Three Generations Dressed for Songkran Celebration
May Weller - Celebration at the Temple
May has just returned from a 2 month visit to Thailand, her home country. She visited a temple in Lamphoon Province where this photograph was taken. Each April the Country celebrates “Songkran Festival” in which these women were participating with their very colorful dress, complimented by a great variety of necklaces, scarves and pennants. Part of the celebration involves returning sand to the Temple to replenish that removed during the past year which inevitably adheres to the worshiper’s feet or soles of the shoes with each visit. Elaborately decorated sand mounds are also sculpted by individuals to help repay the debt. These people came from Burma about 100 years ago and are known locally as the “Mung Tribe”. About 50 families live near this Temple, all vegetarians who practice the Five Precepts of Buddha.
Canon EOS Rebel T2i w/EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens
Focal Length – 53mm
Shutter – 1/125 sec
Aperture – f/4.5
ISO – 100
I love the color and the women’s faces.
Thank you for your comment, I can’t wait to go back and see everyone soon.
How wonderful that you had the opportunity to go back to your ‘home country’. I hope that it was all you dreamed it would be. Your photograph is beautiful! These women are so beautiful and their faces speak a thousand words! Good work!
May, your colorful photo is charming and reminds me of my delightful visits to Thailand in the 90s. Were the ladies happy to have their pictures taken? I had the chance to visit and photograph the Karen tribe people in northern Thailand (who also came originally from Burma) where the women adorn their elongated necks with brass rings and they smile a lot.