to learn is the location of great religions, side by side, from the same seed. 3 days in a feluka on our way North, found us coming short of our target by a day. The winds were low and even the perfectly designed boats flapped their sails like a bird looking to take off. Our Captain Ziggy cared little. We had purchased an entire cooler of beer, enough for a football team and we had our Reggae tapes. His second make liked my headlamp, so I gave it to him to keep. The four of us gained a quick friendship in that time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539462341455-325TUHBNN6C26LFXMKTM/Shelley+at+Karnak.jpg Special Places - Karnak's Great Hypostyle Hall Karnak is Egypt’s largest temple. It is now stripped of its ancient colours, but still amazes. It was built in pieces over 1500 years of pharaohs and was in its glory from 1550 - 1069bc. Yep, that’s b.c.! Egypt to me was scents: fusty smells of millions of visitors lining inside the great Giza pyramids, millennia’s of dust and sand heated under sun, 5000 year old mummified remains with bandages torn by animal and wind. It was a blanket of tope littered with aspirational colour. It represents a continuous cycle of history being found and lost. No place feels like time travel as this place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539462475457-L8PAQM2NI2F5B4ODOVSA/Rice+Patty+Bali.jpg Special Places - Rice Fields of Bali If there is a “very best way” to see your first glimpse of Asia, it is with the tactile, sensory overload of Bali, Indonesia. Early morning walks along the paddy walls with the fragrant smell of smoke and the sound of children playing is arresting. Time passes you by sometimes slowly, other times as if it is blinked away. This is a spiritual place. Everything is more vibrant and life feels more vital. Love permeates everything and is there to discover when you decide to leave modernity to those that know how to use it. These were my feelings 20 years ago and time has passed for both of us. We have both had to get with the times, yet the spirit of love remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539462597935-PADE09ZC1JTS9OZXGJ6F/Gwalior+Fort%2C+Man+Mandir+Palace.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031914555-IITD70HW86NC8RV4FUQ1/529A5146.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576814080685-781B6OBKP55MMQO7OBU4/Thailand+2019+Yao+Yai-13.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255532693-QD64MX6NU4V1RI7V1SXA/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-51.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255570536-4A6C2CUNYF1Z9USJWQUM/Thailand+2019+Bang+Sophan-3.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255631599-SBFLED5UNCSV2YJCCADO/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-8.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576362584889-156AP9IR2RK0CLVIJZTE/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-46.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861329658-V8BQURLCDEH33S65SC3Q/Sukhothai.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031055279-6E9NVNTK5KMGZU24OBU2/529A5107.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031914555-IITD70HW86NC8RV4FUQ1/529A5146.jpg Special Places - Rainy Temple After a day of computer work, we hop on the motorbike and head out to the painting village of Penastanan and onward to the hillside temple there to find man-sized Carp in the fish ponds there and a temple meeting place, at the moment, being used by kids on skateboards practising on their grind skills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255570536-4A6C2CUNYF1Z9USJWQUM/Thailand+2019+Bang+Sophan-3.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255631599-SBFLED5UNCSV2YJCCADO/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-8.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576256846067-A27EYNXUWT7YEOSS3F7I/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-24.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576256928827-S1G45HVEKFLRY5PMU5EW/Thailand+2019+Surin+Banquet-10.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576362584889-156AP9IR2RK0CLVIJZTE/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-46.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576814080685-781B6OBKP55MMQO7OBU4/Thailand+2019+Yao+Yai-13.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861329658-V8BQURLCDEH33S65SC3Q/Sukhothai.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861363859-IDOHWBG1JSJNNXLUBX82/Dumby+on+Parade.jpg Special Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861437278-2TJT7N1WDVWORSN230U5/Khrabi.jpg Special Places https://www.bradburylens.com/iii daily 0.75 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576256036592-A29QFJX8ZD4KPRLKCQWL/Thailand+2019+Surin+Banquet-2.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538948897006-2DPGLXB4BMWVT8NWQ5VQ/India+2009+655+-+Version+2.jpg Portraits - Labour in Badami Badami town in Karnataka, India is built amongst the ancient temples that surround the man-made Agasthya Lake. The Chalukya Dynasty left behind monolithic cave temples that are awe-inspiring in their details. The town population was low during our visit because of the immense flooding that year spurred by the government discharging a river dam, killing hundred in the surrounding area. Everyone in Badami seemed to know that we braved the broken flooded roads to get there. A labourer rests after a long day of work in the town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949401871-BX8P3NSDYSAC1DSJ8MLL/India+2009+143+-+Version+2.jpg Portraits - Hanuman Temple Sadhu Hiking up the stairs of Anjanyah Hill to Hanuman Temple in Hampi, Karnataka, India we are force to rest regularly. The heat is excruciating and the exertion to climb to the top is best done in pieces. We are approached by one of the many Sadhus, or holy men, with an ask for alms. Sadhus live by the donations and will of others as part of relinquishing all of their worldly possessions, including money. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952749217-NOA90NI7UUV6NQK4WUXG/Career+Monk.jpg Portraits - Career Monk A monk waits on the bridge on the way to the main fort in Orchha to greet and make some money from his performances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949137067-9TY4LHF5UQU2IRRA2A3I/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width.jpg Portraits - Tribal Youth, Borneo Meet the next generation of Borneo’s Dayak Iban Tribe. This boy is covered in the traditional tattoo work that is meant to represent becoming a warrior and the various places he has visited in his life. The old men of the communal longhouse on the Lemanak River are adorned this way. Youth, as anywhere in the world, struggle with the draw of a modern way of life versus making a life in the longhouse and working the dry rice and pepper plantations that sustain the tribe. What will his decision be? At this moment, he appears to have one foot in either direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951272959-040YSQ68BI18VJCBIEYB/IMG_1084.jpg Portraits - The War Hero After sitting for a photograph, which he was incredibly pleased about, this farmer around Old Bagan proudly showed us pictures of him in his military uniform as well as a faded black and white of two stunningly handsome people in wedding attire. Others behind the scene excitedly point back and forth with surprise in their eyes attempting to make the connection between this man and the couple in the picture. Everyone eventually agrees that this man is impossibly handsome. He beams a smile for one final photo before we head back into the drizzling rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539140302161-S0RILZ26I2S6JC6PB7L3/The+Veil.jpg Portraits - Veiled Secrets India is where fashion meets functionality. A woman in Orchha, India uses her head cover to shield her from the sun while providing some privacy to a new face in their small village. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951317212-B19FVVXOEVSN1EBEARHU/IMG_1107.jpg Portraits - Comfort The rain had been steady that week in Bagan, Myanmar, but mostly it was a mix of grey and dark grey skies and a drizzle. On this day in a small village we were surprised by a sudden downpour which had everyone scurrying for their homes. We managed to find ourselves at the oldest house in the village. Open on one side with an overhanging roof, it seemed a community gathering spot for women and their crafts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951361831-W968WYROXRWIFEBUF14D/IMG_2092.jpg Portraits - Tat Monks Two monks invite us into their 175-year old home and monastery. They live there alone, but together. They parade us through unspeakably beautiful, priceless treasures, referred to as donations, from a day gone by. They sit in unfolded aluminium lawn chairs while we pad barefoot around their home come museum with huge teak floorboards creaking under every step. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538877742388-U8RH81MELH2RVS0BJ528/Snack+Time+Already%3F.jpg Portraits - Snack Time Already? I take a picture of a man at his food stall at the Sonepur Fair. He yells back into a dark cavern of a temporary building and his son comes out. He wants me to take a picture of his son with some of the things they make. He was so proud of his food and his son. It seemed like a big moment for the both of them. One thing you get from travel is that if you are interested in people, they are enthusiastic to show you what they are all about....which unleashes a flood of photo opportunities. Travel is awesome! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952642545-J34I5VJ8LK9Q3WNXDG01/Open+Hand.jpg Portraits - Open Hand A Sadhu holy man takes rest on a stone ledge leading up a steep stairwell near the top of Panchganga Ghat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952833403-GOWBOSYDECBA0E9HP44C/Beauty+in+a+Small+Package.jpg Portraits - Beauty In A Small Package A young girl stops at the front door of her home to welcome us to her village and show us her kitten and courtyard to her home. The rest of the family soon joins us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952888995-T9VF8SISQL17FA28WPBA/Prize+Fighter.jpg Portraits - The Prized Fighter The prize fighter can lift the greatest weights, is super fit, but heavy just the same. Kushti is the sport of kings in India, but is also built on the backs of some of the poorest. These Gladiators work hard for prize money and for food. Just before swinging these enormous wood weights onto his shoulders, he covers the posts and his shoulders in ghee (clarified butter) to lubricate and avoid injury. Talc covers his hands for the exact opposite reason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952952944-CREY2ERZOITTPU61U27I/Toy+Bird+Salesman.jpg Portraits - Toy Bird Salesman Cheap, small toys catch the eye of passersby at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar State. The crowds are huge here, particularly as the evening turns to night and the energy ramps up. We chose to use this time to head back to our tent accommodation as this can be a very unpredictable time for us and it seemed that the mood was not in our favour anymore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953016417-REJTR60DLAEAUI8L936B/Chetugree+Portrait.jpg Portraits - Chetugree Portrait Orchha based monk Chetugree poses for a sunset picture on the banks of the Betwa River overlooking the amazing Chattris along the Kamchatka Ghat. These 15 cenotaphs are memorials to various rulers of this ancient kingdom of Orchha, India. I met Chetugree on a very early morning walk as he drank his tea and applied his make-up. Around him was a friendly pack of young dogs and a group of decidedly unfriendly monkeys. I later found him in the heat of the day on a bridge over the river and asked him to meet me by the river later. I don’t usually take people from their location, but I found him and this location far too beautiful to not connect them. We walked back slowly in the darkness together with Chetugree smoking a cigarette and laughing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953129529-SI36KNX0MWLX8BRNE6H7/Kushti+Coach.jpg Portraits - Kushti Coach in the oldest city in the world, Varanasi, India, Kushti wrestling coach Doyan Siyaramji and his pupil take a rest from their heavy training. They are surrounded by very old equipment along with some “new school” weights. This is living history. In India, this is one of the oldest sports that still exists. You can see paintings of this sport on ancient temple walls. It was considered the sport of the kings. In the next week I will show more photos from this project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953863529-PXSOSTE9C8VU2E7G3PWR/Jagdish+Sadhu.jpg Portraits - Jagdish Sadhu A holy man Sadhu sets up his bedding under a huge stone elephant at the top of the stair at the magnificent Jagdish Temple on the hilltop of Udaipur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538955194615-A0SVD9HHPEH5H9RGZRJ9/IMG_6079.jpg Portraits - Priest Portrait, Vietnam Tam Coc, Vietnam is not only breathtakingly beautiful with its lush green and jagged karst topography and dragon-tail rivers, but it’s people are warm and inviting. We perched ourselves in the middle of the rowboat failing to protect ourselves from the driving wind and pebble hard rain behind a floppy umbrella. As the rain grew ever more torrential we decided to seek shelter in a temple where we found a priest with an old school “Fu Manchu” beard. He played some music for us on a strange instrument then he sat and watched the rain with us. I asked for some portrait shots with hand signals while trying to keep the tranquil feeling permeating the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538957191558-XVF7AA3FW2056PWQFU2M/IMG_1117.jpg Portraits - Cheroot Lady During a downpour while visiting the small villages on the outskirts of New Bagan we took shelter in a house with a group of older women drinking tea, making huge cheroot cigars and taking massive drags off of them over coconut shells. We hung out, tried smoking and drank pots of tea for an hour and a half trying to make conversation with the help of a young girl as translator and pop-up guide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539050465114-7UX7KTM9CRSVA237838G/IMG_5575.jpg Portraits - The Can Can Beauty The Flower Hmong ethnic group, one of the 54 ethnic groups found primarily in the mountainous Northern Vietnam can be found congregating at the Bac Ha market near Can Cao, Lao Cao Province. The Flower, Red, White, Black and Green Hmong groups are easily spotted whilst wearing those colours in very separate clothing styles and jewelry. Recently you see Western fashion buyers walking the markets of Northern Vietnam looking for the next, “undiscovered” fabric and fashion trends such as hand drawn batik patterns on indigo coloured hemp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1543555885862-NIUWKR03BISJTNTSZHVL/IMG_0060.jpg Portraits - Drive Thru Restaurant I loved the congruent nature of this shot of a restauranteur in Bangkok about to set up shop for a breakfast shift. Usually there is a grill and pots on one side with oil, condiments and mis en place on the other. He parks just outside of a brightly coloured Buddhist temple waiting for groups of people to come and go for morning prayers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539050424075-MQB0P0S9OJ766JRKFSMR/India+2009+173.jpg Portraits - Elephant Stable Lady An old woman sits amongst the ruins of an ancient elephant stable lost to shrub and trees. Below her goats wander looking for blades of green grass. The heat is oppressive and the shade seems meaningful and life affirming. The sun takes your energy and makes a single day feel like two of the same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539140373150-SR9X7TQWEFHQM3LYUQVG/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%281%29.jpg Portraits - A Warrior's Tale Iban Tribe Borneo - The older men of the long house relax during the day. They have done their hard-work and have made their lasting impact on the group of families that live in this communal space. Now they exude the wisdom and patience that comes with age and experience. Their tattoos show off their adventures and headhunting past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539140509864-JRRNU4YB0D9SXKXMA390/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%285%29.jpg Portraits - Have You Ever Seen An Airplane? Deep in the Borneo rainforest, well away from civilization, I spot a familiar object....an airplane. I ask the man who made this children's toy if he has ever seen such a vehicle before. He says no, but one time he did see it on a TV, so he made what it is in the image of his memory. He sold me this airplane to take home with me. I gave him money and traded with agreeing on a portrait with his creation. Culture in motion! Photography should be an exchange and a door that opens to another world....maybe someone else's? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539140548793-TLRXSDRDTHTXFYPTDTHN/Mr.+Sunshine+%281%29.jpg Portraits - Mr. Sunshine Three men sit atop a sand dune as they finish their 300km trek across the Thar Desert while watching their caravan of camels drink from a water source. We have come to see one of the largest animal fairs in Asia, the Pushkar Mela. Because of the heat of the desert the Vaishya caste wear their red turbans loosely to allow for the cooling wind. I have not been able to find in my research, the background of his facial tattoos. These are not the kind found in Arunchal Pradesh on India’s North Eastern flanks. He may have travelled from Pakistan as well? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539140589853-SBATLQBAMP9948WPWJRO/IMG_2154+-+Version+2.jpg Portraits - Ta Prohm Monks Young monks relax around their dwelling during the hot afternoons. This is the best time to meet them. They are educated so some have enough English to converse which makes seeking out a visit all that much more enjoyable. They are some of Cambodia’s most inquisitive people and they love to challenge their minds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539140645050-8X1L9FU6NXN6TS2P6S2H/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%282%29.jpg Portraits - Matriarch Lemanak River Iban tribal matriarch stops to meet before starting her day around the long house. The Iban were once a much feared warrior tribe. They now make up a large part of the Dayak people of Borneo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539463463903-111OORWVNXSYDK63JRX2/IMG_2342.jpg Portraits - Monastery Boy A boy watches as I adjust my lenses and tripod after an amazing photos shoot at the monastery he lives by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539917242657-3JQFAUWA2PR5BGHBC41H/A+Man+Called+Uncle.jpg Portraits - Blue Man Uncle 15-years of service at Penang, Malaysia’s Chong Fatt Tze, The Blue Mansion as it is known, made “Uncle” the go-to guy for information or fixing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569358979292-JSPTN0RLBV4X885A4RFB/IMG_8015.jpg Portraits - Pulling up a Saddle Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pulls up a chair to meet his public in Calgary, Alberta. One of a large series of photos I did as part of his official personal media on the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569362484829-3NFS2AJ1VQYKK999S9BE/Garth+Harper+-+President.jpg Portraits - Garth Harper, President Calgary Street Project I am working on. Meeting and talking with others sharing the street has been incredibly rewarding. This is Garth Harper - President. He took out a perfectly new business card for his cleaning business. I didn’t ask, but I suspect a massive stroke has him in this chair? We joked about some of the news of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569362917036-YSOQ58LWA7420N93EPCD/IMG_1247.jpg Portraits - Warriors Come Out To Play Brooks Kinsmen Rodeo July 07. Bull rider gets psyched up on a cold and windy day on the prairie of Alberta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031983051-1RVQM1BLESWCC2EDDFMX/529A5507.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031466589-MFCK4LG3VHNS3KF9K98M/529A5560.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031195343-M1ER0TPBVXY3EFRK67RC/529A5076.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1632623849541-HP53GULXNR5BQ7PMJ818/Colt%2Band%2BDale_2_230921.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576256036592-A29QFJX8ZD4KPRLKCQWL/Thailand+2019+Surin+Banquet-2.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569362917036-YSOQ58LWA7420N93EPCD/IMG_1247.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576256036592-A29QFJX8ZD4KPRLKCQWL/Thailand+2019+Surin+Banquet-2.jpg Portraits https://www.bradburylens.com/053204149098 daily 0.75 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949568198-AX70G2BTGWP269RMBNWV/Sleeping+Dogs+Lie.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Dog Dish, Udaipur That year in 2009 was dry, but Lake Pichola in Udaipur had water in it. This is a man-made lake built in 1362 and through the centuries, palaces of marble have been build on its banks, with others being build on islands constructed by later Maharajas. The lake, then and now, brings a cool breeze to combat the hot Rajasthani sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949568198-AX70G2BTGWP269RMBNWV/Sleeping+Dogs+Lie.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Dog Dish, Udaipur That year in 2009 was dry, but Lake Pichola in Udaipur had water in it. This is a man-made lake built in 1362 and through the centuries, palaces of marble have been build on its banks, with others being build on islands constructed by later Maharajas. The lake, then and now, brings a cool breeze to combat the hot Rajasthani sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538877974982-EQ92RV0FSD00CIUM5SO7/IMG_1764.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Mom And Kittens A mother cat and her kittens find a nice quiet place to rest at the entrance to a pagoda in a cupboard designed to house your shoes when at prayer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949490266-G5I2JAFS2N2A9B65CWKO/A+Gift+Camel+in+the+Mouth.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Film Noir Buying a camel is a lot more difficult than it might seems. Making an emergency stop for bread while sailing along the Nile River in Egypt one evening I am confronted by a boy who wishes to sell me a camel or two. The mouth is the most important place to start. He opens the ornery animal’s mouth to show me how it’s done. We agree he is a good beast, but also that he doesn’t list on the airlines companion animal allowance. Egyptian coffee in tiny glasses cures all language and distance barriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949683447-ZWYR412VO25L8U68C34G/Painted+Elephant+in+Udaipur.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Days of the Elephant, Lake Pichola, Udaipur You don’t see many elephants in Udaipur anymore. There are a lot more sensitivities these days. It could also be that car traffic in the old city is too much for the infrastructure of tight one-lane roads and alleys. An elephant would make for a pretty huge traffic jam. But back in 2009, tourists could hire a painted elephant to transport them through the tight streets and alley’s to sites such as the Gangour Ghat Gates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953596142-I4Z575NPMI6OXHC6UKZ1/Birdfest+at+Gangour.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Bird fest at Ganfour Each morning before the busy day arrives, pigeon devotees come to feed their birds. You see the same people every day and they really are serious about the birds in their care. After the pigeons eat they fly in kits across the calm waters of Lake Pichola. The kits of pigeons narrowly miss each other in their noiseless flight. The morning sun begins to frost the tops of the palace walls with an orange glow and at once, you feel whole and calm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953645406-2HY608XFU4LCTXTE7MM3/Mawari+Horses+of+India.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Mewari Horses of India The Mawari Horses of India are a rare breed of warrior horse and highly prized. They are distinctive in that they have a straight back and nose. The nose can sometimes be almost Roman. The ears are curved and touch slightly when pointed forward. White horses are very special and have very pink skin and bright eyes. A pinto like this one are the most popular. Sonepur is the place to purchase such a horse, where Indians come from all over to haggle over their intended purchases, usually reserved for personal riding or for ceremonial purposes. They are not allowed to be exported, but small numbers of them can attain a travel Visa for temporary travel. They are a protected animal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949649767-MD8DHNYK7HO8JAW9HE9A/Mickey+Mouse+Yelling.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Hey Mickey, You're So Fine, Egyptian desert Meet Mickey Mouse, the most ornery camel I have ever spent time with. Dude is always angry! He sports a recklessly abandoned dental plan, a lion-like yell and despite his ornamentation is not that pretty. He was also after my camera bag which I had placed on the saddle horn and he would have bit me if he had the chance. Still, he was a really fast runner and I was lucky to have a tongue left in my head after each sprint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1543556105923-YAHGADZ2N7PK3132J216/IMG_0491.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Mahout Sandwich, Thailand A short trip outside of Chiang Mai you find the zoo-like Elephant Nature Park started by Lek Chailert. Dozens of distressed elephants make their way to the park, along with hundreds of mistreated dogs, cats, water buffalo and other assorted animals. Here we stayed the night with the elephants and walked around with them during feeding times. To me however, it was the mahouts that looked after them that were most interesting. Each elephant has its own caretaker. Their hearts are married to that one person. It is a lifetime bond for an elephant that lives as long as a human. These two elephants are named Nong-Paeng and Dayam. No one could tell me the boy’s name. Like an inner-city dog park, everyone remembers the dog’s name, but almost never the owner. Here too seemingly? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539058393650-20DH7585KCMHK0PM56XU/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%284%29.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - That's Loud!, Lemanak River, Malaysian Borneo Border A young male tattooed with the beginnings of a Dayak design on his shoulder takes me outside of the longhouse after our morning coffee. He gets me to meet his fighting cock who enjoys being groomed and held, but his calls were incredibly piercing. He looked excited to show off his skills in the ring. The Iban tribe exist on Borneo’s Rivers in communal longhouses where they now dry farm rice and pepper instead of their traditional headhunting ways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539142720534-MXKTSDNHPKIWAJ2LI088/IMG_5807.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - End Of Season Burn, Sapa, Northern Vietnam Sapa, in the highlands north of Hanoi continue to bring hearty tourists to trek its steep rice terraces and meet the Black, Red, Flower and White Hmong people of the area. The fields are routinely burnt after harvest to clear and add nutrients. Water buffalo are still used by the Hmong for all manner of farm work and are considered a valuable asset to a family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539055969824-MOKRRDIMD6W9PX9GOCK6/Desert+Camels+for+riding.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - The Morning Stretch, Rajasthan Desert We are just waking up from an open night on a mattress on the top of a dune. Eggs and tea are being made on an open fire. The camels have hobbled off in the middle of the night to find greenery to eat and are found on the horizon and brought back. The first two big ones are for us, the small one carries the two men accompanying us. I’m glad they walked off. They regurgitate food all night and they generally aren’t that easy to be around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539455663923-MKZJ8UKQO2FCNDXAISO8/IMG_2311+-+Version+2+-+Version+2.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Golden Eye Cambodian Croc Farm. Crocs sun themselves before taking a dip in their pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539455817017-JUCEWQ9M0NMBJ3QH6ELF/IMG_2371+-+Version+2.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Fresh Frog, Battambang, Cambodia Frogs are consumed all around the world and in Asia, you usually find them alive and with legs and arms tied snugged up to the body. I had not seen them sold this way before: head removed and skinned to show their meat. The market that morning had suffered a deluge of rain and the brown water rose to my knees which brought with it cool air and an almost fresh smell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539461255840-GBKMT00MFQWHV1242XXU/India+2009+454+-+Version+2.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539461311989-A3RTRU1O9SPNBCW23ZB3/Jack+Fish+School.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Jack Fish Dive located off the heavily Pirated side of Malaysian Borneo sits one of the most treasured dive sites in the world - the 600 foot vertical wall of tiny Sipidan Island. Through a series of dives we encountered hundreds of Sharks, massive Sea Turtles everywhere, man-sized Bump-head Parrot Fish and spinning vertical tubes constructed of thousands of Barracudas. Other dives were “muck dives” spent hovering a foot off the sandy bottom looking for micro-life that is so incredibly rare. The whole time watched over on the surface by a boat of armed soldiers dressed in SWAT gear along with 40 more on the Island with heavy anti-aircraft guns. Kidnapping is not looked at well by the Malay government, hence the addition of the 150 man Destroyer parked off-shore. Safe to say us four strangers from Canada, France and Japan felt entirely safe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539461370424-8UCFMBO9I58Y3DKUIME2/A+figure+and+hounds.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539461457869-2H2Y7IWQ1PXA0ARHWP42/India+2009+248+-+Version+2.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539461515761-CDBJTVK77XOKEY1N8Y8U/IMG_0127.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539461705728-RH3VW7L9OLL3AS93FXDL/Short+List+1+-+Version+2.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - The Drunk And The Curious A Russian soldier from a visiting navy ship, clobbered by heat and feeling the effects of the night before sleeps hard on the steps on the way to the Dambulla Caves, Sri Lanka. The monkey checked out the hair on his legs and tried to make him wake up. Eventually his friends showed up and poured a bottle of water on him and he came to life. Lots of tension. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539462019712-LT0QL6DKDL3D0EOX7C3N/The+Bull+Fighter.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539463382956-J6MPRATLYZNUNAN9DLQ1/IMG_2316.jpg Feathers, Fur and Fins - Monastery Boy And Cat Breathtaking light enters the East side of the monastery and if it wasn't already incredibly warm, a cat finds a ray and plops down to rest. A boy who followed us in to the monastery makes sure he is comfortable. https://www.bradburylens.com/936691967557 daily 0.75 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1544828812788-HYT3BD1SLD6HDWOLAFGA/A+Painter%27s+Passion.jpg Disappearing Arts - A Painter's Passion Down a steep hill heading towards a small Ghat, or entry to the waters of Udaipur's Lake Pichola, a man paints the exterior of a home in a more modern motif. Usually, you see paintings of old, such as elephants with decorated howdahs (saddles) or Mewar horses with colourful moustachioed riders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1544828812788-HYT3BD1SLD6HDWOLAFGA/A+Painter%27s+Passion.jpg Disappearing Arts - A Painter's Passion Down a steep hill heading towards a small Ghat, or entry to the waters of Udaipur's Lake Pichola, a man paints the exterior of a home in a more modern motif. Usually, you see paintings of old, such as elephants with decorated howdahs (saddles) or Mewar horses with colourful moustachioed riders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030690518-3GZ88RAU78Q7K87U4M3S/IMG_2189.jpg Disappearing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538878105789-OQZATFD7BB0CXEJWV8NV/IMG_0324.jpg Disappearing Arts - Heads Will Roll - Myanmar Meeting puppetry expert Khin Maung Htwe was something I had planned for years. Finding him at Htwe Oo Myanmar, a small theatre based out of a first-floor apartment in Yangon’s Ahlone township, we talked about the past and future of puppetry in today’s world. We planned to travel together the next day to see his puppet maker. I watched as he carved a small puppet head from a block of wood. I promised him I would come back in one month and purchase a puppet if he began production right away? He agreed and true to his word, I picked up a full sized Garuda character and Mr. Htwe also added a white horse that he had been using in his productions! I was thrilled to meet, and spend time with these masters of an art that is incredibly difficult to maintain in today’s computerized world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952036288-MVT7XTGL3VCJFLHQQ7BE/IMG_2737.jpg Disappearing Arts - Beauty Walking through a small weaving factory making exclusive materials of silk, cotton and lotus stem I meet a women that strikes me as beautiful, so I ask and then take her picture in the soft light of a rainy day. In Burmese, she tells someone something as I depart. It is translated for me roughly as "I am not the beauty I once was". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952074736-3EFG99GIS17ETEDXQZH6/IMG_3325.jpg Disappearing Arts - Sham Wow This style of basket lacquerware is exceedingly rare to find, especially when the artist has only one leg and a foot to use. His focus was entirely on the object while he continued with perfect red banding on shiny black natural lacquer. Like many citizens of Myanmar he sports the red flag of Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD Party. I pick up a piece to bring home with me so with one swift motion he drops his brush and opens up a plastic bag using only a toe. Using that same toe he grabs the object and places it in a bag and hands the bag to me by its handles. He then gets back to work. I remember trying hard to use all my sense to add this moment to my memory so that I can recall this today as if i was just there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953939541-P2QS48FMCIDLVTCP84DL/Attention+Span.jpg Disappearing Arts - Attention Span You can actually feel the concentration being put into the hand embroidery that is going into this wedding jacket. Muslim men, in particular, are the keepers of this incredible skillset. They sit on the floor and work long hours through tired eyes to complete these works of art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538954046867-FTD8MSDEAWG41NC4L0DA/Metal+Man.jpg Disappearing Arts - Metal Man A small backstreet of Udaipur fills with smoke from the coal fires of the local blacksmith. He works in a crouched position keeping the coals hot. Water and tongs are at the ready. Stray cloth and a radio are piled in a decrepit box. His hands and toes burnt and charred from the hot metal he shapes. I am really not sure why, but this man looks like the CEO of a powerful multi-national somehow and it is only circumstance that finds him here in front of me in this beautiful place - Udaipur https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539023480684-F90LXTX0KBN84IBHG461/Weaver+by+Night.jpg Disappearing Arts - Weaver By Night Weavers everywhere are picky about their lighting and their temperature they like to work in. Here in Varanasi where the famous Benares silk is made, Weavers work massive looms through intricate patterns. This is a skill that is dying off gradually with machines now taking the place of man. It is important to capture and collect this skill before it disappears like sea coral, never to be seen again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030842964-VOFGMSEXRYHYNU6SN3O5/IMG_2257.jpg Disappearing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539136611800-YX8INYUMT59IY8D77GSM/Jaipur+Carpet+Maker.jpg Disappearing Arts - Carpets Many of the carpets made in Jodhpur, India are produced on vertical weaving mechanisms. A fan pushes around hot air as the craftsman’s hands make fast motions to complete another row. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539464896398-2WUDZUGHRXUG4M8JM3LV/Songket+to+touch.jpg Disappearing Arts - Songket to Touch A small group of young mostly Muslim girls are being asked to help resurrect the old art of songket. This is a difficult to find art where gold or silver is threaded between threads of silk or sometimes cotton. The effect is immense detail and intricate designs that are used mostly for momentous occasions such as weddings. The cloth is extremely expensive. The piece of cloth this girl is inspecting and perfecting with a needle might be worth as much as $12,000 USD right from this location, not to mention if it were to be found in the market itself. The girls here are young and diligent in their learning of this fine art form found in Indonesia, Brunei and here in Borneo, Malaysia just outside of Kuching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539465001112-OSYB6QWB3YV1UHB9YYJF/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width.jpg Disappearing Arts - Dayak Tribal Crafts Women of the Iban people on Borneo maintain the communal longhouse where dozens of families live. When there is not cooking to do, they sit on the floor in the cool of the morning and weave thin strips of bamboo into mats and other materials that they can either use or they can sell to the occasional visitor such as us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031381623-VRKT2QTPURTZDGW3LLWP/529A5218.jpg Disappearing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031689898-FC2CXN3PRCSRDPHTX4PL/529A5194.jpg Disappearing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861082719-YX2FTQL91Q3MNL7X043S/Thailand+2019+Surin+Banquet-8.jpg Disappearing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030690518-3GZ88RAU78Q7K87U4M3S/IMG_2189.jpg Disappearing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030842964-VOFGMSEXRYHYNU6SN3O5/IMG_2257.jpg Disappearing Arts https://www.bradburylens.com/353628916383 daily 0.75 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539055633152-QWHJFLG7O0AWX867I2Y5/India+2009+159+-+Version+2.jpg Religion - Prayers to Bahubali Worshippers bundle at the feet of the 57 foot tall monolithic statue of the founder of Jainism. This amazing structure is located in Karnataka State in India. The Jains are the most peaceful of religions always looking for perfection out of successive lives and to achieve liberation of the soul. They profess no injury to any living creature so they are careful where they walk and some are seen wearing masks so to avoid ingesting a living thing by accident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539055633152-QWHJFLG7O0AWX867I2Y5/India+2009+159+-+Version+2.jpg Religion - Prayers to Bahubali Worshippers bundle at the feet of the 57 foot tall monolithic statue of the founder of Jainism. This amazing structure is located in Karnataka State in India. The Jains are the most peaceful of religions always looking for perfection out of successive lives and to achieve liberation of the soul. They profess no injury to any living creature so they are careful where they walk and some are seen wearing masks so to avoid ingesting a living thing by accident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1740251747145-KMGRCA19XPAJBJ587QYK/India%2B2009%2B158%2B-%2BVersion%2B2.jpg Religion - Cave Man, Hampi Area, India A day so hot that the sun felt as if it were a buzzard picking at your flesh. Thanks to a small boy interested in practicing some English we soon found ourselves climbing down between house-sized, egg-shaped boulders that were cool to the touch. After a while of jumping from stone to stone into the darkness, we finally came across a shaft of light where I took this picture of a Sadhu that had lived in a space only big enough to crawl into for sleep. He had been there for 3 years meditating! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538878249514-VY973PEHMCF5II9M8SMS/IMG_2026.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951598605-MUF5JFVSJGOKVCFF8JNW/IMG_1737.jpg Religion - The Nuns Of The Chinese Temple this is within an elaborately decorated Chinese style monastery outside of Mandalay, Myanmar. This monastery housed only 3 nuns, all of which had lived in this building together since they were 11. The two in the portrait are 74 and 78. The older Sister felt it too much to join as the 102 year old lay in the shade in a sun-chair. The vibe was incredibly relaxed and remaIns a favourite feeling of mine in that fine country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949814863-R0NK3ZHICZXRF04CIY2J/Umbrella+Boy.jpg Religion - Umbrella Boy First ever travel photo with my new 1998 Elan 7 camera with 200iso film. It was the day the whole thing started! Bali, Indonesia, 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952220202-KX86OHBBEVLQSPIH5PJ4/DSC00129.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538878721450-XKFH1AN3CBEV68UDUCMJ/IMG_1906+-+Version+2.jpg Religion - Van Thom Portrait Clamouring around Angkor with a monk always gets you into some unexpected places. He kept in touch for a year and then we drifted apart. Tree roots strangle an 1100 year old temple here. Cambodia 2012. Ta Prohm Temple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538878747144-TT8XANPHELSQFBH1NV3X/IMG_2278.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538957101838-KTD4TQ4I7YTFDPFRH3UJ/IMG_1447.jpg Religion - Monastic Teaching Lay monks take their learning seriously. These novice monks quietly listen to their teacher, while others shout their mantras at the top of their lungs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951565344-LGXK222IXMLH6ROEB9LI/IMG_0779.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952175043-KAHUQ2VCM5AG9BF03VP6/IMG_0108.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539055732076-EYH5EA5XBH9L8QPH6MSI/India+2009+450+-+Version+2.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538957365036-AAA14CJHU483KJ08JQTA/IMG_0934.jpg Religion - Worship A man performs his rituals at a gold covered Buddha deep in one of the thousands of pagodas near Old Bagan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952244151-ITYZKA3UPEFQFKTU8SAV/IMG_1365.jpg Religion - Buddha Line Sitting Buddhas of Umin Thounzeh, Sagaing. A man tends the temple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953250027-XZ9DAR1ZZNWTD46GDWG1/The+Celebration+of+Tulsi+Vivah.jpg Religion - The Celebration Of Tulsi Vivah OK...this can be complicated. This is effectively the marriage of the plant basil or Tulsi or Vrinda when she was in woman form and Vishnu/Krishna. Women in particular form small groups of friends on the Assi and Tulsi Ghats in Varanasi and celebrate with paints, flower petals, cloth and other things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538952307563-7JLSCZXR83N23JQNRUA7/IMG_0509.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539472026801-9NLNC5YCTTSOTEDTBV45/India+2009+72+-+Version+2.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1543556375623-9XN1AMRY6HQKMPQWD3YC/IMG_0183.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1543556478604-P7BZTMGYJ398ENZ866PP/IMG_0783.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1543556640019-VCKVSDW0U0CZQMVOXK93/IMG_0705+%281%29.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1543556678354-MSCQPH6LZWYLEKWTJ33A/IMG_0907.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255987170-IQGWIDCTD7G2UBPYRKSI/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-57.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255685560-8SIX4042EZAR4RL04EUA/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-55.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255532693-QD64MX6NU4V1RI7V1SXA/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-51.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255685560-8SIX4042EZAR4RL04EUA/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-55.jpg Religion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576255987170-IQGWIDCTD7G2UBPYRKSI/Thailand+2019+Sukhotai-57.jpg Religion https://www.bradburylens.com/vii daily 0.75 2020-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539463685777-RWZPBTRR0SY01D86URX9/India+2009+425+-+Version+2.jpg Music Makers - Flute Seller, Varanasi, India Early mornings on the Varanasi Ghats on the Ganges riverside are usually quiet. Men are sitting on cement stairs taking in the sunrise over the water, others being shaved, yet others preparing to wash their teeth in the brown/black water. Sounds of shuffling feet mix with laundry being smashed against stones to release the dirt. A musician selling his flutes walks by. On a spike are myriad of instruments of varying tones. He plays a morning influenced tune that soothes and wakes all around him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539463685777-RWZPBTRR0SY01D86URX9/India+2009+425+-+Version+2.jpg Music Makers - Flute Seller, Varanasi, India Early mornings on the Varanasi Ghats on the Ganges riverside are usually quiet. Men are sitting on cement stairs taking in the sunrise over the water, others being shaved, yet others preparing to wash their teeth in the brown/black water. Sounds of shuffling feet mix with laundry being smashed against stones to release the dirt. A musician selling his flutes walks by. On a spike are myriad of instruments of varying tones. He plays a morning influenced tune that soothes and wakes all around him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538954135818-1VP1NWR9MOLWEJYXUM49/Kuzhal+Pattu+Player.jpg Music Makers - Kuzhal Pattu Player Kuzhal Pattu is one of hundreds of Indian musical instruments. It is usually heard in Hindu temples or ceremonies. In this case, he accompanies a group of women who celebrate the marriage of holy Basil the plant (Tulsi) and the god Vishnu. The women dance, sing and make offerings on the day of Tulsi Vivah. Tulsi Ghat in Varanasi is a great place for a ceremony devoted to Tulsi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539057851003-RL8VCIKLP1ZWWKFC1CSQ/Snake+Charmer.jpg Music Makers - Snake Charmer A street performer at Assi Ghat in Varanasi gets his cobras to perform while he brings in a crowd in the hopes of making some money. Best give these babies a wide birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539132598362-INW9KA7ZBD8ZHM95TOSK/The+Singing+Gondallier.jpg Music Makers - The Singing Gondalier Chinese business men take some time away by floating down a river in Guilin, China. The Gondolier sings a song to keep them relaxed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569363307455-F1CF9FYWM14ZF9MAI0H9/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%2814%29.jpg Music Makers - Hand Drummed Power A small hand drum group sings their way into a lead during competition at the Tsuut’ina Pow Wow in Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. The sound is like a battle cry of a soldier mixed with that of a wolf pack leader ushering in the night. It brings with it a surge of adrenaline that gives you the courage for anything! https://www.bradburylens.com/799904201174 daily 0.75 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030553496-E7EDLN5T7TQJAVYH7T13/529A5361-2.jpg Dance Trance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538955325541-QYK8AN3ILZRT8G889G43/Sunalta+Stampede+Breakfast+56.jpg Dance Trance - Sunalta Dancing Girls from the local Oromo community join their wider community of Sunalta in the downtown neighbourhood inside the City of Calgary to celebrate the annual tradition of the Calgary Stampede. Over loudspeakers comes the unfamiliar rhythms of their own traditional music momentarily supplanting the Country and Western music of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030553496-E7EDLN5T7TQJAVYH7T13/529A5361-2.jpg Dance Trance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953393333-BR67MHP1UW5R31GIFPYO/Let%27s+Get+This+Party+Started%21.jpg Dance Trance - Let's Get This Party Started! Dev Diwali, or Kartik Purnima, is one of the most important days in the Hindu calendar and a time for immense celebrations. The day gets going with an energy that begins to ramp up as night approaches. Here people from neighbouring Rajasthan crank up the party atmosphere with drumming and young men showing off their moves, pretty much perfecting “the grind”. Smoke from the cremation fires encircles the group with acrid, lung-burning fumes. Varanasi, India is the oldest city in the world and is an amazing place to see this great event as it continues through the night and into the next day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538953493915-WEI0G7OA9FAIHE8ODKZW/She%27s+a+Beauty.jpg Dance Trance - She's A Beauty Pretty much the best thing that could happen to a photographer of any stature is when you realize that the camera actually helps you make a connection you would not have otherwise. Women at Tulsi and Assi Ghats in Varanasi are so overjoyed by the marriage ceremony of Tulsi Vivah, that they begin to dance with the camera. This is where taking photos makes a whole trip so worthwhile! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539139819343-582B99F0CTVY2WHZGPX7/The+Warrior.jpg Dance Trance - Headhunter In true Iban tribal tradition, when a warrior arrives back from a successful battle or distant travels through the jungles in Borneo, at one time carrying the heads of his enemies he had collected along the way, he would present a dance to show his fierceness. This rare opportunity to see and hear this dance to drums and gongs on this hot, black night at the communal longhouse was very special. The kids share crayons and colouring books that I purchased in Kota Kinabalu and the Chief and I consume huge amounts of his home-made whiskey and cheer and dance along. The young warrior moves slowly with grace surprising now and then with a bark-like scream that made us all feel the fever of battle. For every shot of the whiskey the Chief commands the families to repeat a toast of “oooooo-HHAAA!” as loud as we can as is the ancient tradition. Eventually a breeze off of the jungle river calls for bedtime and mats and mosquito nets are hung in the open space and at once it is only the bugs and critters that are awake. I lay on the floor thinking about where each of our paths are intertwined yet worlds away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539556848106-QXZ4T7MHGKKEIS2RYT1F/Courage+Against+the+Wind.jpg Dance Trance - Courage Against The Wind Young women compete in Fancy Shawl dancing at the National Indigenous Cultural Expo 2018 in Edmonton, Alberta where hundreds come to challenge for money and honours. It is difficult to document the motions and emotions watching this dance. The drum beats loud and the men wail to its rhythm. There is so much intensity packaged in these girls. This means everything to them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569361524318-CUIJZLU54X0RLBQZ7SAO/Street+Name+-+Goodness+%233.jpg Dance Trance - My Goodness Calgary Street Project - Street name “Goodness” is my muse. I stay close while he dances to a tiny and beaten laptop. He is blind to the judgement others unleash on him. His energy eclipses all of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569362234851-DE4LS5HG8C1I20T4Z3EJ/Street+Name+-+Goodness.jpg Dance Trance - More of my Goodness Calgary Street Project - street name Goodness floated above cement the entire 10 minutes I was shooting him. He is an angel I believe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031381623-VRKT2QTPURTZDGW3LLWP/529A5218.jpg Dance Trance - Young Blood Young 5 year old dancers apply their makeup by cell phone before the long process of adding a head dress and other details. The makeup gives them another-worldly appearance that is at once beautiful and terrifying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675037213180-U6RIWO78BP6ZXZPMMLCG/529A5359.jpg Dance Trance - Muse Ubud’s largest temple holds a quarterly celebration, as all temples in Bali must. It ends up being a variety show with a lot of religious oversight. The highlight was this very young dancer whom somehow defied an age with piercing eyes that dart from side to side as if electrified. Her trained fingers and toes create the mood while the gong music haunts the crowd and fools them into feelings of soft joy and attacking terror. We are looking at a star entertainer in the making. She leapt through the lens and somehow forced me to take dozens of pictures! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675031689898-FC2CXN3PRCSRDPHTX4PL/529A5194.jpg Dance Trance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1675030553496-E7EDLN5T7TQJAVYH7T13/529A5361-2.jpg Dance Trance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576861082719-YX2FTQL91Q3MNL7X043S/Thailand+2019+Surin+Banquet-8.jpg Dance Trance https://www.bradburylens.com/944612688034 daily 0.75 2019-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951819768-ZVMUPAFWX88DWTGDQEAS/IMG_2123.jpg Factory Worker Series - Granite Carvers Just outside of Mandalay there is a place devoted to stone carvers and their craft. Here, the workers take a much needed break from the powdered stone filled air. They exude a characteristic stoicism and inner strength that is compelling yet slightly uncomfortable in a way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951819768-ZVMUPAFWX88DWTGDQEAS/IMG_2123.jpg Factory Worker Series - Granite Carvers Just outside of Mandalay there is a place devoted to stone carvers and their craft. Here, the workers take a much needed break from the powdered stone filled air. They exude a characteristic stoicism and inner strength that is compelling yet slightly uncomfortable in a way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951753819-JD0DF1H8SMB0TUO4ITXX/IMG_2116.jpg Factory Worker Series - Brace Yourselves A stone worker uses the now traditional electric tool to carve yet another granite version of the Buddha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951791204-MYIUKXQ1WQNYGYU6MK5K/IMG_1627.jpg Factory Worker Series - Painting On Cloth In a small home within a weaving village we find young girls with glue, sparkling sequins and medal and cloth appliqués. They are producing wedding dresses for the less affluent. The garments are entirely beautiful and the children's pride in showing them off and displaying their impressive skills was heart warming. Children working at a very young age is ubiquitous throughout Myanmar and not considered as anything more than necessary for survival of the family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951842975-93WX7UI8AAE60PBA4YCP/IMG_1564.jpg Factory Worker Series - The Stare-down Workers pull reams of cotton string from boiling vats filled with coloured dies. The heat and humidity make you feel like you have to swim through the air, not walk the ground. As always, there is a bold confidence with young men with difficult jobs. They chew huge wads of betel nut that turn their lips to crimson and their teeth to fence posts of black beans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951865306-7WJDP2B70QJOPIH59KZF/IMG_1603.jpg Factory Worker Series - String Man A man tends to the spooling of string used for cotton shirts and Longyis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951880741-5467JL8J1M9JA1G66MLG/IMG_1595.jpg Factory Worker Series - Amongst The Machines Work in the factories around Mandalay, Myanmar comes with a 24/7 commitment. All along the walls are changes of clothing, laundry, dirty dishes from lunch on the run while children wander through the fast and noisy machinery. Old equipment covered in dust and cobwebs often means continuous maintenance as the machines are still in full operation. This picture is a part of a Factory Workers series I have been working on for the last 4 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951922400-E6KP6S517U5MHV4MT8T3/IMG_1608.jpg Factory Worker Series - Boiled String Two workers build fires for boiling and dying the cotton string used in the mechanized looms to build cheap longyis, which both men are wearing here. As you can tell, even in the early morning cool, the heat of the fires is repressive and the men lean back from its sudden bite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538954568745-J5EN8TNC1RX2HASEF9O1/Silks+of+Varanasi.jpg Factory Worker Series - Silks Of Varanasi The silks of Varanasi India are famous. Workshops such as this one are dedicated to adding starch and a stiffness to the fabric through a drying process in a kiln. First it needs to be threaded through these metal rods so it can be pulled tight, then rolled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1556402341689-M9HJPYV67FF2TCIFKDXJ/Varanasi%2BSilk.jpg Factory Worker Series - Varanasi's Disappearing Arts Varanasi, India is said to be the oldest city in the world. It’s labyrinthine streets present themselves to a traveller as a spider web of decrepit doors, cobble stones, arms-width alleys of mystery and a full sensory overload. Hidden behind these walls is the ancient silk trade, still finding usefulness in an age of machines and technology. Silk hangs on ancient looms piloted by life-long weevers. The furious pace of hands and feet mix with the care and attention to detail to bring to the rest of us the occasional work of art, but also the ordinary and utilitarian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538955812350-4DW59XQD2WIQNCI73JYW/IMG_5182.jpg Factory Worker Series - A Stuffed Hanoi The old town of Hanoi punctuates the greater, and more hectic major city of Hanoi. These streets are more interesting. They often make little sense in their intersections and street directions. Tiny plastic, child-sized tables and chairs welcome the limber and flexible to relax with a handmade beer, a basket of deep-fried crickets and other miraculous treats. Shops open to the street front showcasing all manner of plastic utilities and colourful trinkets and toys to delight children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539920663061-3WSCK2GKDRH15RLCKEN4/Metal+Shop+India.jpg Factory Worker Series - A Life Long Career In the old markets of Bangalore, India you find the young and old working side-by-side in trades meant to curve a disposable society. Old items become useful again and again. The damaged are fixed for a fraction of the cost of fresh and new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539920733900-GHZLXLRSFA287VPSM0EB/The+Wood+Carver.jpg Factory Worker Series - Mandalay Carvers More and more tourists are headed to the recently and increasingly more open Myanmar. The old skills and arts still remain here seemingly untouched with the exception of the colourful and well preened visitors eager to disembark enormous and stinking buses to grab up the soon to be disappeared crafts and skills of a generation delayed. Progress of time and communication means that these arts will not last forever with interest waning and succession of the generation before becoming a worry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539920797569-GDRYM5QNTTP1ABQPSEB7/Fabric+Worker.jpg Factory Worker Series - Longyi Creation The ubiquitous piece of clothing in Myanmar is the Longyi, a kind fo skirt worn by men mostly. It is often made for cotton in a tight plaid pattern. It is like a sheet before it is wrapped around the waste and tucked at the front for a quick and relaxed fit. A factory outside of Mandalay first makes the thread, then uses clunking and oily machines to do the work which was once done by hand weavers. The factory is both work and home for many with laundry hanging and used dishes strewn about the place. Women and men eat bowls of rice in between repeated ongoing maintenance of the overworked equipment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539920860686-0HEE7P10M5K5MJS12FL8/Weaver%2C+Mandalay+Area.jpg Factory Worker Series - Attention to Details A hand weaver uses older wooden looms to provide the authentic experience of hand-made cloth. The factory is fronted by a beautifully appointed and air conditioned shop. Expensive silk cloth with intricate designs is made even more special through expert merchandising with a Western flair. Meanwhile older workers with leftover skills tend to production in a sweltering, but surprisingly relaxed workshop behind the scenes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539920970127-R073ZOON5TEFI2VV0UUW/String+Man+Strong.jpg Factory Worker Series - String Man Strong. Mandalay Thread used to manufacture Longyi cloth is boiled with colours in a huge wok over an open fire. Shirtless boys with wooden sticks churn the contents. Others take the now cooled string and arrange it for further processing on machined looms. The young boys are thrilled to show us around unconcerned for safety or judgement. I am dragged into spectacularly dark and progressively eerily cramped and stiflingly hot rooms to meet overjoyed workers anxious to show off their existence to a camera. Momentarily they feel the pride of celebrity and the need to be documented. https://www.bradburylens.com/884688365675 daily 0.75 2025-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539139725281-PD0JPIK6NHXRAHO0KVR0/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%2810%29.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539139725281-PD0JPIK6NHXRAHO0KVR0/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%2810%29.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538948677556-P586DC0RHQMJFREYY5KZ/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%2813%29.jpg Pow Wow Project - Tommy Takes Flight Tommy hails from the Navajo (Dineh) from New Mexico. Now retired, he dances and competes for money to run his RV from competition to competition. His belief is that the youth are not following the traditional ways and that even his own children have gone to make money next to the “white man”. His pride in what he does is immediately felt, but so is his disappointment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538948785726-055NCS6I924FYEI3UREU/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width.jpg Pow Wow Project - Warrior A warrior clenches his jaw and visualizes the dance competition he faces. This is where pride is on the line and experience tells him that there are others who he must understand their tactic. Moments before a dance competition can feel energized as if a battle of the mind overcomes those of the past and future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538880190992-SXUV2TZ75PSQUOOWSRTQ/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%2816%29.jpg Pow Wow Project - Winter's Edge, Edmonton, Alberta A cold day at the 2018 National Indigenous Pow Wow in Edmonton brings together aboriginal cultures from all over North America and is one of the biggest in the World. It just never gets old! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538879880573-JE0D0P32R9SM15MRL5H2/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%281%29.jpg Pow Wow Project - Inside The Eagle Of Marlin Marlin finishes his grand entrance dance before preparing for his solo dance performance. In his words, he is flying! “All of these feathers are lifting me above the ground and I feel like I am an eagle soaring.” His hand is grabbing my arm and he is pulling me closer as if to steady himself. His wife Velma is behind us laughing. She has seen this excitement before. He whispers about his emotions of quitting alcohol and how being drug free has made him feel like a child again. He speaks of how he “wrestled demons” as a boy and that his path is clear now that he understands the creator’s purpose for him. He is a proud Blackfoot man from south of Fort MacLeod in Alberta and he quickly makes that clear when you first meet him and shows you his buffalo tattoo on his arm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538974449941-G8M0MTQTY31KWKZR93W6/Full+Speed+Ahead+-+Version+3.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538973037443-1KT5YOCH5UY3E2BYD6FQ/IMG_9440+-+Version+2.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569358355652-GX8DURFF26ZUJKRXD1UB/Canola+redo+1.jpg Pow Wow Project - Remembering Thinking about his ancestors, a visitor of the Tsuut’ina Pow Wow shows a faded picture of a Grandfather in black and white. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538949158852-TL9SQFTQBPXRYL76T1CO/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%2814%29.jpg Pow Wow Project - Hand Drum Power A small hand drum group sings their way into a lead during competition at the Tsuut’ina Pow Wow in Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. The sound is like a battle cry of a soldier mixed with that of a wolf pack leader ushering in the night. It brings with it a surge of adrenaline that gives you the courage for anything! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538973286118-WYXB9O5XYFIGEU1523IS/IMG_9440.jpg Pow Wow Project - Dance Me Outside At a Pow Wow in Edmonton a young girl flitters around the edges of a mass of hundreds of dancers. 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There are also drumming and singing competitions that bring in participants from all across North America to the tiny town of Bragg Creek, Alberta in Canada’s prairies. Each costume is carefully crafted by the families to show off that person’s personality. This is were the First Nations people get to show their true pride and love for who they are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539552481750-TYXWTS79D7J5FHCTCBAF/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%282%29.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539552584759-OSV23B8MX5RMWG6OG8IN/IMG_8990.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539552716060-IV7VXA26GY8HGQTLGBUK/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%2819%29.jpg Pow Wow Project - Rodney I met Rodney that morning as we both sipped a Tim Horton’s Coffee while surveying the arena battleground. We talked about his life in Saskatchewan and our lives were similar, then he got down to his hours of preparation. He forbid my pictures until he was ready. First applying paints then regalia and making final adjustments to hundreds of feathers. Each time another piece of regalia was added, the more confidence and power would emanate from him. You could feel this by standing next to him as his voice grew in volume, back straightened and arms opened wide when he spoke. For myself, this was a moment of power transfer I will not soon forget. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539553503014-UY9UNXVQGMTM87CJWR1R/Warrior+at+Rest.jpg Pow Wow Project - Power Warrior The warrior stands above the rest. His height and movie star looks are elevated above a thousand others. He keeps appearing to me at Pow Wows so he must love to be at these events. His face is always painted with large blocks of black, white and red in various patterns. He does smile, but it is a slow one, backed by thought and intelligence, cunning and deliberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538948947814-9Y8VYMWIGU32WG9A33UD/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%288%29.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539553617840-V73VNB43570RZHMLTZVU/IMG_9336+%281%29.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539553982541-0PX1KLYZF3WQ7ZTCBSF7/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%289%29.jpg Pow Wow Project - Go Lakers! A proud Father let’s his daughter absentmindedly braid his tassels while both of them await the grand entry moment. His regalia is purposefully done in LA Lakers team colours. He watches their basketball games and is a big fan. Nations from all around North America find their way to the Tsuut’ina Pow Wow to compete in dancing, singing and drumming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539554175767-FFXEW0DUSWUMMA50OG0Y/IMG_9343.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539554458889-HEHXTXRQDTFATXD7IHQQ/IMG_9354.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539554764138-58P7URO4RBDLP1J06Q1R/Eric%27s+Point.jpg Pow Wow Project - Eric's Point if Eric is making a point at the Grand Entrance of the National Indigenous 2018 Pow Wow in Edmonton it’s that he is bigger than all of us! The smallest man in stature by half a metre, he remains the King and the best example of his culture and a credit to people in general. Loved being there to take this picture! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539561311693-UKI1P5QLHOCQUR7Q286P/Tribal+Youth++-1500+Width+%2823%29.jpg Pow Wow Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569358052893-33J385QMDU1XFD5TEC3Y/Canola+redo+13.jpg Pow Wow Project - Battle Ready A young dancer shows a fierce temperament as he primes himself for the battle of the year at the 2019 Tsuut’ ina Pow Wow in Bragg Creek, Alberta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1569358736598-W66R4M9PYMX4F8C2L1WQ/Canola+redo+17.jpg Pow Wow Project - The Winds of Change A junior fancy shawl competitor at The Tsuut ‘ina Pow Wow in Bragg Creek Alberta catches the judges eyes with explosive move during the Grand Entry. https://www.bradburylens.com/xii daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1578875382960-36715HT7GJT4WMBISW5H/IMG_2886.jpg Black and White - Intha Fisherman, Inle Lake, Myanmar Intha Fishermen use old style basket nets to catch fish in shallow Inle Lake in North Myanmar. They also still use their unique form of rowing called leg rowing so they can see into the water while propelling the boat. This is the only place this style of rowing can be found in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1578875382960-36715HT7GJT4WMBISW5H/IMG_2886.jpg Black and White - Intha Fisherman, Inle Lake, Myanmar Intha Fishermen use old style basket nets to catch fish in shallow Inle Lake in North Myanmar. They also still use their unique form of rowing called leg rowing so they can see into the water while propelling the boat. This is the only place this style of rowing can be found in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538880688576-0GKJVD841S9SKCAYW1NW/The+Rival.jpg Black and White - The Rival The final days of India’s Sonepur Mela just after Kartik Purnima where Asia’s largest animal fair is located and has been for centuries is also home to a large fairgrounds where thousand come from all over India. There are rudimentary roller coasters and ferris wheels, men in cars circling around the vertical “wall of death” and food of all kinds. The crowds are shoulder to shoulder. Our arrival has made the morning newspaper and we are pressed towards the dignitaries and politicians to join them in the presentations and photo shoots. The two of us are just another attraction and the subject of hundreds of selfies each day. Located beside other toy bubble makers is the chief rival. Children are attracted to the soapy bubbles and the toy represents an affordable souvenir to rural farming families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539053377446-CJH8AIRMH1O7HURG5PQR/Baka+Ferryman.jpg Black and White - Baka Ferryman This man rows you from one side of the river to the other. This is a brackish river that separates a small village to the place where buses congregate to take visitors to Baka National Park from Kuching, Borneo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538951475849-84I7DUX5UTN1GRI6ROKP/IMG_3000.jpg Black and White - A Smooth Paddle Paddling through the canals of Inle Lake, around floating vegetable gardens, stilted homes hovering a metre over the glassy water. Dragon flies invade the prow of the canoe and you can hear only the water as it drips off the paddle onto the surface of the lake. You breathe slowly, quietly, as if you are trying to hear an intruder in your own home. You want to take it all in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539139983754-T7GMAXB42LXRAPTATZ4R/Desert+Camels+for+riding+-+Version+2.jpg Black and White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1538954801506-WKOL2O36PBBIR0I9ZCE7/The+Blacksmith.jpg Black and White - The Blacksmith The main street in Varanasi is an unofficial divider, so it seems, between the Hindu and the Muslim populations. A group of men take turns and crouching down and hammering out metal brackets meant to hold metal pipes against a wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539050238424-WKV4MGKG6LFNVO2QS8FJ/IMG_5842.jpg Black and White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539053243197-1KY3HVBF1KR0EHWKZ02A/Photo+for+Kevin+-+Version+2.jpg Black and White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539053587187-M6B0FVS26T2NBG629FP0/Cheroot+Lady%2C+Myanmar.jpg Black and White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539053696529-PJZ37RRG77YQW7KWESK4/Tattoo+Princess.jpg Black and White - Tattoo Princess The older women of the Iban Tribe Lemenak River Longhouse are the traditional tattoo artists and usually have their arms tattooed with their best work. This is a very painful process involving a small wooden club, a makeshift needle and ground charcoal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539053768785-JVFMSO6GEX0EMHJ2K5GX/The+Display+-+Version+3.jpg Black and White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539054385663-EU4YVHW51XMCA1A0Y0SV/Lemenak+River+Boat+Captain.jpg Black and White - Lemenak River Boat Captain Iban himself, it takes a man like this one to get you up the remote Lemenak River to meet up with the Iban tribes that line the river deep into the Borneo jungle and sometimes many days travel to get there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539054801738-JATFZCIEDMH3ULOWE1GM/Train+to+the+North.jpg Black and White - Train To Kandi Packed trains in Sri Lanka slowly pass each other to and from a trip from Ella to Kandi deep within the mountainous tea country of that country. The mismatched tracks can make for a bumpy ride, but it is the perfectly manicured tea bushes that capture the imagination. This train trip should easily be considered a world heritage site. The whole day trip is a great way to meet monks on their way to Kandi where the Temple of the Relic Tooth of the Buddha brings in hundreds, even thousands of worshippers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539056600540-IJUQXVORLV5P13W6OWIY/Dancers+of+Angkor.jpg Black and White - Angkor Wait Angkor Wat receives almost 1 million visitors a year, however they are all concentrated around a handful of sites amongst Angkor City. Angkor city, built in the early 9th century was the largest pre- industrialized city in the world at over 1000 square kilometres. It survived to 1431 when it was sacked. Research is showing that it housed more than 1 million people at one time. It was known as the hydraulic city because of its complicated water dispensing and delivery systems. Here actors take a break from posing in pictures with tourists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539056745144-I7YP8IM15QADW6GEMDKG/Confidence+Meets+Curiosity%2C+Merry+Christmas+everyone%21.jpg Black and White - Confidence Meets Curiosity Young boys everywhere seem to address their curiosity with a visitor before any other concern. It is magical how they always exude a confidence that belies their age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539140254429-XUT88N17D2XUP8O233ZA/Beacons.jpg Black and White - Beacons Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539455410304-G9SFHG2FX8A1DFUHBMRH/IMG_2025.jpg Black and White - Mingun Monks Hsinbyume Pagoda is a gleaming white painted pagoda built in 1861 that is meant to depict the mythical Mount Meru. Lay monks use umbrellas to shade themselves from the blazing sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539456358410-7VHLSST0OTKY1X7U0YVN/Mr.+Philli.jpg Black and White - Mr. Philli Cambodian Pol Pot Regime survivor. Even after seeing unspeakable atrocities Mr. Philli still exudes a rich and open joy for life. His stories broke my heart and brought the entire history of Battambang, Cambodia into colour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539456522085-1U9RYDL3RER95IGQD680/Fighting+Fish.jpg Black and White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539456652154-HFRF38BGHT3OP8WOFFQK/Powerful+Women.jpg Black and White - Powerful Women Women haul huge baskets of wet sand up the steep banks of the Mandalay boat jetty into groaning dump trucks bound for building sites in the core of the city. Mandalay, Myanmar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539459210141-6X2GJUGTQLO45WHJ6PH2/Children+of+the+Badami+Floods.jpg Black and White - Children Of The Badami Floods Even in the aftermath of losing homes, family and belongings, a child can seem to see through all of it in an instant. A simple sound of a fart is a universal recipe for unbridled and ecstatic laughter and suddenly the sadness is gone, and for a moment, it is replaced entirely by the soul of a young mind ready to take on the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539459337087-5OFTHSO3GGKHL6H1P9L7/Badami+Mrs..jpg Black and White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539475296549-B8SPGOB5QGJBMWO1CSTR/Carnival+Boys.jpg Black and White - Carnival Boys Carnies are the same all over the world! Looking tough is all a part of living a life at night and in the streets: confident half smiles, brass knuckled belt buckles, popped collars and muscle shirts. These boys are setting up their human powered ferris wheel in the dirt streets of Mandalay, Myanmar. Soon, families from the area will come through and they will be the stars of the evening as they run up and down the whirling contraption. They swing from the bottom of the seats willing the wheel to move ever faster. The children on board shriek in mock terror. The wheel creaks and moans in protest and the carnival boys simply look more and more at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539557049917-JQ7SJWYL8MP13DTMBH1I/The+Wolfman.jpg Black and White - The Wolfman Judging ceremonial dance at the National Indigenous Cultural Expo 2018 can be pretty difficult. Judges must provide a score for “regalia” the competitors wear, but also their form during the performance. Highest points win money but also pride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1539918487740-R2NB4D5JF1T4P3KTAUIV/Rest+in+Peace.jpg Black and White - Mr. Cromwell He was the biggest dog I had ever met. On a trip to purchase a Great Dane we found on Kijiji came into acquaintance of a certain Mister Oliver Cromwell. His head was bigger than mine and he lived in a trailer home with a sweet lady. This gentleman made an instant connection with me and you could feel it. We left with the other Dane, but the owner of the two dogs said she felt that connection happen. She said no to the other buyers in line for him and pleaded with me to make the trip out again to pick up Oliver. She wanted no money. She only wanted him to be with his soul mate. He got in my car and lived with us for 9 years until cancer eventually surpassed his treatments and he left me almost two years ago. RIP sir! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1543556258627-ZDPANAXU2EAJZG0G0AG9/IMG_0166.jpg Black and White - The Blind Leading The Blind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1577647923093-BUJ6KU3Y7HHYNHDE8ZPD/Thailand+2018+Parade.jpg Black and White https://www.bradburylens.com/work daily 0.75 2016-03-04 https://www.bradburylens.com/yesterdayscoffee daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://www.bradburylens.com/yesterdayscoffee/2019/12/10/whats-the-use-of-elephants monthly 0.5 2020-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576029867089-OZWT4IQI9MY0R3JDJ3PZ/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+6.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? A mahout takes a rest in the shade before heading out for more action on the set of Surin’s Elephant Round-Up where 160 elephants are part of a war-time reenactment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576027250217-MLHRWVDFFQ47UGKFHD35/Sirin+Elephant+and+Mahout Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? Meet Mr. Mao Submark and his elephant Noom-Sek. Together for over 37 years this duo has made their way to stardom in popular Thai movies and are well known around Northern Thailand where they are from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576028277024-S2IK05IQE2VBC1P0U8IB/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+-+3.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? Mr. Mar Submit is 80 years old and is know as a “Krubah” a master teacher of mahouts. The respect for him by many is easily seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576030182521-D04CD5M86L0H4ELFZ2OR/Thailand+2019+Bang+Sophan-35.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? Mahout’s and their steads. In the picture are mostly very young elephants in training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576028614667-GCUUV597TOK0AFW8DWS2/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+4.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? The 93 year old Mr. Boonma Sandee may be the oldest “Krubah” of the bunch. He carries with him a horn that was used in the ceremonies of the day. As a leader of all things elephant, he is treated as a dignitary and afforded the kind of respect given to people of great power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576030864844-KNOTMDJ59J1IEP8RIGTX/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+15.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? Elephants by the truckload arrive in Surin, Thailand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576029349661-2OT4W5BK8SIIEF59SHCA/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+9.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? Ubiquitous at events where elephants are found are people giving the elephant money which he gladly scoops up with a dexterous trunk and hands it to his mahout sitting on the back of his neck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576355197713-94VUBWHIUQEBPAGMFPV9/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+24.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576359488759-SEGZSQK87CKJ1824ZUPH/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+7.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? Behind the scenes of Surin’s Elephant Round-Up’s main event at the soccer stadium, a senior elephant makes a gentle connection with the camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576357337926-QLUP3CMT2XADLBXM173D/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+27.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? Masses of elephants are on full display during the war reenactment at the Surin soccer stadium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576030929754-NLZNV6J7HMDXGQU38OGK/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+19.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? A Thai tourist screams as a baby elephant walks up for a hug. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576030397070-OSV5BWMH25879PNBLXD0/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project+17.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? What would Surin’s Elephant Round-Up be without 160 elephants taking part in the elephant buffet?! Over 2 days an army of volunteers pulls out all the stops in laying out thousand of tonnes of pineapples, melons, bunches of bananas and sugar cane. It is arranged in deep rows along the side of the main road on sturdy tables lined end-to-end and the beasts eat and eat. In-between meals tourists take rides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576029068208-UDQRTMDI9CRIVDL5J4NF/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? An apprehensive young girl attempts to face her fears by getting close to the elephant. The elephant wraps its trunk around her and presses the end against her ear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1576027821963-9WLE139CV5IAREP6G3D9/Thailand+2019+Mahout+Project-20.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - What's The Use of Elephants? On a blazing hot day during the Surin Elephant Round-Up, An elephant is allowed to pull cool water into its trunk and spay it on itself….and its mahout. https://www.bradburylens.com/yesterdayscoffee/2018/12/8/the-heart-steps-ahead-of-the-lens-adventures-in-cambodia monthly 0.5 2019-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1544315762587-6ERF9TUG6F8QOCR2JQSU/Mr.+Philli.jpg Yesterday's Coffee - a blog - The Heart Steps Ahead of the Lens, Adventures in Cambodia Mr. Phillie had his own stories of his three years in captivity. He spoke of the rains, stealing tiny handfuls of rice, hunting insects and hiding them in his clothes. He would sneak away at night to build a small fire to cook this occasional meal. He talked of starvation and death by farming implements and other atrocities. All the while he kept this smile and almost a kind of relief. 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head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702080601728-UB6DWTO4ASNJBHJ2OK26/529A7483.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Starts With A Blast In the 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar a festival in Old Town Phuket, far away from the beaches and resorts exists the Phuket Vegetarian Festival. Ten mornings to early afternoons start with early morning chants, then gory body mutilations, processions through the streets with huge explosions of fireworks, and kilograms of firecrackers that concuss and blow shrapnel in all directions. Somehow this feels more like a pain festival at times. It was the most dangerous photo shoot of my life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073123550-35OYYC5ZG0XNF127UA19/529A6136.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Poke 6:00am and the piercings begin wrapped in unexplained traditions, chants and drumming meant to pull the participants into trances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073287006-H1TOMD8GXGAO9KYKUBRT/529A7214.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Holy Man Holy men and women come to bless homes and businesses. They are met with painful explosions of firecrackers that are thrown directly at them. Those around flinch with shock from the concussion, but the holy man is there to brave this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073276588-8VLBQ3H1D497LNSQR3CC/529A7456.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - A War Zone Carriers of the god effigies are there to shoulder the heavy load during the procession, but also the massive explosions that are part of being in the gods’ orbits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073147617-K1XJ6LJC5LRB4459I6N5/529A7925.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - The Pain Of The Gift Holy men accept and distribute gifts along the procession while them and their followers are pelted with rolls of firecrackers that seem to all light at once. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073165572-VPZJAC7LYHAUZAMRLE2Y/529A7736.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Choked I follow a team of shirtless, brave young lads as they carry their god. They stop occasionally so that those around can load up their burdens with stacks of explosives. The air fills with smoke and unused gunpowder. It begins to choke and cover us with the high-velocity pieces left over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073617044-X03J1Q762Z1BB24SEC8Q/529A7326.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Boom God carriers are hit with a box of firecrackers, which explode with ferocity and intent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073501209-44LSSOJZ0R4EXX83MS7G/529A6237.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Adjustments A processioner surrounded by his first aid and handlers makes some uncomfortable adjustments. Everyone is careful not to make any sudden moves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073228760-6D565OJCFKGXUZNU6NZR/529A7826.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Driving Force God carriers are joined by a pierced processioner who climbs aboard and whips and hollers at his transporters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073425141-A4CQQ6CETZL4DS523G0G/529A6054.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Concentrate A boy concentrates on his trance while a doctor spears him through his cheek with a massive metal spike that gains in width as it enters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073265765-EOC8DXXI17VO0S9T4UDD/529A7842.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Ghost A queen-like ghost makes her way through the crowd, blessing all of us. She locks her eyes on me and continues to move forward. It feels like she is looking into me and then through the back of my head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073327540-KQ1XZHGGJAZM8XM3R6MA/529A6137.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Escalation More daring and imaginative pierces come as the mornings progress, one seemingly meant to outdo the others, only to be followed by something more atrocious and repulsive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073342408-UF2FAAJVUFFN9RNQJ8Q9/529A6255.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Just Checking The discomfort and pain mix with the trance in a battle over the body and mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073366461-VS939R6X0XNHEMW4HP54/529A6026.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Pin Cushion Many agreed this was the most audacious exhibit of overcoming pain seen during the ten days. 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He has just finished hurling the massive, spiked object high in the air so that he could head-butt it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073438693-R4QMQ80AGMSSFBB5VSSI/529A6345.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Swordsmith Dozens upon dozens of punctured processioners are appearing now. You see cheeks perforated by objects like engine parts, wooden stumps, steering wheels and bike tire rims. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb96114da50d330b261021f/1702073810425-OX56W5MKIM1F0S5NOP13/529A7891.jpg Phuket Vegetarian Festival Project - Smoke Is Not Enough Paper and unexploded pieces of firecrackers jet past our heads with some hot pieces wedging between my own cheek and my glasses. Gunpowder fills the lens. 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