[identity profile] winterknight.livejournal.com 2009-01-22 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Beautiful picture, beautiful girl. I love what she's wearing.

[identity profile] lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com 2009-01-23 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
it is the traditional dress of her people.

[identity profile] pinkroo.livejournal.com 2009-01-22 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
it really is a breathtaking picture. Any backstory?

great story : )

[identity profile] pinkroo.livejournal.com 2009-01-23 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
where were you, exactly?

Re: great story : )

[identity profile] lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com 2009-01-23 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
I was on a path that wound around below the rock, in a little village called Tavan, in northern Vietnam.

[identity profile] fivecats.livejournal.com 2009-01-22 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
that's a great look in her eyes.

what was happening when you were taking this picture (and after)?

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[identity profile] lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com 2009-01-23 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
I was walking through the village, and she was sitting up on a rock chewing on a piece of sugar cane. I turned to take her picture and she turned her head away from me. As I came around the rock, I tried again, and she stood up and looked in the other direction.

I waited.

She turned to see if I was still there, and I took this photograph. The next shot shows her grinning at me.