Hawkins Photo Alchemy

Photography by Joseph B Hawkins, Jr.

"Alchemy" - A Power or Process of Transforming Something Common Into Something Special

A few hours in the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, also known in English as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda in Rangoon Myanmar, was not near enough to capture the splendor and grader of the multilevel, multi-structure Pagoda. I was able to walk around and photograph at dusk after a rainy day in Rangoon. It was very difficult to get photos without a lot of people. Some of this gallery have had the people cloned out using Photoshop. Details of the pagoda are nicely spelled out on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda.

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