Dear Friends, I’m sorry I haven’t sent out any Photos of The Day recently. I took my first job in over six months and then rushed back to join the family in Myanmar, which is the only country we’ve visited in our six months of traveling where there is essentially no internet (outside of Rangoon).
While Rangoon is not unlike most Asian cities with just a little less traffic, what I saw outside the former capital was close to time-travel back to a pre mechanical era. In Mrauk U I would go out at daybreak to take portraits on the side of the road. While there was constant human traffic – monks with their alms bowls, farmers herding cattle, kids carrying water home from the wells scattered about, women carrying wood, vegetables and flowers in baskets on their heads – I never heard even one engine. It was very calming. I will show you those portraits this week. After Mrauk U we spent four days by the sea in Thandwe. Every evening at sunset, boats covered with lights to attract squid and fish would sparkle on the horizon and would fish all night until daybreak. When they came to shore, women would help the men carry the fish to the beach in baskets and would then set the fish to dry on blue netting spread out on hay on the beach.
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