LIFE ON THE MARGIN

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Photo Information
Camera – Nikon D90
Lens – Nikkor 18-200mm VR
Exposure Time – 1/320s
ISO Speed – 250
Focal Length – 105mm

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Occasionally in life, people come to think their lives are sucks and unfair. So, this is a picture for these people. This is a typical painter who challenges his life in this risky situation. No safety winged used, no insurance, no nothing… Moreover, he stepped his foot on the electric wire. Sigh… I really wonder whether he knows that he could be reached next life within seconds. Sometimes in our lives, we face lots of situation where we are blessed with NO WAY OUT. No other choice but to do it. Sometimes, I even refer these situations as DEAD LOCK. There ain’t no one who aimed to become such grassroots worker. He works like this because it’s happened. A situation that he might want to blame on LUCK.

Lots of renown philosophers stated that LIFE = RISK. Yes, it’s true for me and also for heaps of people, I bet. While writing this narration, I remember the quote I used to read when I was in university. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller.

မီးငယ္

ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ အလုပ္သမားေတြ safety factor ကိုထၫ္႔မတြက္ၾကတာေတာ႔ စိတ္မေကာင္းစရာပဲ… ဒါေပမဲ႔ အကို႐ိုက္ထားတာ ေလးက သူတို႔ရဲ႕ဘ၀ ဘယ္ေလာက္ခက္ခဲ ၾကမ္းတမ္းေနတယ္ဆိုတာကို စဥ္းစားခ်င္စရာ ေကာင္းေအာင္ ဆြဲေဆာင္မႈရွိတယ္…
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@ မီးငယ္ >> Thanks for your comment and I am so glad that you can see a story from my photo…
MingMaHa

this photo must be from the country of Burma. i wonder why did the world cannot change this situation…
Seng Pan

I am definitely touched by this story. Thanks for sharing. It really inspires me to continue working on my paper which I am procrastinating quite a while.
Uncle S Win

Taking RISK is depends on the the current situation of one’s life. May be that man’s life is in very very low profile made him decide to do such a dangerous risky works earning a lot for him and his family, leaded him to choose that kind of job as Do or Die.

Good works Wil… hope you will become not only excellent photographer but also a good philosopher one day… I guess.
KZO

OMG! Even safety is important they all are use to work like that. Their life is very poor. Thanks for your photo.
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@ MingMaHa >> Thanks for your comment, bro… Again, LIFE = RISK…

@ Seng Pan >> I am so glad that it touches you, my friend… I hope your future visits here and I will try to have more shots here…

@ Uncle S Win >> Thanks a lot for your compliment, Uncle… You write a lot better than me…

@ KZO >> Yes, this kind of work pay off better to these people, I guess…
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interesting point of view.
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@ Linn >> Thanks a lot, K.Linn…
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အင္မတန္ေကာင္းတဲ့ ပံုပါပဲ
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@ Arkar >> Thanks a lot, bro…
Shwe Wut Hmone Khine

Bro , Very nice one !
There is saying “Safety First”, but sometimes “Safety Last, Money First”. Esp for the people out of school… They, themselves, are their Survivors only… No one to back up for them!! Are they Victims of what?? Wanna say like “Victims of Life.” Thanks for yr astounding creativity…
ZinMar

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure…
Life=Risk…
I like these.
U share not just photo but thoughts!
Thks
ZarLi

This shot make me deep thought. Earn his income by this way is nobody’s fault. Should we blame to his luck? According to Buddha speech, luck comes from what we did. Should we blame him for what he did bad? If he knew this, would he do any bad?
We all are travelers of the unstoppable journey, even we want to stop, cannot. The idea I got is getting chance to be taught by Buddha way of thinking and obeying the Buddha words must be the way to escape.
Thanks for the shot and the IDEAS…
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@ Shwe Wut Hmone Khine >> Yes, the meaning of life itself is “STRUGGLE”… Thz for your visit and comment…

@ ZinMar >> Just mentioning the quote of a famous philosopher… Glad that you like it…

@ ZarLi >> Thanks a lot from your compliments from religion points of view. Well done, my sis…
Su Hnin

really nice shot bro.!
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@ Su Hnin >> Thanks a lot, sis… Sometimes, these snapshots tell very interesting stories…
PonGyi

juz a one shot… but it says a lot of words… look at him… the way he wears & the way he winds the rope around his chest to climb up the buildings… he doesn’t have proper clothing suitable for his job… he doesn’t have necessary equipments to climb up to such heights… & of course he doesn’t have life insurance for doing such a risky job… most ppl from our country don’t recognize those safety things & even he doesn’t know those r the things he should concern… or even though he’s concerned about his risky life, he has to forget everything for one single word “Money”…

anyway, thz for the sharing & giving such thoughts bro… bravo again!!! ;D
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@ Pon Gyi >> Your comment give a great spectrum of synergy to my post… We never know how many people are relying on his income… For them, MONEY matters most, my sis…
Minn Hann

life=risk… i wonder this photo…
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@ Minn Hann >> Thanks a lot for your comment, bro…
Kyi Sandar

Congratulations for ur 1st photo created by ur new camera D90. Wishing u make more and more wonderful photos for all.
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@ Kyi Sandar >> Thanks, Ji Ji… More wonderful photos? I will try my best…
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more pics, more natural pics please :)
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@ Linn >> Oh, bro. You like this? Sure sure, will do more…
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Poverty is the culprit. People need money – they need the work. So, they can’t be picky about safety conditions. If he didn’t take the job, someone else will. We can’t blame him for not abiding to safety standards. A lot of people in our country are in this similar position, and that truly is heart breaking.

Thanks for this reportage. This is a powerful picture.

p.s. I would have liked it even more if a black-and-white or desaturated version of this photo was presented. The message would be conveyed more strongly in a less saturated tones.
PaukSi

ဘ၀ဆုိတာ မလြယ္ပါလား ဆုိတဲ႔ အေတြးေလး ၀င္မိပါတယ္။ ဓာတ္ပံုေလးရဲ႕ အေပၚမွာ အေၾကာင္းအရာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ျမင္ေစပါတယ္။ ေက်းဇူးပါ အစ္ကိုေရ ဓါတ္ပံုဆရာေကာင္း တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္ပါေစလုိ႔ ဆုေတာင္းေပးပါတယ္ဗ်ာ။
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@ Soe >> Thanks a lot, bro… I have tried B&W, bro… Didnt appear nicer cau’z too many BLACK objects. With B&W, the painter becomes invisible too…

@ PaukSi >> Thanks a lot for your words and I am so happy that you could see a story from my shot… I will try more, my friend…
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yeah, would be nice to reflect more photos like this.. I like it indeed.
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@ Linn >> Sure, bro. I will try to have more…
အရီးေလး

လူေလး… ရုိက္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ဘ၀သရုပ္ေဖာ္ပံု က အင္မတန္ ထိထိမိမိရွိလွတယ္… ဘ၀ သမားေတြ အတြက္ေတာ့ ဒီလိုပဲ ႀကိဳးစား ၊ ရုန္းကန္ ၊ ရွင္သန္ ရတာပဲ လူေလးေရ… သမုဒၵရာ ၀မ္းတစ္ထြာမို႔ ေတာ္ပါေသးရဲ႕ ၊ ၀မ္းတစ္ေတာင္ဆို ခက္ရခ်ည္ရဲ႕… စကားမစပ္ ကင္မရာ အသစ္ကို ဒီပံုနဲ႔ ေစ်းဦးေဖာက္လိုက္ တာလား…
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@ အရီးေလး >> အေရးအသား ေကာင္းလွပါေပ႔ ဗ်ာ။ ကင္မရာ အသစ္နဲ႔ ပံုေတြက Bangkok Songkran ဆိုတဲ႔ post မွာ ကတည္းက တင္ထားတာပါ။ ေစ်းဦးေပါက္ေတာ႔ ဟုတ္ဘူး ေပါ႔။ ႐ိုက္ထားတာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ပါပဲ။ အမ်ားႀကီး တင္ရင္ ပရိတ္သတ္ ပ်င္းမွာ စိုးလို႔ပါ။
SuWei

khan sar ya bar de…
photo goh kyi pyi daw…
thanks for the portray of life, the harsh reality and the call of MONEY… to risk life in such a way…
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@ SuWei >> Thanks for your compliment, sis…
Ye Tun

ဘယ္နားမွာလဲ… ကိုရဲ ရဲ႕… ေနာက္ဆိုရင္ သစ္ပင္ႏႈတ္တဲ႔ ပံုေတြ႐ိုက္ရမယ္…
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@ Ye Tun >> It’s near my home, bya… In photography, every scene creates a moment…
MeNge

Feel something !
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@ MeNge >> Something? Like what?
ကဘူး

ရွာရွာႀကံႀကံရုိက္ႏိုင္လို႔ ခ်ီးက်ဴးပါတယ္ ဗ်ာ။
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@ ကဘူး >> Thanks for your appreciation…
Dana

So many thoughts going through my mind! It sure makes one think about life , luck, philosophy! He isnt killing, stealing, he is working, doing his best, my dad taught me there is always honour in that.
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@ Dana >> Thks for the compliment and we do share the same thought. Those people always deserve a HONOR…

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