Fairy in Canyon and on the Beach in Vietnam

Fairy in Canyon and on the Beach in Vietnam

Walking in Beauty with Beautiful People in Beautiful Places

© by Richard D. Fisher

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We assigned our fashion and travel photography team to do a fashion photo shoot in Fairy Canyon and on the beach in Mui Ne Vietnam. Today more and more Vietnam young people have the money to go and enjoy fashion and adventure travel to in interesting all over Vietnam and places like 

Mui Ne Fairy Canyon and on the beach.

Bạn thích du lịch và khám phá những điều mới lạ? Bạn muốn trông thật thời trang, phong cách hoặc "mới, độc, lạ" khi đi du lịch???  Hãy cùng trải nghiệm thú vị du lịch Mũi Né - Phan thiết qua bộ ảnh thời trang và hóa trang của chúng tôi nhé!!!

 Fairy Falls Fashion Color Gecko Vietnam.

Hóa trang thành một nàng tiên tại Suối tiên- Mũi Né.

Fairy Canyon Hiking with Umbrella Girl in Vietnam.

Thời trang cosplay mới lạ với chiếc dù nhỏ xinh.

Perfect Fairy at Fairy Waterfalls Canyon in Vietnam. Creative Photography?

Chút huyền bí nơi thác nước bên trong Suối tiên.

Beautiful Fairy Umbrella Girl Fairy Canyon Mui Ne, Vietnam.

Trải nghiệm cảm giác du lịch mới lạ khi hóa trang cosplay.

Fairy Climbing Adventure in Fairy Canyon Vietnam.

Chinh phục những mỏm đá kì vĩ và tạo dáng thú vị, tại sao không???

 Fairy Walking Fairy Canyon Vietnam
Dạo chơi cùng những thiên thần fairy international

 

Fairy Fashion model on beach at sunset in Vietnam. Creative fashion photography?

Hoàng hôn biển nhẹ nhàng bên sóng nước

​  Fashion Dress and Sea Clouds Vietnam sea spray stars at sunset. Mui Ne Beach Vietnam.

Tạo dáng thật phong cách bên bờ biển để có một bộ ảnh thời trang kỷ niệm "độc, lạ" nhé!!!

Perfect Fairy Fashion Face Vietnam?

Selfie chút nào!!!

 

Travel Fashion Vietnam Jungle, now change of times for the Vietnam nation.

 Một cánh rừng ven biển Mũi Né, kì bí chưa???

​Fairy Canyon Fairy Vietnam Fashion Color Gecko.

Du lịch để trải nghiệm những điều mới lạ 100% từ trong ra ngoài cùng thời trang cosplay, hay chỉ cần biến hóa chút đỉnh với những tạo dáng mới lạ bên ống kính để có những kỷ niệm thật đáng nhớ tại Mũi Né- Phan Thiết nhé!!!

Psychedelic Rainbow Flower Girls

Psychedelic Rainbow Flower Girls

© by Richard Fisher

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Here in the central highlands of Vietnam is a place, actually Dalat a small city, where the war 

never really took place. It was a retreat for the Vietnamese, French and American so called 'elite' in 

all time periods of the 20th century. 

Walking around the streets one can often be hailed with,

"Good Morning Vietnam",  from the motorcycle taxies of the Easy Rider Club looking for customers.

Please enjoy a totally unique vision of then and now 

"Good Morning Vietnam" and "Easy Rider." As reflected by Dennis Hopper and Robbin Williams in their roles in . "Good Morning Vietnam" and "Easy Rider", two icons of a generation now almost past.

Fairy Rainbow Girl. Icon of peace and beauty.

 Army DJ Adrian Cronauer was deployed to Vietnam to host a morning radio program which often played the psychedelic  music and mood of the times. Cronauer's comedic riffs were so popular with the troops as well as the locals, it set the mood for this town of Dalat Vietnam. Cronauer is played in the movie by the incomparable Robbin Williams in the movie of the same name 

"Good Morning Vietnam." 

There is the "Original" Easy Rider Club, the "Authentic" Easy Rider Club, the "New" Easy Rider Club now and so on. One can take their pick when choosing a motorcycle taxi. They do motorcycle rides

all over the Central Highlands of Vietnam as day as well as multi day trips.

Psychedelic  Fashion Cosplay.  All locally hand sewn fashion clothing.

I was approached by someone who said they worked in the Delta in the late 1960's and wanted to use my Psychedelic  Cosplay Girl photographs in his book about his experience there in the Delta. 

I declined, as my work is original to my time period here in the central highlands now, and these young women know nothing of the war.  

It is a new time, a new generation, a new beauty and 

a new style. In my creative mind there are still some colorful threads of the psychedelic 

mind set of my youthful time in life.  

Nga Psychedelic Fashion Girl in a new time of cosmic fairy's.

Nga Psychedelic Fashion Girl goes to work as a model.

The Eagles playing "Hotel California" alongside Texas Elvis on the Hill with a rather fantastic fashion girl.

It was as real as it was unbelievable.

Fun  and food at Elvis on the Hill night club.

Texas  Elvis on the Hill with fashion model.

Blue Wave Fairy Rainbow Girl.

Supermodel Psychedelic Fashion Girl Vietnam.

Fashion Girl with Psychedelic Serpents.

Butterfly Tatoo Rong Con Model.

Psychedelic Supermodel Rainbow Vietnam. Out of this world.

Psychedelic Fashion Girl #2.

Psychedelic Rainbow Cloud Girl.

Sad Little Girl Graphic. She never smiles.

 Sunshine Girl and Sad Little Girl models.

Star Burst explosion.

Mind Altering Rainbow Flower Girl.

Purple peacock supermodel psychedelically entranced.

Blue fairy Rainbowl Girl. Makes one come alive!

Artist viewpoint Fashion Girl in vision.

Sunburst psychedelic supermodel Vietnam.

Transgender Friendship Bridge Vang Vieng Laos

Transgender Friendship Bridge Vang Vieng Laos 

© by Richard Fisher

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 Transgender friendships in so many unimagined and surprising ways in Laos. 

Opening a whole new doorway into the human condition and a deeply personal level.

A profound level of love and respect never imagined before starting in Laos.

One of the most beautiful evenings in my entire life Vang Vieng. 

We did not know if "she" was a girl or a boy but it did not matter.

"She" was just starting her transgender life transition.

Walking in beauty with Beautiful People in Beautiful Places.

I was out by the bridge photographing two lovely tourist on the bridge when the ballon floated over head. In Vang Vieng in the wintertime the breeze blows gently up the river each afternoon just before sunset when several hot air balloons usually make the scenic tour over the town....several boats were tethered to the bridge and a bicycle crossed at  that moment as well.  I was visiting Vang Vieng Laos with my Chinese girlfriend Summer, and we were "friended" by Pan.

Inside the Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair cover story 

Walking in beauty with beautiful people in beautiful places Ideal fulfilled!

A Honored Third Gender - Transgender photo documentary and heart felt personal story from Laos. 

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At lasts, since The Caitlyn Jenner transgender story broke in Vanity Fair in the spring of 2015 I felt comfortable in writing and publishing photography and home stay story that I had the blessing  and  pleasure to experience with my Transgender friend Pan on an island in a large lake in southern Laos in  July 2012.  I did not feel comfortable publishing it before the Caitlyn story broke worldwide in Vanity Fair, as I had no idea what transgender was exactly and I did not know how I personally and others felt about it as topic for a photographic documentary and story. I did know that Pan was just incredibly person and very enjoyed her company and felt great pleasure in photographing her all around the beautiful countryside of south-central Laos. They say the more beautiful the girls are the more she likes to be photographed, which was dramatically true in Pan's case. "She" was a fully professional fashion lady model in natural, rural as well social settings.

Transgender Transwoman Supermodel at Nam Ngum Lake southern Laos.

Pan Transwoman Transgender Supermodel Laos​ with documentary art photographer writer 

Richard D. Fisher  July, 2012

Home Stay visits are one of the tourism activities in remote canyon and mountain areas in south-central Laos. In this case I was invited to do a Home Stay and Temple Offering journey to a remote island in the middle of the largest lake in Laos, the Nam Ngum Lake. The tradition is that children who are of working age take home some gifts for their parents and siblings and gifts for the home village temple. In this case I was going home with with a very beautiful transgender young woman "Pan" who I knew very little about to her beloved Laotian family, a very new type of adventure. 

It was very wonderful to see every one dressed in their most lovely traditional clothing, traveling home, and the deep emotions of visiting with their families, city to countryside.

Laos Ladyboy Transwoman Supermodel. "She" was actually quiet a strong and capable person but 

moved like a woman naturally. "She"  was being observed by me, her new friend and also

her home villagers who she had known all of her life. I was perhaps the first foreigner

they had ever seen, certainly with Pan.

​Transwoman Laos Village Island home in Nam Ngum lake.

Laos Lady Family​ and Home. 

"She" said she had grown up a girl along side the other girls and had not really thought about her gender affiliation until she reached puberty. She played girl games with the girls in her home and school.  Only when she moved to nearby Vientianen, the capital of the country, did she feel that the "adjustments" she faced were a difficult challenge. It was rather a crisis as she became know as a "lady boy" during her late teen years.

​Transgender in Laos, such a beautiful person.

​Friends Ladyboy Transwoman Laos walking to the temple to make offerings.

​Ladyboy Transwoman Village path in Laos.

Boun Awk Phansa is the last day of the Buddhist lent.

On the first day at dawn, donations and offerings are made at temples around the country; in the evening, candlelight processions are held around the temples and it is the celebration of lai heua fai or Loi ka thong, when everyone sends small lighted ‘boats’ made of banana stems or banana leaves decorated with candles and flowers down the rivers.

These are said to pay respect to the Buddha and to thank the mother of rivers for providing water for our lives. Some believe that the lai heua fai procession is an act to pay respect to nagas that lives in the rivers, while others send the lighted boats down the river to ask for blessing and to float bad luck of the past year away enabling the good luck to flow in. Most towns with a river bank nearby will engage in this lovely ceremony. In bigger towns there are also processions of lighted boats, and the ceremony is more popular especially among young romantic couples. Villagers who live far from rivers set up model boats (made of banana stems) decorated with flowers and candlelight, while others simply light up some candles in front of their houses and do their little prayer wishing for good luck. This colorful rituals have been carried on by Lao people for thousands of years.

Traditionally a Heua Fai like this is made at every temple to mark the end of Buddhist lent - Boun Awk Phansa

In addition, the evening before the boat race is the day the celebrated Naga fireballs are supposed to appear. TheNaga fireballs are a phenomenon peculiar to the Mekong. The Naga is a mythical water dragon believed to live in the Mekong and on the night of 15^th day of 11^th month in the Lao lunar calendar at the end of Buddhist Lent he is supposed to shoot up pink-red fireballs to signify the occasion. Some believe, while others doubt they are real. Still today there is a festival surrounding this time and certain areas of both the Thai and Lao sides of the river are packed out with willing sightseers, who also take the time to enjoy the multitude of food and drink stands which spring up to cater for them during the festival.

I didn't see any of that when I was there but then probably I missed a lot of local culture due to lack of cultural experience and insight.

​The normal temple offerings in small villages in Laos.

​Laos Temple Lady. Her heart was really into it.

​Lady at Laos Temple.

​Laos Lady. As a family they all loved and respected each other so much.

Another ​Laos island village  in the Nam Ngum Lake.

The photograph below taken February, 2012 to April, 2015.

 Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang, Laos.

I was out by the bridge photographing two lovely tourist on the bridge when the ballon floated over head. In Vang Vieng in the wintertime the breeze blows gently up the river each afternoon just before sunset when several hot air balloons usually make the scenic tour over the town....several boats were tethered to the bridge and a bicycle crossed at  that moment as well.  I was visiting Vang Vieng Laos with my Chinese girlfriend and we were "friended" by Pan. 

At the time Summer and I occasionally debated if Pan was a boy or a girl. As it turns out years later he was in transition for male to female during those years 2010-2014. We had not idea what that was at the time but since then we have become educated on the issues, challenges joys and physical discomfort to becoming transgender in Laos and indeed the world. In fact we had never heard the word "transgender" and had no idea what that was. We had just discovered the word "ladyboy"  but had no idea what that was exactly either. In Thailand we had gone to a "Ladyboy" or  "Kathoey or Katoy"  floor show and found it exiting, interesting and colorful but did not know how we felt on a personal level. Laos and Thailand goes to extraordinary lengths to accommodate its transgendered kathoey. Knowing Pan, as a very personal friend, she left us with a good impression for a good start, but it was some years before we had any specific feeling on the subject. The  Caitlyn Jenner transgender story helped a lot.

I was relating to Pan as an outdoor model and benefited and enjoyed that relationship more than I can say.

​Transgender Umbrella Model in Laos.

​Beautiful Transwoman Sexy Transgender. She really knew how to pose. Big beautiful eyes, straight 

teeth, lovely lips. She knew how to make up and she made a effort which makes a big difference

in photography.

​Pan Transwoman Transgender Vang Vieng, Laos

​Laos Lips. She can model the sexy

smile better than anyone I ever

photographed. 

​Transwoman Pan in Laos. She brought her own colored contact lenses.

Grown proud and beautiful now ​Transgender Beauty. When I knew her she was exactly what I admired
as a photography model and I encouraged her to stay that way. She wanted to make the full transition and
from these photographs she sent me a few years later it looks like she has. A poised beautiful
woman.