Thailand, 2001.
Chiang Mai, Thailand.
タイ チェンマイ
Photography by Michitaka Kurata
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Mahout reads with his elephant. Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2010
Photo: Steve McCurry
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some more drawings from my sketchbook that I did while in Thailand at the beginning of the month!
The top one is of a cool house in Chiang Mai with a little iced tea/drinks stand out front-- I loved all of the tiny businesses all crammed next to each other in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, especially the ones with hand-painted or otherwise unique, eye-catching signage. It seemed like you could buy any sort of thing you could want, from produce to snacks to clothes to electronics, just walking down any single block. I loved the abundance of power lines in the cities, too, as another visual sign of life and activity.
The bottom two sketches are some stealthy life drawing I did in Suvarnabhumi airport, and drawings of passerby from photos I took while visiting Wat Arun in Bangkok. There were lots of people strolling around and taking photos of one another at Wat Arun in beautiful traditional dress, and at first I thought they were a wedding party or something-- but then I noticed the signs for costume rentals, and also heard a few of them speaking Korean. I wondered if there was any controversy about a religious site being used as a place for dress-up and photographs, but I didn't see anyone shoot the tourists any obvious dirty looks. Part of me was jealous of them in those beautiful outfits, but as a white person I'd stand out a lot more than the Asian foreign tourists, and maybe just look kind of silly.
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Lantern Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Population: 127,240
Urban population: 1,198,000
Note: the city is also sometimes transliterated as Chiengmai or Chiangmai.
One submitter commented: “Popular vacation destination in Thailand”
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Thailand, 2001
Chiang Mai, Thailand.
タイ チェンマイ
Photography by Michitaka Kurata
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More subtle Lifeweaver details, the city the Overwatch Wiki has listed as his hometown, Chiang Mai, is the largest city in Northern Thailand and is also referred to as the "Rose of the North".
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