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Pang Klang – Lisu People of Pang Klang

Hans Mast — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:00:56 +0000

Here are some pictures of the native Lisu people of Pang Klang, a Lisu village in Northern Thailand where Craig and Rachel, a couple from our church are living. (I previously posted this and this and this from their village.)

A neighbor and her kids

Giving sister a bath

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Pang Klang – Misc

Hans Mast — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:00:41 +0000

Here are various pictures from Pang Klang, a Lisu village in Northern Thailand where Craig and Rachel, a couple from our church are living. (I previously posted this and this from their village.)

Enjoying treasures from the U.S.!

Craig demonstrating how he teaches English in the “town hall”

Rosene’s darling little munchkin

Neighbors’ house

Josh explaining with his signature expressiveness

Cutting pineapple

Contemplatively surveying the village from his doorway

Visiting Craig and Rachel’s first home in Pang Klang

Standing in front of their starter castle

Craig and Rachel standing in front of their current home in the setting sun

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Pang Klang – Cooking

Hans Mast — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:22:14 +0000

Here are some more pictures from Pang Klang, the Lisu village in Northern Thailand where Craig and Rachel are living as workers. (I previously posted a picture of Pang Klang’s shaman.)

The reason there’s a whole post on cooking pictures is because that comprises a large part of Craig & Rachel’s day. Cooking over a cook fire takes just a bit longer than popping something in the microwave!

Picking some food from the garden for lunch

Making toast over the fire!

Melting and buttering toast

Starting a cook fire

Splitting wood for the fire with a machete-like knife

The finished product!

Sitting down to eat

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Lisu Shaman in Northern Thailand

Hans Mast — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:52:01 +0000

The shaman of Pang Klang, the Lisu village in Northern Thailand where Craig and Rachel (a couple from our church) are living

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Harvest Sunset

Hans Mast — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:16:20 +0000

It’s harvest time in Kansas. As I drive home in the dark, I see lots of lights moving out in the field. As I drive to work, it takes a bit longer because I often get stuck behind farm equipment, like this morning with the combine that was so wide it took up both lanes of the highway bridge over 61. Looking out the windows at work, there’s constantly combines, tractors, hay rakes, and grain trucks driving by.

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Norman & Edith Engagement Pictures

Hans Mast — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:17:06 +0000

Here’s my first engagement shoot. Heidi was along to direct the poses. She was, of course, invaluable.

I can’t wait to do their wedding!

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Hebron: Cave of the Patriarchs, Machpelah, Mosque of Abraham

Hans Mast — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:30:51 +0000

My buddy Ben whom I was hanging out with for the day and a Bethlehem taxi driver who rapidly became our buddy as well. The chicken and bread was excellent! My stomach is growling for it right now…

The Ibrahimi Mosque, or Mosque of Abraham, which is located atop The Cave of the Patriarchs, or in Biblical terms The Cave of Machpelah which Abraham purchased from the Hittites as a burial ground.

Wikipedia summarizes well the Cave/Mosque’s current status:

After the Six Day War, the area came under the control of Israel, and the restriction limiting Jews to the 7th step was lifted. In 1994 Baruch Goldstein took an assault rifle into the enclosure and killed 29 Palestinian Muslims at prayer, as well as injuring 125 others, before being bludgeoned to death by survivors. The resulting riots left an additional 26 Palestinians and 9 Israelis dead, and the incident provoked national and international condemnation of Goldstein’s actions.

The increased sensitivity of the site meant that in 1995 the Wye River Accords, part of the Arab-Israeli peace process, included a temporary status agreement for the site, restricting access for both Jews and Muslims. As part of this agreement, the waqf—a traditional “trust” holding land for Islamic religious purposes—controls 81% of the building. This includes the whole of the southeastern section, which lies above the only known entrance to the caves, and possibly over the entirety of the caves themselves. In consequence, Jews are not permitted to visit the Cenotaphs of Isaac or Rebekah, which lie entirely within the southeastern section, except for 10 days a year which hold special significance in Judaism. One of these days is the Shabbat of Chayei Sarah, when the Jews read the Torah portion concerning the death of Abraham and Sarah, and that concerning the purchase by Abraham of the land in which the caves are situated.

The Israeli authorities do not allow Jewish religious authorities the right to maintain the site, and only allow the waqf to do so. Tourists are permitted to enter the site. Security at the site has increased since the Intifada, and the Israel Defense Forces surround the site with soldiers, and control access to the shrines.

A view from the top of the steps on the Jewish side

Praying, reading Scripture
(notice this is a zoomed shot of the last pic)

I was having trouble deciding how I wanted to interpret the above image. I have two more versions here and

here. Tell me which you like best and what you like and don’t like about the various ones.

An Orthodox Jewish lady reading the Scriptures. Notice the Arabic script on the mosque walls.

A wider angle view of the outside. Unfortunately, the IDF soldiers wouldn’t let us go to the Arab/Muslim side, though we tried. So we had to stay on the Jewish side.

The shuttered souk (marketplace)

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Bethlehem: Church of Nativity

Hans Mast — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:14:47 +0000

Wikipedia:

The Church of the Nativity (Arabic: كنيسة المهد‎) in Bethlehem is one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world. The structure is built over the cave that tradition marks as the birthplace of Christ, and it is considered sacred by followers of both Christianity and Islam (see Jesus in Islam).

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Laos – Pakse Market, Temple

Hans Mast — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:43:55 +0000

Meat for sale

Peppers

Eggs

Mushrooms

Rice

Brothers

Meat on a stick

Temple

Monk behind bars

Golden rays of evening sunlight hit the temple

Mekong, palm trees, one of my first HDRs

Chatting with the monks

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Laos – Pakse

Hans Mast — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:01:54 +0000

Yawning in the cold, pale Laos morning after an all-night bus ride.

Cold morning

Cold sunrise

The best restaurant in Pakse and its friendly proprietor

Indian food is the best in the world and this place was no exception

Cheesing with my front and rear backpacks

Making goggles at the camera

A group of school kids

Boating on the Mekong

Sunset, Mekong, Mountains

Supper with lots of legs

…lots of legs

Reading stories to pass the time

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Laos – Trip from Chiang Mai to Vientiene

Hans Mast — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:39:27 +0000

I’m finally going to post some Laos pictures from over a year ago. About time, eh?

Bowing down to a monk, asking for a blessing

Bike vendor

Long bus layover after an overnight bus ride = tired and sleepy

Craigly taking a large, ravenous bite of noodles in a cardboard cup

Craig sitting in the seat of the monks–these rear seats (we later found out) are reserved for the monks so that they sit higher than everyone else

Maria taking bus ride time to write

Craig and his monk buddy who was probably somewhat peeved that someone was sitting level with him, but was too polite to say anything

Katrina peeking

Tuk-tuk ride

Tuk-tuk

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Spectacular Wildfire Pictures from California

Hans Mast — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:33:54 +0000

I’m thinking of Californians (especially the Witmer family in LA) during these wildfires (and thanking God that there are no trees to burn in KS). The Big Picture has some spectacular photos of the fires.Similar Posts:

Stunning pictures of Bhutan’s coronation of new King

Hans Mast — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:12:14 +0000

As usual, the awesome The Big Picture blog over at the Boston Herald has some stunning pictures, this time of the coronation of Bhutan’s new 28-year-old king.Similar Posts:

Europe Day 11 – Switzerland Day 4 – Cookie factory, Fankhauser Anabaptist hideout, Cowbell store, and Muri farm

Hans Mast — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:00:12 +0000

One of the hundreds of varieties of delicious cookies at the cookie factory

Sampling and thoughtfully examining

Benji approves of the cookie in question

Hiking up to the Fankhauser Anabaptist hiding place

The trap door that led to the hideout behind a false wall

This picture was taken by Dietrich as I was teaching him about aperture and depth of field

This and the next four pictures were taken by Dietrich with my camera

A group of us sitting on the Fankhauser steps chatting: Jan and I, three of the Amish girls, three of the Horning girls, and two of the Beachy girls

Jan and Frieda (notice Dietrich using depth of focus/field)

Regina, who loves to tease Dietrich

Charlene

This is again the beginning of the pictures I took; this is at the cow bell store

Guess what flash arrangement I used to take this picture

Deciding between two goat bells

If this’d be on the front porch of a general store, it would be just perfect

Lorne searching out his Kuepfer forebears

Back at the Muri farm, the view from the top of the hill

Out across the fields

Watching the cows and the sunset

The cow and Mike

A mutually amusing encounter

Cow, grass, barn, sky

Mom praising the Lord Sound of Music-style

An intense game of foosball

Celebration or anguish: I’m unsure of which, but they are certainly mirrored in Dietrich and Jan’s expressions

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Europe Day 11 – Switzerland Day 4 – Emmentaler Cheese factory, Haslebacher house, Trachselwald Castle

Hans Mast — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:41:41 +0000

Listening to how cheese is made at a famous Emmentaler cheese factory

Great vats of cheese

Quite the cheesy display

The small wooden house where the factory had its beginning and a big vat of cheese over an open fire the way they used to do it

Flower, bug

Lorene taking a drink from the fountain

Mike, trying to not get his beard too wet (with his wife Lorene in the background)

Lorne getting his beard quite wet

Dietrich taking a drink and dunking his name tag

A delightful expression!

“Ludwig” and Jan getting a drink; if you notice in the bottom left a spray of water which is Benji-generated which predicated the following pictures

Jan first threatened to spray Benji with water from his mouth, but then tried to…

…throw him in the water trough.

Our elders enjoying taking pictures as the Hans Haslebacher house

Our good buddy Jan

The three Hans’s: Jan, Hans Mast, and Hans Haslebacher

Swiss countryside

Ascending the steps of Trachselwald castle where Anabaptists were held as prisoners

The most recent Anbaptist in chains

Looking out the Trachselwald window

A tower of Schloss Trachselwald

Skipping down the hill

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