- Impressive Photo ! - Peace Dog
- Like the way she seems to be enjoying the rain amidst them people - /javits
- love the colours - piasiliceo
- I hate this note - Mikenj
- I love it!! wohooo!
How I wish there wouldd be a water festival here! - [schmuckphoto] - Cute glasses. - Stan•Shunpike
- Wonder who he's going to splash that bowl of water at - Stan•Shunpike
- wow - animesh.org
- Love the reflection! - michaelgerardceralde™
Thingyan water festival
Just finished Thingyan, the water festival before the Buddhist New Year in Myanmar. Four days of people going nuts on the streets, dancing and drinking and splashing everyone in sight with buckets of ice-cold water. I absolutely loved it.
I'm back in Bangkok now applying for a new Taiwanese visa. I'm not sure whether to take an extra week or so to see some other things in Thailand or just head back to Taiwan.
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Igor Sperotto, Tiac, Daniel Plateado, theshanghaieye, and 660 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Smileywt [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)
Outstanding photo. Great Job.
Igor Sperotto (62 months ago | reply)
Spectacular!
davidreid (62 months ago | reply)
Great shot. Did you take any special precautions to protect your camera from the water?
alidarbac (62 months ago | reply)
I held my camera out in my hand very clearly and just about everyone was kind enough to aim their water on me and not the camera. Some water did splash on my camera, but it's fairly durable. It's seen worse when I've taken in out in a typhoon in Taiwan.
Éder Martinez (62 months ago | reply)
Muito legal.... interessante!
willy gil (62 months ago | reply)
very nice picture...
Robin Tremblay (62 months ago | reply)
Exellent capture ! Bravo.
cfimages (62 months ago | reply)
great shot. I shot a Songkran in Thailand a few years ago and didn't get anything close to that good.
Bernard-SD (62 months ago | reply)
Hey good to see you're back. Awesome job capturing the moment!
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*dans (62 months ago | reply)
Excellent!
very impressive for the moment.
Simul4ti0n (62 months ago | reply)
That's an amazing photo!
anyongfu [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)
haha great capture of a split second in time. looks like fun
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ZARYLLA (62 months ago | reply)
fantastc capture...great moment!
Sirius Ran (62 months ago | reply)
A great moment !
josep gil (62 months ago | reply)
Great shot! congrats.
scrEaMingmANgo (62 months ago | reply)
Wow. Too bad maskofchina only noticed one thing. We have a similar water-splashing where I came from, and it varies from town to town. A friend who is teaching in Thailand mentioned this to me and I tried to finds photos here in flickr. Glad you shared this with the world.
Azli Jamil Photography (62 months ago | reply)
I guess I don't have to tell you what you already know :-)
andrea.. [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)
Beautiful beautiful beautiful
i eaт sтars (62 months ago | reply)
Wooow! Gorgeous photo :)
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alidarbac (62 months ago | reply)
Yeah, if there were a downside to this water festival, it was that Myanmar is still a fairly conservative country. Many of the more attractive women were bundled up and stuck together in groups for protection, though I doubt anything would have happened if one got seperated. And when they got onto the back of pick-ups to get hosed down like in the picture above, most of them were curled up into a ball, since the blasts from the fire hoses are pretty strong and hurt when they hit you in the face. I know since I was huddled up as well when I hopped onto the back of several pick-up truck myself.
On the other hand, I got many proposals for marriage and declarations of love from (ahem) fat chicks speeding by on the road. So I guess I have that going for me.
AshSLO (62 months ago | reply)
Perfect timing. Great execution.
ester B. [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)
Perfect!
neloqua (62 months ago | reply)
Great moment!
dariuszka (62 months ago | reply)
fantastic capture, so full of dynamism...
Jelle Vermeiren (62 months ago | reply)
wow, excellent shot
hope your camera survived this :)
Houser (62 months ago | reply)
What a moment you have captured! Meraviglioso!
fotoJENica (62 months ago | reply)
Superb shot! Wonderful composition and technically excellent!!!
djibx (62 months ago | reply)
Stunnig shot!
Add to my favorites!
guybamboe (62 months ago | reply)
Great capture ! Nice action picture
Melville B. (62 months ago | reply)
Wonderful capture ! Great shot.
Samuel.r.Waters Photography (62 months ago | reply)
awesome moment in time capture... really impressed with this
its mike (62 months ago | reply)
That seems like a great festival! I'll definitely have to go!
a hazelnut tree (62 months ago | reply)
this is wicked-awesome
Acrophobic (62 months ago | reply)
lovely picture.
abre/tus/ojos (62 months ago | reply)
genial
nyomee wallen (62 months ago | reply)
Love to go to Burma and have fun in Thingyan for next April.
please, consider adding this photo to---Burma Land on Map
Yurei_gal (62 months ago | reply)
Great capture!!
vanouxe [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)
this is pricelessssssss!
OzBandit (62 months ago | reply)
wonderful images, captures the moment well
Mandana (on and off) (62 months ago | reply)
wow!! fantastic!
Edgar Thissen (62 months ago | reply)
Superb!!!
Angus R Shamal [OFF] (62 months ago | reply)
such wonderful capture full of life.
Love every pixel of it! ;))
Alpozzi Alberto (62 months ago | reply)
wow EXPLORE!
Congrats! well deserved!
I love this shot, it's fabolous!
b.offers (62 months ago | reply)
Such an explosive photo, I love it!
ruby.salazar (62 months ago | reply)
what a fantastic shot! All those details and the expression on the girls face is great.
Jaboney (62 months ago | reply)
Great shot!
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sprig & sprout (62 months ago | reply)
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing.
Yaprak Soysal Photography Portfolio (62 months ago | reply)
Remarkable capture
VRfoto (62 months ago | reply)
Love this! Super fantastic shot!
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j_granger (62 months ago | reply)
Amazing- should be in a mag.