MYANMAR 180º: Manussiha
(Updated St. Valentines Day 2017) The Shwedagon Pagoda Our first trip to Myanmar was a one-week whirlwind style adventure. Although I had already committed to making photographs with a fisheye lens, we hadn’t decided...
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The Shwedagon Pagoda
There are some really wild legends about how this pagoda came into being, but I’m going to skip all of that, because this pagoda is interesting enough, without fantasy. Historians estimate that...
The Tazaungdaing Festival, Shan State, Myanmar
During the daytime at the Hot Air Balloon Festival, or “Tazaungdaing Festival”, in the Shan State of Myanmar, large animal-shaped hot air balloons are sent skyward. This is done with great pride and pageantry,...