Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, The Chinese signs are in Myang La (Mongla in Burmese), in the northern-most tip of the Shan State, which is a self-governing region, as explained on the text page at the end of the book: > ...Myang La, on the other hand, is much richer, surrounded by large banana > plantations and studded with casinos, night clubs and shops selling > luxury-brand products. It is a self-governing autonomous region, with its > own army and its own laws, using the Chinese yuan currency and running on > the time zone of China. Set up by a former Shan Chinese drug lord, it > caters to Chinese tourists and welcomes Chinese investors and shopkeepers, > as well as Chinese sales staff. Mitch Paris Tristes Tropiques: http://bit.ly/1cQODS6 [Direct download link for PDF file of book project] On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > Mitcha, are there a lot of Chinese in Myanmar now? I notice quite a number > of stores have signs in Chinese. > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, <mitcha at mac.com> wrote: > >> Last month I was in the Shan State in Burma and have put together a book >> project of some 80 pictures, called "Chiang Tung Days," that you can >> download in the form of a 56 MB pdf file by clicking here: >> >> http://bit.ly/1asgee0 >> >> All of the photos were taken with the Summicron-35v4, whose rendering I >> like -- this was the first time that I've shot with it in color on the M9. >> While in recent years I have preferred the 28mm focal length to 35mm, in >> the markets of the Shan State towns I visited there was so much >> congestion, >> so many people in narrow paths or walkways, that I quickly found that, by >> having to shoot closer up with the 28mm (as I usually do), there is so >> much >> going on in the frame that the photographer cannot keep track of it all >> when trying "to make sense of a complex scene," because one has to see >> things both to the left and the right at the same, and the angle of view >> to >> the edges is just too wide to make sense of the scene -- I mean not >> looking >> through the viewfinder but looking at the scene before bringing the camera >> up to your face. Using the 35mm lens solved all that. >> >> --Mitch/Paris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information