{"id":1079,"date":"2008-08-24T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T19:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:04:19","slug":"travel-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/travel-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

This leg of the trip I really got to see faces.\u00a0 I’ve always been interested in portraits, and everywhere I look, from the car window or through the camera’s eye, I see people staring back.\u00a0 Maybe cars don’t come around too often, maybe they’re trying to relay some message across cultures and language with a glance.\u00a0 Some seem forlorn.\u00a0 Some just look tired beyond their years.\u00a0 I regret not asking the driver to stop on the side of the road, when were driving from Xieng Khouang to Samneau.\u00a0 There was this one village, with the sun setting in the background, wooden houses illuminated, and the rice paddies just aglow.\u00a0 I’ve never harvested rice, plowed the fields, or carried water.\u00a0 I’m sure it is some of the most difficult tasks one could do year after year, but I actually thought how wonderful it would be to live that life.\u00a0 Aside from the satellite dishes connected to the humble homes, there are some villages and communities that truly live with the earth and the sun.\u00a0 You’ll still find the colorful products like canned goods, chips and other modern products littering the landscape, but for many moments during our road trip, I actually thought that time had passed by these people.\u00a0 That’s the best photo\u2014the one I didn’t get to take.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This leg of the trip I really got to see faces.\u00a0 I’ve always been interested in portraits, and everywhere I look, from the car window or through the camera’s eye, I see people staring back.\u00a0 Maybe cars don’t come around too often, maybe they’re trying to relay some message across cultures and language with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,59,260],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-lao-culture","8":"category-laos-trip","9":"category-writing","11":"post-with-thumbnail","12":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t