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There is a timeless quality about much of rural Southeast Asia. Things are done now the way they have been for a thousand years.
These women are working on the periphery of a floating island on Inle Lake in Myanmar. The vertical bamboo poles are the supports for a bamboo mesh mat that is covered with earth dug from the swampy shores.
The dirt-covered mat becomes a field and, as successive years and layers of soil weigh it down, it gradually sinks to the shallow bottom and becomes a real island and then then the bamboo poles are removed to be used again.
The heavy pp-ing and vignetting is an attempt to look 'old.'
These women are working on the periphery of a floating island on Inle Lake in Myanmar. The vertical bamboo poles are the supports for a bamboo mesh mat that is covered with earth dug from the swampy shores.
The dirt-covered mat becomes a field and, as successive years and layers of soil weigh it down, it gradually sinks to the shallow bottom and becomes a real island and then then the bamboo poles are removed to be used again.
The heavy pp-ing and vignetting is an attempt to look 'old.'