SAINT ANTHONY CATHEDRAL

MESSAGE FROM THE PHOTOBLOGGER

I have spent my last days in Yangon with shooting those heritage buildings. Mostly, Cathedrals and rich architectural structures from post-war era. Those days are miserable for me. Shooting but then i am lost in mood. Weather is simply unpredictable. I hold camera, there it rained. I don’t know what to say. I did not want to leave Burma, Number (1) place for my CANDID shooting. I shoot almost everywhere in Yangon even at those restricted places like University of Yangon. I did sneak in and shoot in early morning.

4th July 2009, here I am in Singapore. Some of my fans expect Singapore photos here on my blog. I am sorry to tell you that I won’t have much photos taken in Singapore (except for those landmarks / special events related posts) here on YE LWIN OO . COM. Being a Burmese photoblogger, I am eager to decorate my blog with photos from Burma. That’s one of the reasons I kicked off Road to Bagan.

SHOOTING

It was a sunny day, a moment of Yangon’s afternoon. Me and my best friend, we were enjoying a tea break at our usual hang out place, SHWE KHA YARR GYI TEA SHOP of upper Pannsodann road. At a speedy glance, I saw this holy church rising across the road. I have decided to go in and shoot. Thanks the trustee members for their kind permission for photo shooting. It’s such a beautiful cathedral and yes it is among those Top 200 buildings on the Yangon City Development Committee’s Heritage List. Precise location of the cathedral is Upper Pannsodann Road, Kantawlay, Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma).

Credits: St.Anthony’s trustee members for their permission for my shooting.

A rare fine art shot of me and I have transformed as HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo. Yes, the grand Saint Anthony Cathedral of Yangon…

Photo Information
Camera – Nikon D90
Lens – SIGMA 10-20mm Wide Angle Aspherical
Aperture – f/5.6
Exposure Time – 1/125s
ISO Speed – 100
Focal Length – 10mm

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I am really inspired by these natural lighting arrangement of British Colonial Ruling era…

Photo Information
Camera – Nikon D90
Lens – SIGMA 10-20mm Wide Angle Aspherical
Aperture – f/5.6
Exposure Time – 1/13s
ISO Speed – 500
Focal Length – 12mm

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It was Saturday evening, but then I saw some worshipers. I don’t know much about those Christians’ customs but then I have only heard of Sunday Mass. Is there any Saturday Mass?

Photo Information
Camera – Nikon D90
Lens – SIGMA 10-20mm Wide Angle Aspherical
Aperture – f/5.6
Exposure Time – 1/10s
ISO Speed – 500
Focal Length – 10mm

THAN ZAW MYO

GOOD !
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@ THAN ZAW MYO >> Thanks a lot…
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Nice photo again. Let me use it again, bro…
Yes, there are Masses on everyday. From monday to saturday, there are daily Masses and only a few faithful go these days. There is a solemn Mass on Sundays, and almost all of the faithful go and worship and do activities sometimes.
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@ Wai Wai >> Sure, you can use if you think they are good enough to upload in your blog. I am not very familiar with thise Christian customs. But I love those architectural styles of post war era…
PYI SOE

ပန္းခ်ီကားေလး ၾကၫ္႔ရသလို ခံစားရပါတယ္။ really like the first 1…
Treasure

BEAUTIFUL!!!
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@ PYI SOE >> You sound romantic, bro… Lolz…

@ Treasure >> Appreciated for your comment, sis…
Ma Ma Lay

Nice capture!
May all the best things be around you forever, bro.
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@ Ma Ma Lay >> Thanks a lot and same to you, A Ma…
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Fantastic shots!!! Like the first one not having too much distortion is great!
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@ Myo Kyaw Htun >> Thanks, bro. When I was shooting these photos, I was still not very familiar with my Wide Lens and very hard for me to control distortion…
Pon Gyi

COOL man!!! luv the very 1st one sooo much… u really did spend ur last days in ygn usefully… ;D
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@ Pon Gyi >> Thanks, sis… Yes, those are miserable days for me though…
Saw Yu

These amazingly fantastic photos are taken in Yangon?? truly stunning shots bro ..
the first one is the best… keep it up…
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@ Saw Yu >> Yes, I made these shots in Yangon. Now preparing some Singapore shots since our Dad wanna see some Singapore photos here. ;)
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first photo is inspired one bro… I saw you at Oriental house restaurant…
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@ PhoLa >> Oh really? You’re Oakkar’s friend?
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အကို အေပၚဆံုးပံုက အရမ္းေကာင္းပါတယ္ ၊ ကၽြန္ေတာ္အရင္ပို႔စ္မွာ ေရွးေဟာင္း အေဆာက္အဦနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ေရးခဲ႔တဲ႔ comment က ဘာကိုမွ ရည္ရြယ္ေရးခဲ႔ျခင္း မဟုတ္ပါဘူး ၊ အေႏွာက္အယွက္ျဖစ္ခဲ႔ရင္ ခြင္႔လႊတ္ပါ ၊ အကို႔ရဲ႕ စိတ္ကူး ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ ၊ အကို႔ရဲ႕ ႀကိဳးစားရိုက္ကူးမႈကို အကိုနဲ႔ ထပ္တူ ၾကည္းႏူးခံစားခ်င္တဲ႔ စိတ္ကူးဘဲ ရိွပါတယ္ ၊ ေခါင္းေလာင္း ထမ္းေနတဲ႔ရုပ္ထု ေရွ႕လူဖင္ကို ရိုက္ေနတဲ႔ပံု မိုက္တယ္ ၊ ခင္မင္စြာျဖင္႔
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@ ေမာင္ေမာင္ >> Thanks for your visit and comment…
Soe Theingi Htwe

I met ur website by chance. After viewing all ur photos, I’m eager to say something like “Very Artistic”.
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@ Soe Theingi Htwe >> Thanks a lot for your visit and hope for future visits here…
Ye Thura Soe

nice shots. excellence!
Wynn Thein

I like all… Wide Lens…
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@ Ye Thura Soe >> Thanks a lot, bro. I am just an amateur…

@ Wynn Thein >> Yes, bro. You remember that day, huh? We went into church and shoot.
Su Hnin

I really didn’t know that we have this beautiful church in Yangon… i first thought that it is in Singapore… :D
Anyway, first one is really really nice shot!!!
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@ Su Hnin >> I bet you love the colorful sky on #1… Thanks for your supports and comments, sis…
Su Hnin

Yea bro… i really love the colorful sky of all photos…
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@ Su Hnin >> Yes, i was lucky that the sky was cloudy during my shooting…
Pauline

Yea, bro… There is Saturday evening mass for those who can’t make it on Sunday. We call it “Sunset Mass” :) Your pics are great… I love them…
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@ Pauline >> Thanks for your words, sis. Now I have come to know a custom of Christianity… Visit here when you free. I will try to upload more pics here…
Joe

Ko Ye Lwin Oo. I have many happy memories of that school yard (St. Anthony Church and School yard used to be one and the same, no wire fence yet then.) It brings back memories, used to play there with friends day in day out. I too have photos of the School and church from my recent trips but I like the atmosphere in this one best.
BTW, my dad (deceased for some time now) is also from Dawai. He and a friend founded Shwe Wai Thiri (old movie theater in Dawai and the motion picture production, produced Pho Pyone Cho and few other films, located in Pan Soe Dan Road).
Where do you live these days?
Joe

Oh… you are in Singapore. Didn’t complete my reading. My bad!
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@ Joe >> Thanks for your visit and comment. I really like the atmosphere of the compound. It’s really clean and well managed. Oh, your Dad is from Dawei? My grandpa is also a share-holder of Shwe Wei Thiri Cinema. I bet you might know him. Grandpa’s name is U Myat Sein and my dad’s name is Dr.Yu Kyi. Yes, I am currently in Singapore…
Joe

Ko Ye Lwin Oo, very small world indeed. :) U Toe Yin is my dad. Please shoot me an email. I would love to chat with you more about Dawai situation. I believe you can see my email addr.
Joe

:D Never mind, you already sent me a mail. I hate to shout personal stuff on a public blog, I will respond more privately then. Cheers!
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@ Joe >> You can write me personal mails, bro. Dawei is as usual. No significant changes so far… :) And the Maung Ma Gan beach is still untouched!!!
Credo

You made wonderful photos… but u made a wrong word, it is Saint Anthony’s Church, not Saint Anthony’s Cathedral.
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@ Credo >> Sorry. I thought it was Cathedral…
John Smith Than Zaw

Very nice!
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@ John Smith Than Zaw >> Thanks…
Victor Geach

I at tended St Anthoney’s school in the 1950′s after a bad time at St Pauls boy’s school Rangoon.I would like to here from other students from that period.
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@ Victor Geach >> Thanking you for your visit and kind comment…
Miss Evelyn

NICE TO MEET YOU BRO, VERY NICE PICS OF CATHOLIC CHURCH OF YANGON, SO ADORABLE TEMPLE
GOD BLESS TO YOU BRO
Evelyn

NICE TO MEET YOU BRO, VERY NICE PICS OF CATHOLIC CHURCH OF YANGON, SO ADORABLE TEMPLE
GOD BLESS TO YOU BRO
MISS Evelyn

pls try best to ST MARY”S CATHEDRAL CHURCH PICS TOO BRO