ABC Wednesday - H - Hawker - Inle Lake - Myanmar (Burma)

Hawker - Inle Lake - Myanmar

I am sharing this post with  ABC Wednesday

Lots more photographs and information about Myanmar can be found by visiting my Travel Tales posts from my visit to this beautiful country.

Final Post For Now! - Faces on Friday - Buddhist Monk - Waiting For Sunset - Bagan - Myanmar

I love photography and have enjoyed posting on this blog for over three years now.  However having recently discovered  Instagram I find I am posting more and more of my every day shots there instead of here! In a way this is sad but it is a fact that blogging and media sharing is a forever changing experience. Time seems to be forever shrinking with so many interests to enjoy. It seems to me that the posts here are more frequently than not ones I could easily have published on Travel Tales and in fact photos often appear on both blogs.
Also I have always enjoyed taking part in Photography memes and they were one of the initial reasons I set up a separate photography blog. This side of the blog has been neglected recently and when I do post I am certainly not visiting  the number of participants that I feel I should be doing. I will still be visiting my blogging friends but via Travel Tales and will continue to follow back those of you that follow me.

Therefore I feel considering all this it is time to make a change! The plan is to continue with my themed posts World at Work and Faces on Friday but instead of publishing them here they will appear on Travel Tales. In fact I will repost the most recent ones there to introduce the idea to readers  that do not follow this photography blog.

I am sincerely hoping that my followers here will keep in touch with me via Travel Tales and maybe Instagram as well. It is thanks to your encouragement, appreciation and support in recent years that I continue to blog.

Keeping my options and therefore this blog open as I may well be back posting photos here again soon!

If you have not yet seen my posts about my trip to Myanmar in December 2014 and would like to take a look, here is the link to the first one in the series. Yangon - First Impressions of Myanmar

World at Work - Fabric Weaving - Inle Lake - Myanmar

For my latest World at Work post I have chosen to share a visit to a Fabric Weaving Centre in Inle Lake

I am also sharing this post today with Our World Tuesday

If you are interested in reading more about my trip to wonderful Myanmar please visit my Travel Tales blog, where I will be delighted to Welcome New Followers. Leave me a message and I will happily follow you back.

Faces on Friday - Young Lovers - Myanmar

Young lovers enjoying lunch in the park in Yangon, Myanmar.

These photos were taken during my trip to Myanmar over Christmas and New Year 2013/14.  Yes still sharing photos from this fabulous trip one year on, I took so many!

If you are interested in reading more about my trip to Myanmar please visit my Travel Tales blog, where I will be delighted to Welcome New Followers. Leave me a message and I will follow you back.

Orange Bougainvillea - Myanmar - Blogging Break

This photo was taken during my trip to wonderful Myanmar over Christmas and New Year 2013/14.

Orange Bougainvillea

If you are interested in reading more about my trip to Myanmar please visit my Travel Tales blog, where I will be delighted to Welcome New Followers. Leave me a message and I will follow you back.

I am going to take a blogging break I will be back in mid-January with more photos. Wishing all visitors here a great festive season and a Happy New Year. Thankyou for your continuing interest in my blogs.

ABC Wednesday - V - Vegetables

My choice of photo for this weeks edition of ABC Wednesday was taken when I was travelling in Myanmar at a market held in Nyaung Shwe.  

If you are interested in reading more about my trip to wonderful Myanmar please visit my Travel Tales blog, where I will be delighted to Welcome New Followers. Leave me a message and I will follow you back.

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World at Work - Cigar Making - Inle Lake - Myanmar.

For my latest World at Work post I have chosen to share a visit to a Cigar Making Centre in Inle Lake

I am also sharing this post today with Our World Tuesday

If you are interested in reading more about my trip to wonderful Myanmar please visit my Travel Tales blog, where I will be delighted to Welcome New Followers. Leave me a message and I will follow you back.

One of the photos I used here today, also featured in a recent Travel Tales post about my visit to Inle Lake

I used an additional photo of the process for a Macro Monday 2 post on this blog yesterday

Macro Monday - Leaves

I took this photo of the leaves used in the making of Cigars on my visit to Myanmar.  I will be featuring more photos of the Cigar making process in my World at Work series tomorrow.

The photo today was chosen for Macro Monday 2

Macro Monday 2

Faces On Friday - Buddhist Monks - Myanmar

Buddhist Monks in Myanmar.

This photo was taken during my trip to the wonderful country of Myanmar. I have been posting about this beautiful country on my Travel Tales blog.

If you visit my Travel Tales blog and find it to be of of interest, please consider becoming a follower. Leave me a message and I will follow you back as I enjoy interacting via blogging with others from around the world.

World at Work - Mya Thaw Tar Lacquerware Workshop - Bagan - Myanmar.

For my latest World at Work post I have chosen to share a visit to Mya Thaw Tar Lacquerware Workshop in Bagan Myanmar.
I did purchase one of these lovely bowls and I will feature it here another time.

I am sharing this post today with Our World Tuesday

If you are interested in reading more about my trip to wonderful Myanmar please visit my Travel Tales blog, where I will be delighted to Welcome New Followers. Leave me a message and I will follow you back.

ABC Wednesday - P - Pagodas - Myanmar

Christmas Eve 2013 my daughter and I had a very busy day with our guide exploring the 'Bagan Archaeological Zone a Pagoda packed day, the most amazing place. The sunset that we viewed from the terraces of the Shwesandaw Pagoda was a spectacular sight.  A Christmas Eve sunset I will never forget!

If you are interested in viewing more Pagoda photos please visit and consider following my Travel Tales blog.

This photo is my submission for this week when ABC Wednesday has reached  P

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World at Work - Washday - Ayeyarwady River - Mingun - Myanmar

Our World Tuesday

Continuing with my World at Work series of photos taken on my travels. Today I have chosen photos of Washday in Myanmar on the River Ayeyarwady River.

If you are interested in seeing more photos of this beautiful country I have written a series of posts on my Travel Tales blog.

Faces On Friday - Buddhist Monk and Family - Yangon - Myanmar

In Myanmar there is a long tradition of temporary ordination of Buddhist monks and married men can traditionally return to the monastery from time to time, provided they have their wives' permission. As seen in this next photo, where the wife and daughter are proudly walking along behind this monk.   This photo previously appeared in my post entitled Yangon - Further First Impressions of Myanmar - Burma on my Travel Tales blog.

Faces On Friday - World at Work - Ferry Ticket Office - Myanchan Jetty - Mandalay - Myanmar

A couple of weeks ago for my World at Work feature I posted photos of the famous Star Ferry in Hong Kong. I came across this photo when I was writing the next post for Travel Tales which is about a trip to Mingun from Mandalay. It struck me just how very different the World of Work is for these young ladies in comparison to those Hong Kong Ferry Sailors.

The second photo is of my daughter and myself with the 'Tourist Police', there to make sure everything went smoothly and that we caught the right ferry! They were very keen to be photographed with us, they are so excited that more people are now visiting their beautiful country. I thought it made a good subject for 'Faces On Friday'

Please visit my Travel Tales blog if you are interested in seeing more photos of the trip to Mingun.
Mandalay - Part Three - Impressions of Myanmar - Burma