Docs from Jerry Lee, tagged "portrait"

Painted Faces

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:13:50 +0000

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Performance of chinese acrobatics in the city of Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Painted Faces

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:48:47 +0000

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Performance of chinese acrobatics in the city of Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Faces of Morlum - Country Music

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:37:48 +0000

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Morlum "mor" means doctor, "lum" or "ruam" means to dance, these are musicians and singers that performs in rural areas of Thailand, especially in the north-eastern regions, mostly they are to entertain during festive occasions, but also during funerals and temple events. The music that they play is known as "Luuk Thun" meaning children of the rice-fields.

Free Burma!

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:26:35 +0000

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deidicated to the monks of burma in their fight against tyranny of the government.

Umbrella Boy

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:34:52 +0000

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Photo captured during the re-planting of rice, it is very much a family exercise in these parts, a traditional way of subsistence farming, village of Ban Donwai, N.E. Thailand.

Tying The Knot - An Issan Wedding

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:02:17 +0000

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Series of shots about a thai wedding in the rural village of Ban Donwai, N.E. Thailand. The ceremony here shows the "tying of the knot" which is an offering of blessings and protections, also seen holding in his hands, the bride and bridegroom are given money, ripe banana and a ball of sticky rice as symbolic good wishes. This is the celebration after the ceremony.

Talk Talk

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:02:33 +0000

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Flying Mona: The Modern Aspara

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:32:28 +0000

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Captured at the children's games during the annual agricultural fair, Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Bungie Girl

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:32:11 +0000

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Captured at the children's games during the annual agricultural fair, Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Workers of the Issan Ricefields

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:24:09 +0000

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The harvesting of rice in the traditional manual method of using the sickle, this is family scale self-subsistence farming captured at the village of Ban Donwai, Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Most people would hire somebody using a powered tool, which will get the job done much quicker, it is a time sensitive operation, as it is more difficult to cut when the seeds grows heavy and the stalks starts bending over.

The Dark Soil

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:36:47 +0000

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The Soil Dark in Thai means, good earth and food abundant. It is their description of living in Issan, the Mekong Indochine part of Thailand. First of series of pictures documenting the traditional farmers and their subsistence way of life.

People and Wheels

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:34:53 +0000

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Photo captured in village of Ban Donwai, Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Loy Krathong Festival

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:45:16 +0000

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Issan Folk Dancing - "Loy" means "to float" and a "Krathong" is a lotus-shaped vessel made of banana leaves containing a candle, three joss-sticks, some flowers and coins. In fact, the festival is of Brahmin origin in which people offer thanks to the Goddess of the water. Thus, by moonlight, people light the candles and joss-sticks, make a wish and launch their Krathongs on canals, rivers or even small ponds. It is believed that the Krathongs carry away sins and bad luck, and the wishes that have been made for the new year due to start. Indeed, it is the time to be joyful and happy as the sufferings are floated away.... more photos to follow ...

Painted Faces

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:15:26 +0000

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Performance of chinese acrobatics in the city of Udon Thani, N.E. Thailand.

Songkran - Water Festival of Thailand

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:40:07 +0000

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Songkran is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13 every year and lasts for 3 days. During this time, people from the rural areas who are working in the city usually return home to celebrate the festival. Thus, when the time come, Bangkok temporarily turns into a deserted city. Songkran is a Thai word which means "move" or "change place" as it is the day when the sun changes its position in the zodiac. It is also known as the "Water Festival" as people believe that water will wash away bad luck.

Songkran greetings includes a little sprinkling of water and a touch of talcum powder, in this case, the girls are using rice flour which is a lot cheaper and does stickier mess, playing with powder bombs as this is already forbidden in the big cities.

Photo captured at Nong Prajak, Udon Thanii, N.E. Thailand. ( One of my all-time favourite shot, and no, i did not get wet, as i shot these inside a car following the action, with the lectric window going up and down whenever possible. )

Songkran - Water Festival of Thailand

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:38:41 +0000

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Songkran is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13 every year and lasts for 3 days. During this time, people from the rural areas who are working in the city usually return home to celebrate the festival. Thus, when the time come, Bangkok temporarily turns into a deserted city. Songkran is a Thai word which means "move" or "change place" as it is the day when the sun changes its position in the zodiac. It is also known as the "Water Festival" as people believe that water will wash away bad luck.

The Songkran tradition is recognized as a valuable custom for the Thai community, society and religions. The value for family is to provide the opportunity for family members to gather in order to express their respects to the elders by pouring scented water onto the hands of their parents and grandparents and to present them gifts including making merits to dedicate the result to their ancestors.

Photo captured on the streets of Nongkhai, N.E. Thailand.

Songkran - Water Festival of Thailand

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:36:10 +0000

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Songkran is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13 every year and lasts for 3 days. During this time, people from the rural areas who are working in the city usually return home to celebrate the festival. Thus, when the time come, Bangkok temporarily turns into a deserted city. Songkran is a Thai word which means "move" or "change place" as it is the day when the sun changes its position in the zodiac. It is also known as the "Water Festival" as people believe that water will wash away bad luck.

The Songkran tradition is recognized as a valuable custom for the Thai community, society and religions. The value for family is to provide the opportunity for family members to gather in order to express their respects to the elders by pouring scented water onto the hands of their parents and grandparents and to present them gifts including making merits to dedicate the result to their ancestors.

Photo captured on the streets of Nongkhai, N.E. Thailand.

Songkran - Water Festival of Thailand

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:35:43 +0000

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Songkran is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13 every year and lasts for 3 days. During this time, people from the rural areas who are working in the city usually return home to celebrate the festival. Thus, when the time come, Bangkok temporarily turns into a deserted city. Songkran is a Thai word which means "move" or "change place" as it is the day when the sun changes its position in the zodiac. It is also known as the "Water Festival" as people believe that water will wash away bad luck.

The Songkran tradition is recognized as a valuable custom for the Thai community, society and religions. The value for family is to provide the opportunity for family members to gather in order to express their respects to the elders by pouring scented water onto the hands of their parents and grandparents and to present them gifts including making merits to dedicate the result to their ancestors.

Photo captured on the streets of Nongkhai, N.E. Thailand.

Siam Festivity

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:03:56 +0000

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Street parade in the city of Nongkhai, taken few months earlier. Performers here are not professionals, therefore one can see the comparison in previous photos, but since this is not commercial, the costumes are provided by local authourities and are more genuine and accurate, the scarf and wrap is of woven silk, engraved neck jewellery and the silver belt is of filigree work.

Siam Festivity

nobody@ipernity.com (Jerry Lee) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:03:47 +0000

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