Dervish on Mt. Phousi

I love this picture. A novice monk — obviously not a dervish, but in a movement that recalls one, at least to me — on a little crag of Mt. Phousi, in Luang Prabang.

Monk(s) of the day

I spend far too much trying to capture the perfect shot of a monk.  It’s silly, I suppose, but really they are very visually striking elements of life here (and in Laos and Cambodia), at first because of their robes, but then beyond that because of their ubiquity and so, by definition, they way they [...]

If he wasn’t a monk…

We were up on top of Mt. Phousi, a limestone hill that’s the spiritual and geographical center of Luang Prabang, at around sunset when this young man (a novice monk) got up on a little rock outcropping and just stood there.  If it was me up there, I know I would have been posing at [...]