Another part of the camp I didn’t know existed!
Month: October 2012
30.10.12
Looking into one of the three monasteries here.
29.10.12
A monk walking through no-man’s land towards Burma.
28.10.12
Myawaddy, Burma:
It started when I took a picture of two girls. By the time we left, almost 20 children had come out of nowhere to crowd around the cameras.
27.10.12
Crossing the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge into Myanmar/Burma for a visa run. The river marks the border between the two countries. The boats on the right hand bank are the illegal border crossing.
26.10.12
25.10.12
Breaking the Rules: 500 likes!
I’ve had 500 likes on my blog – thank you everyone! I’ve just found an old photo, taken in January this year, of the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest. What do you think?
24.10.12
A shop selling traditional Karen dress in the camp. These are Karen shirts specifically for males. The stripes are horizontal for women.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
Silhouette of watches for sale at a shop in the refugee camp.
22.10.12
These two boys really love playing hide and seek with the camera. They sprint away every time they see it, but without fail come scurrying back to see every photo.
21.10.12
20.10.12
My breakfast is typically a cup of the sweetest tea known to humankind, with something fried like whatever this is. It used to make me feel incredibly sick, but now I rely on it as my only source of sugar and fat during the day. One of the other teachers told me that sugar is incredibly expensive here, so when they go to a tea shop they invariably spoon a huge amount of sugar into their tea. It tastes more like hot chocolate!
19.10.12
18.10.12
As it was taken a little sneakily with my phone camera (I’m never going to feel comfortable whipping my D-SLR out and taking close-up pictures of people I don’t know), it’s hardly the best picture. Believe it or not, we’re moving quite fast. We’re sitting in (or hanging off the back of) a songthaew (much smaller than the one shown on 16.10.12) and all of these people are refugees travelling back to camp.
17.10.12
16.10.12
15.10.12
14.10.12
13.10.12
12.10.12
11.10.12
The refugee camp is huge. In the distance (left) is zone C, the biggest area with the market, hospital and things. I’m looking over zone B here, and zone A is another 30 minutes walk. (I don’t mean to make them sound like three distinct areas – they all merge together).
10.10.12
09.10.12
08.10.12
Dried shell fish
07.10.12
Does this work or not?
06.10.12
05.10.12
A 40 minute adventurous hike/scramble/slide/climb up muddy cliff slopes through jungle infested with stinging plants, mosquitoes and ants brought me to a place where I could see half of the camp. Unfortunately, there were so many trees that my photos don’t show the majority of camp – this is less than a quarter of it. Note the golden roof of the monastery to the left under the smoke.
04.10.12
I’m sorry for the poor quality of this photo. The white on the right-hand side is actually a whiteboard in the teacher’s offie that I have to lift away from the wall.
This is a Tokay Gecko. It has a very distinctive call which is worth listening to:Â http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mating_call_of_a_male_Tokay_gecko_(Gekko_gecko).ogg
Apparently, it can be quite dangerous; if it bites you it doesn’t let go for up to an hour or more. This one seems to be quite small – it’s about 20cm.
03.10.12
I’ve seen some really good photos taken in the rain that I’d love to be able to replicate. As it is, I’m finding it hard enough to even show the extent of the rain in an interesting way (without getting my camera wet).
02.10.12
The rags (old clothes) we use to clean the tables with.
01.10.12
One of the students who volunteered to look after me; she would do absolutely everything for me if I let her!
Our world. My lens 