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IMMORTAL MOM

May 7th, 2009
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SHOOTING

It was taken during my recent trip to Bangkok.  Pantip IT City is the biggest playground for me in Bangkok.  I go there and shop for gears, meet up with friends, and shop around the World Trade Center.  It was 17th Apr 2009.  I went Pantip to buy some lens and needed some cash.  So I decided to run down to money changer.  And happened to see a mother and a son near Platinum Shopping Mall. Yes, they are beggars.  Mom was wearing a smile and asking for some coins from the visitors passing by.  I have given a 20 Baht note and asked her permission for a single photo.  She smiled and said YES.  Thanks for the shot.

DEDICATION

Coming Sunday, May 10th is International Mothers’ Day.  A friend of mine requested me to have a dedication post here on my page.  Something tribute to Mothers!

What she does, who is she, where she comes from?  We don’t need to care.  Because she is Everything…  she is Mom…

Everything Mom

How did you find the energy, Mom
To do all the things you did,
To be teacher, nurse and counselor
To me, when I was a kid.
How did you do it all, Mom,
Be a chauffeur, cook and friend,
Yet find time to be a playmate,
I just can’t comprehend.
I see now it was love, Mom
That made you come whenever I’d call,
Your inexhaustible love, Mom
And I thank you for it all.
By Joanna Fuchs

done

IMMORTAL LOVE…

Photo Information
Camera – Nikon D90
Lens –
Nikkor 18-200mm VR
Exposure Time – 1/100s
ISO Speed – 400
Focal Length – 42mm

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48 Comments

Nice capture, bro!

Soe
May 7th, 2009

Happy Mother’s Day..
anyway, great photo…

Su Hnin
May 7th, 2009

@ Soe >> Appreciated, bro…

@ Su Hnin >> Same to you and thanks for the comment…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 7th, 2009

Happy Mother’s Day! Thanks, YLO. I love this poem and make sure to share with friends on this coming Friday evening conversation club. Photo is nice as well. Lets pray for all of our mother!

SY
May 7th, 2009

OMG!!! i salute ya for this shot bro!!! the whole scene look so natural… the way she is sitting, the kid is sleeping & the way the puppy is lying… all those things make ur pic awesome… & last but not least, her perfect sweet smile plays the most important composition of the pic… like ya said, may b she doesn’t have anything… but she possesses such a sweet smile which means everything for her kid… the best street shot bro!!! ;D

PonGyi
May 7th, 2009

compare with MM, Thai poor woman get weigh and can smile sweetly than mm beggar
may be my sense is strange
i notice a sleeping dog near them
a good photo

MM Thinker
May 7th, 2009

@ SY >> Same to you, Ma San Yee. Way to go…

@ Pon Gyi >> Thanks a lot for your description comment, my sis… It was a snapshot but I love it so much…

@ MM Thinker >> ROFL… You truly are a great thinker, bro…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 7th, 2009

this shot is a different shot you’ve ever taken. I hv no idea how to comment. But, i feel so sad after seeing the mom and son. yeah, it’s a good memory for Mother’s Day in ur blog.

Yinnwe
May 7th, 2009

@ Yinnwe >> Thanks a lot, my sis. Actually, these LIFE photos are which I love. But I am sharing different photos here to have different tastes…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 7th, 2009

Great shot. I love her smile and the things displayed in the scene are so perfect especially to plastic bags, bowl, kid and dog. I don’t want to mention too much for that but it’s showing what is the meaning of life. It’s really pitiful.

MYO HAN HTUN
May 7th, 2009

@ MYO HAN HTUN >> Thanks for your comment, bro. Painful but she has maternal love…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 7th, 2009

beautiful poem and nice photo to look at.

Linn
May 7th, 2009

@ Linn >> Thanks a lot, bro… Appreciated…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 7th, 2009

Innocent smile and moral beauty…

Pinkgold
May 7th, 2009

@ Pinkgold >> Thanks for your thoughtfulness…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 7th, 2009

… ေက်း၏းဇူးႀကီးပါ႔ လူေလးရယ္ ၊ လူေလးေျပာမွ အရီးလည္း အေမမ်ားေန႔ ကို သတိထား မိေတာ႔တယ္။ အရီးလည္း အေမအတြက္ တစ္ခုခု ုျပင္ဆင္ေပးဖို႔ အခ်ိန္ေလး ရတာေပါ႔။ ပခံုးလက္ႏွစ္သစ္ ၊ ေျခဖ၀ါး လက္ႏွစ္သစ္ကေန လူလူသူသူ ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ေကၽြးေမြးေစာင့္ေရွာက္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ အေမ႔မ်ားရဲ႕ ေက်းဇူးဟာ ျမင္းမိုရ္ေတာင္မက ျမင့္မားလြန္းပါတယ္ ကြယ္။ ဘုရားေတာင္မွ အေမ႔ေက်းဇူးကို ႏို႔တစ္လံုးဖိုး ေက်ေအာင္ မဆပ္ႏိုင္တာ အရီးတို႔လုိ လူမ်ဳိးအတြက္ေတာ႔ ေ၀းေပါ႔။ အေမရဲ႕ ရင္ခြင္ဟာ အေဖ႔ထက္ ပိုၿပီး ေႏြးေထြးတယ္လို႔ ခံစားမိတယ္။ အရီးကေတာ႔ မိန္းမ မို႔ ဘက္လိုက္တာေတာ႔ မဟုတ္ဘူးေပါ႔။ လူေလးမွာ စာနာ နားလည္တတ္တဲ႔ စိတ္မ်ဳိး ရွိေနတဲ႔အတြက္ လူေလးရဲ႕ ကိုယ္ပုိင္ မိသားစု ဘ၀မွာလည္း ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္းျပၫ္႔ သာယာႏိုင္မွာပါ။ ဒီလို လွပ ေသသပ္တဲ႔ အလင္းေရာင္မ်ဳိး ေပးစြမ္းႏိုင္တဲ႔ တင္ဆက္ပံုမ်ိဳးကို လူငယ္ေတြၾကားမွာ ေတြ႔ရခဲေပါ႔ကြယ္။ ေနာင္မ်ားမွာလည္း ဘ၀ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ တင္ဆက္ပံုမ်ိဳး ဆထက္ထမ္းပိုး တင္ဆက္ႏိုင္ပါေစ ကြယ္။ ေကာင္းခ်ီးခံစားရပါေစ လူေလးေရ…

အရီးေလး
May 7th, 2009

nga kyite lote kwa ……poem and photo…good job man !!! :)

Treasure
May 7th, 2009

@ အရီးေလး >> Thanks for your appreciation towards my tribute. To be honest, I love those LIFE photos most. And I wont stop shooting these whenever chances grants me. Way to go, my sis…

@ Treasure >> Thanks a lot, sis… Just a small tribute to Mom…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 7th, 2009

အကို အရမ္းေကာင္းတဲ့ ႐ိုက္ခ်က္ေလးပါ။ ဒီပံုေလး ၾကၫ္႔ၿပီး ခံစားခ်က္၂ ခု ခံစားရတယ္။ တစ္ခုက သနားတဲ႔စိတ္ ၊ ေနာက္တစ္ခုက ႐ိုးရွင္းတဲ့ သူ႔အၿပံဳးေၾကာင့္ စိတ္ေအးခ်မ္းမႈကို ရတယ္။ သ႔ူလို ေနရာမွာဆိုရင္ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား သနားခ်င္စိတ္ ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ငိုမဲ႔မဲ႔ လုပ္တတ္ၾကတယ္ေနာ္။ အခု သူ႔အၿပံဳးေၾကာင္႔ ပိုက္ဆံလွဴရတဲ႔ သူလဲ စိတ္ခ်မ္းသာမယ္ လို႔ ထင္တယ္။

Yan Paing
May 8th, 2009

@ Yan Paing >> Thanks for your comment. You have very different way of seeing an art. And I truly appreciate that. You have a pair of optimistic eyes…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 8th, 2009

Absolutely beautiful words and image, a good tribute for a mum!

Tim927
May 8th, 2009

@ Tim927 >> Thanks a lot for visit and comment, my friend…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 8th, 2009

so meaningful bro! gdie poem with the so apt pix..!
cheers to all mothers of the world!!

M-O-T-H-E-R
“M” is for the million things she gave us,
“O” means only that she’s growing old,
“T” is for the tears she shed to save us,
“H” is for her heart of purest gold;
“E” is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
“R” means right, and right she’ll always be,
Put them all together, they spell “MOTHER”,
A word that means the world to all of us. ..

SuWei
May 8th, 2009

At a glance,i wonder the way she asking for money..coz of her smile.
and the lotus – shaped hand shows the sign of Thai nationality.
The child’s falling asleep under the cool shade of his mom peacefully.
Good job! bro

ZinMar
May 8th, 2009

nice shot bro, I like the mother’s smile. I can’t describe feeling of that photo even I feels something in my heart about that photo.

PhoLa
May 8th, 2009

Nice photo brother, ဓါတ္ပံုေလးက ကေလးေလးရဲ႕အေမကို အရမ္းသနားတယ္ ဗ်ာ။ တကယ္ပါ။ ဓါတ္ပံုၾကည့္ၿပီးမွ စိတ္ထဲမွာ ဘယ္လုိျဖစ္သြားလဲ မသိဘူး။ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အေမ မ်က္ႏွာေျပးျမင္မိတယ္ ဗ်ာ။ အခုဓါတ္ပံုေလးက ခါတုိင္း ရေနက် ရသနဲ႕မတူဘူးဗ်ာ။ ကေလးေလးအေမရဲ႕ မ်က္ႏွာက အပူအပင္ေတြကို ခဏေမ႔ထားၿပီး သားေလးအတြက္ လူတကာကို ေအာက္က်ဳိ႕အသနားခံေနတာ စိတ္ထဲမွာ ဘယ္လုိႀကီးမွန္း မသိဘူးဗ်ာ။ စိတ္မေကာင္းဘူး။ အေမတုိင္းကေတာ့ သားသမီးကို ခ်စ္တဲ႔စိတ္နဲ႔ ဘယ္အခက္အခဲမဆုိ ရင္ဆုိင္ရဲတဲ႔ သတၱိရွိတာႀကီးပဲေနာ္။ ဒီဓါတ္ပံုကိုအရမ္း ၾကိဳက္တယ္ဗ်ာ။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္လည္း စိတ္ထဲမွာမထင္မွတ္ပဲ သတိရသြားတဲ႔ ေမေမကို အေမမ်ားေန႔ကို ႀကိဳဆုိရင္း ကန္ေတာ့လုိက္ပါတယ္ ခင္ဗ်ာ။
အစ္ကိုေရ အစ္ကိုလည္း ေကၽြးဖခင္ျဖစ္တဲ႔ ေဖေဖ။ ေမြးမိခင္ျဖစ္တဲ႔ ေမေမ နဲ႔ေနာင္ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ အတူတကြ ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ရႊင္ ေနႏုိင္ပါေစလုိ႔ ဆုေတာင္းရင္။ အေမမ်ားေန႔ကို ႀကိဳဆုိလုိက္ပါတယ္ ခင္ဗ်ာ။

Happy Mother Day!
M – Motivater
O – Only one
T – True love
H – Heartiest
E – Exceptional
R – Responsible.
Love ur Mother!

Pauk Si
May 8th, 2009

I got your given message with nice shot.
You really deserve with good comments more than I can mention it.
Thanks for your sharing of taken photos and nice expression as ever like this.

Keep it up, bro!
Wish you all the best!
Happy Mother Day…

MelodyMaung
May 8th, 2009

@ SuWei >> Thanks for ur thoughtful comment…

@ ZinMar >> Your comment makes me smile and appreciated…

@ PhoLa >> I can see your love towards MOM…

@ Pauk Si >> Your comment is heart melting, bro… Like it…

@ Melody Maung >> Happy Mother Day, Ma Mi. I am glad that you like this shot…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 9th, 2009

Above all comments!!! You are very good in taking street shots…

Myo Kyaw Htun
May 9th, 2009

@ Myo Kyaw Htun >> That poem also supports my shot a lot, bro…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 9th, 2009

the photo loads of mother’s pure love and good poem. Wishing u be warmed by mom’s love…

Ji Sandar
May 9th, 2009

@ Ji Sandar >> Thanks a lot for your comment and it was just a snapshot… daily life of someone who defines her DAY on the street…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 9th, 2009

nice capture but sad… i feel like she is controlled by somebody… so it’s sad.

ET
May 10th, 2009

@ ET >> Thanks a lot for your visit and comment, sis…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 10th, 2009

Happy belated mothers’ day, kokoe!
I can see the smile so innocent yet pitiful but her courage and love towards her child’s survivor or should I say future is what makes me fall for this. I wish I could be by my mom for such day. She sure was crying when I called her and when she got my card and letter. This shows I’m such a good writer :P you can hire me for love letters too LOL

Khaing Thant
May 10th, 2009

@ Khaing Thant >> Same to you, PT. You normally whine you mom like that, huh? I know.

Ye Lwin Oo
May 10th, 2009

love it.

PoePu
May 10th, 2009

@ Poe Pu >> Thanks a lot…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 11th, 2009

For your information, I do not whine to mommy on special days! You mean brother!!!!!

Khaing Thant
May 12th, 2009

@ Khaing Thant >> Sorry indeed, you whine sister…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 17th, 2009

i like this pic! =D

Yuzana
May 27th, 2009

@ Yuzana >> Thanks for your appreciation…

Ye Lwin Oo
May 28th, 2009

Nice photo, Ko Ye Lwin Oo…

Nyi Htoo
January 24th, 2010

@ Nyi Htoo >> Thanks a lot, bro…

Ye Lwin Oo
January 24th, 2010

Aww… I wish they could get a better life.

Htet T San
April 19th, 2010

@ Htet T San >> Thanks a lot for your comment… We see heaps of them along the streets of Bangkok…

Ye Lwin Oo
April 19th, 2010

အသက္၀င္တဲ႔ ဓါတ္ပုံဗ်ာ… ေကာင္းတယ္… အားေပးလ်က္ပါ။

နတ္သား၇၅
June 23rd, 2010

@ နတ္သား၇၅ >> ေက်းဇူး ဗ်ာ။ သြားရင္း လာရင္း ႀကံဳေတြ႕ ဆံုျဖစ္တာေလးေတြ မွတ္တမ္းတင္တဲ႔ သေဘာပါ။

Ye Lwin Oo
June 23rd, 2010

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