Jun 142012
What a hard work to enjoy a cup of tea. The woman of Munnar cut tea leaves on steepy hills for hours. Their rythm is frantic since they get paid by the numbers of bags they can fill during the day. Men are nowhere to be seen, or waiting by the road, as women also carry the bags back to the truck for loading. A gentleman's world.
Still, despite this difficult way of making a living, smiles are easy to come. Probably much easier than thousands kilometers away, in some fancy tea room for bored British ladies. (click on pictures for high res)
All pictures taken with Leica M9 and 35mm Lux Asph.
One of the best photo-stories !Bravo!
These photographs are gorgeous! And inspiring too.
Brilliant photographs Yanidel, as usual. Absolutely beautiful countryside.
In defence of men, well its the division of labour. Women work at the tea plantations, and men take the tea to the refining and packagin plants and then to the ports. It might give an impression that lads are just lazing around but that is not the case.
Hi Danish, sorry, I did not mean they are lazy. They just leave the hardest work to women ;) I am always shocked to see that most material handling on worksites is also performed by women carrying the loads on their head. Cheers.
Simply wonderful….
This is an amazing set of pictures to support a very interesting photo-story. Pic #4 is especially brilliant
Thanks Tony. Not always easy to do photo-stories in street photography since many images have no direct link. It worked here because of the obvious common theme. cheers.
Realmente maravillosas!! si como siempre,pero en esta ultima serie de fotos te has superado!!! los paisajes,los colores no se si es por la luz del lugar pero son bellisimos!!!me encantan estas fotos,no se si piensas editar algun libro de tus viajes, porque algunas de estas merecerian estar
Gracias Pilar. Estoy pensando en el libro pero no va a ser facil encontrar un tema, o sea algun enlace entre las fotos de tantos paises. Editar es sumamente dificil. Ya veremos cuando volvamos ;)
Awesome pics! So much of greenary spread all over!