SmugMug > keywords > bagan > Archeological site of Bagan - Myanmar | Burma - Ananda Pahto built between 1190 and 1105.
SmugMug > keywords > bagan > A couple of local young guys having a good time up on a temple at dusk.

Location: Bagan, Myanmar

Lens used: 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
SmugMug > keywords > bagan > Though very few of the Bagan temples are venerated anymore, they're not completely ignored by the locals.  Like the foreign tourists that come here, the locals also enjoy climbing them and hanging out.  These young guys climbed the same temple I was enjoying this evening to work on their biology homework and later, as the sun started to set, admire the view.  

They were cool and were willing to indulge me in my desire to get a good photo.  Here, they gave me a pretty 'natural-looking' pose of contemplating the view.  Thanks Guys!

Location: Bagan, Myanmar

Lens used: 10-22mm f3.5-4.5
SmugMug > keywords > bagan > 2 Stupa and 5 palms.

Location: Nyaung U, Myanmar

Lens used: 24-105mm f4.0 IS
SmugMug > keywords > bagan > A simple, but well-tended family hut sits in the shadow of one of the numerous Bagan temples.

Location: Nyaung U, Myanmar

Lens used: 24-105mm f4.0 IS
SmugMug > keywords > bagan > Man with his cattle-drawn cart as shot from atop a temple.

Location: Bagan, Myanmar

Lens used: 24-105mm f4.0 IS
SmugMug > keywords > bagan > The Myanmar government has closed off roof-access to some of the larger Bagan temples, such as this impressive gold-plated one in an attempt to get people (foreigners and locals alike) to pay to go into the man-made viewing platform they built in the middle of the Bagan plain.  Ignorant folks on organized tours, near as I can tell are the only ones that fall for this ploy.  Independent-types are usually much more savvy than this and try their darnedest as they travel around the country to give the repressive Myanmar regime as little money as possible.

Thankfully, the vast majority of the thousands of temples at Bagan are free and open to whomever wishes to climb up them and soak up the views.

Location: Bagan, Myanmar

Lens used: 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
SmugMug > keywords > bagan > A late afternoon shot of the Irrawaddy river and a couple of temples, taken from on-high.

I like how the dirt roadways draw you into the shot.  

In hindsight, I probably used too intense a Grad ND filter for this shot as the whole scene looks a little 'fake' (a 2-stop may have been more appropriate).  But I'm okay with it.

Location: Bagan, Myanmar

Lens used: 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 w/3-stop Grad ND filter
SmugMug > keywords > bagan > Archeological site of Bagan - Myanmar | Burma, Htilominlo Pahto built in 1218.
Archeological site of Bagan - Myanmar | Burma - Ananda Pahto built between 1190 and 1105.
 > Archeological site of Bagan - Myanmar | Burma - Ananda Pahto built between 1190 and 1105.
Archeological site of Bagan - Myanmar | Burma - Ananda Pahto built between 1190 and 1105.
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