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soft sell
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Copyright: Benny Verbercht (BennyV) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 416 W: 1 N: 434] (2090)
Genre: Gens
Média: Couleur
Date de prise de vue: 2001-01
Catégories: Vie quotidienne
Versions: version originale
Date de soumission: 2008-06-02 23:57
Vue: 483
Points: 12
[Ligne directrice - Note] Note du photographe
Two girls shy
approaching
with smokes for sale

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EXTRA: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO SMOKING IN BURMA

A smoke in Myanmar is a cheroot. Technically, a cheroot is a cylindrical cigar with both ends clipped. They are inexpensive to roll and in the 19th century they were introduced in India and Burma by the British colonialists.

In present day Myanmar a traditional cheroot is still very popular. It looks like a small cigar, but the tobacco is more like of a cigarette. At one end a rolled-up newspaper strip is used as a filter. I've been told the English-language daily "The Light of Myanmar" is particularly popular for this...

What the girls are selling here are - technically speaking - no cheroots. In the old days these closed tubes used to contain opium, but here it was plain tobacco.

The dried cover leaf was...well, I don't know, but it was very dry. This made smoking one of these things quite a fire hazard on windy days. I've got burnt holes in my (and my neighbour's) longyi to prove that!

So...don't smoke this type of cheroot on a windy day!

How's that for a useful note, he?

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dedicated to the people of Burma,
they are the real light of Myanmar...
Morac, Polonaise, trekks, Wanda1, actagaudi, Cloud__Warrior trouve(nt) cette note utile
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  • Morac Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1256 W: 176 N: 1511] (11508)
  • [2008-06-03 4:30]

Bonjour Benny,

J'aime beaucoup les visages de ces deux enfants.
Leurs regards très différents l'un de l'autre sont aussi très expressifs.
Une belle scène accompagnée d'une note instructive.
Bonne journée

Marc

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  • wolf38 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2234 W: 75 N: 1167] (8182)
  • [2008-06-03 11:16]

Hello Benny. It is wonderful to see the faces decorated with Tanaka. A good and shot worth seeing from this beautiful country. Best regards, Wolfgang.

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  • Wanda1 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1226 W: 21 N: 1561] (8779)
  • [2008-06-04 22:41]

Hi Benny,
This double portrait is so sweet and you have made good use of depth of field. Great details and interesting note too, I would never have guessed that these items were for smoking. A lovely dedication to the people of Myanmar.
Regards
Wanda

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  • trekks Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1666 W: 118 N: 2990] (10138)
  • [2008-06-05 1:37]

hi Benny

Somehow, you have your own style in capture of candid portraits and this one is really candid street shot showing a good daily life scene and children of innocence. Very well composed.

tfs, bill
later

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  • vincz Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2964 W: 85 N: 5038] (17528)
  • [2008-06-09 0:51]

Beautiful with such a great use of shallow DOF. A very exotic image.

Hi Benny

Good compostion and colours. Funny note :)

Andy

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