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photographie-irie > Midday Autumn Mountain View, Thompson Pass, Alaska
photographie-irie > Sun Rising Over Chugach Mountains, Thompson Pass, Alaska
photographie-irie > Chugach Morning Alpenglow, Thompson Pass, Alaska      Early morning sunrise alights taller Chugach peaks, while foreground tundra still chills in the shade with morning frost.
photographie-irie > Sunrise Alpenglow, Thompson Pass, Alaska      Sunrise sets tundra aglow after a cold night and morning frost.
photographie-irie > Tai Chi along Hoan Kiem Lake, 2 Hanoi, Vietnam      Sunrise is a busy time around Hoan Kiem Lake, where individual and group exercise abounds. It is a peaceful, serene way to begin your day, before and/or after a serious jolt of Vietnamese java. Along the opposite side of the lake toward the left is Jade Island and it's Ngoc Son Temple. A short bridge brings visitors from the opposite shore, where the island is popular with tourists, locals, and especially young locals in love. Behind the island lies Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre.
photographie-irie > Another Hoi An Sunrise, Hoi An Viet Nam       Clearly Hoi An was one of my favorite places along my journey, where weather patterns and the close proximity to the coast create fertile ground for dramatic sunrise colors. Ocean haze presents diffractive layers changing colors moment by moment as the morning unfolds. The bustle of river activity always seems to offer at least one human counterpoint to this gentle unfolding of the day, even in a less active moment such as this.
photographie-irie > Cone Hat Lady, Hoi An, Vietnam Another lady with cone hat to shield the sun and cool the head. I had one given to me and can testify that they really work well while being quite light and comfortable. Important to carefully coordinate the chin sash for proper visual effect. As much as I appreciate them, though (and seem obsessed with photographing them and their owners) I had to give mine up as they do prove quite cumberwsome when trying to travel light in tight spaces among all the other gear carried while trying to travel light.
photographie-irie > Early Morning Market Dock, Hoi An, Viet Nam      The dock area of the market, where fish and other goods are unloaded from boats to make their way into restaurants, kitchens, homes and businesses. Look at all those cone hats. Sellers and buyers mingle and haggle, exchanging goods for money to start the day. The catch is brought ashore and displayed in bamboo baskets, plastic bowls, and anything that can hold things. Buyers compare quality and make selctions. As inventory is worked through, the scene slowly thins until major action is then confined to the much larger interior market hidden back under the roof behind, to keep the day's building heat at bay. There, not only food and fruits are still sold, but all manner of household items, clothing and tourist items for foreign visitors. In the midst of the bedlam as I mingled in the crowd on another day, people rush back and forth, and it's hard to stay out of their busy way. And although I get some strange looks with my white face and camera, most everyone goes on with their business, pushing and shoving a bit, and ignoring me as long as I stay mostly out of their way.
photographie-irie > Hoi Ann River Sunrise, Hoi An, Vietnam      Sunrise on the Hoi An River, with most fishing boats already at market. Smaller boats still dot the river, and a rig that controls a large fishing net to the right is being raised. The guy on the bamboo frame built into the river bottom pedals a bicycle kind of wheel that reels in line raising the fish net. Another similar frame on the other side of the net, without the wheel, anchors the line opposite the net. Once raised out of the river, fish so caught and jumping around in the net now above water await his departure from the wheel frame to haul them to market too.
Midday Autumn Mountain View, Thompson Pass, Alaska
photographie-irie > Midday Autumn Mountain View, Thompson Pass, Alaska
Midday Autumn Mountain View, Thompson Pass, Alaska
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