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| One of my favorite shots. The Mienh women, like the Akha women , did not welcome being photographed, but here I bought some embroidered ornaments from some of the young children and this woman said it would be ok to photograph her and her child | I love the expression on this young child. Perhaps the older Mienh woman was his grandmother? I also like the little pig coming out from behind the wood pile. | As we walked through this village we came upon this group of women embroidering. We walked up and the offered us stools to sit down on. They then continued sewing and talking and I was able to take this photo with my Coolpix 950 because I could look down at the lcd finder while composing this shot. A little sneaky, but it was a beautiful scene I wanted to share... |
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| This was taken of two of the women in the same group above this row. | The top photo is of the school and the bottom photo is a group of secondary students reading outside. | I was able to take this young girl's photo because I bought more embroidered ornaments from her 'sister.' |
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| Here the children are using a long pole to knock down tamarind pods from the tree. I thought it was interesting that one of the girls was dressed in traditional clothes. | A favorite game of children is to throw one of their sandals down the road and then throw their other sandals to see if they can hit the first sandal. | This photo was taken at the That Luang festival of a young Mienh couple. The young man had come down from Sam Neua to try to find a job in Vientiane, but couldn't, and so was trying to get some money to go back to his village. |
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| Here in a stream that passes through the village bamboo that has been split is being flattened to be used later for ? | When we came upon this little girl she was crouched down crying while the other children were playing their sandal game. After a while she got up and still quite sad walked slowly with her heavy load of water. | Young children playing on platform. |