Hanoi viewed through Leica M

What great photos guys! I really enjoyed them. I always enjoy seeing the photos in this thread, but the last two pages are really neat. Brings back memories for sure.

Thanks all.
 
Tim Zhou, I really enjoy your photos. Especially the people living near the railroad tracks. Interesting look at how people are living, and I really love the tonality. keep the photos coming.

Just curious if there are still itinerate barbers still in Vietnam. They used to travel by motorcycle or bicycle with hand powered tools. They also had a tool with a long thin rod and a thin round piece of metal. They could clean a person's ears with it. Many GIs got their hair cut by those barbers.
 
oftheherd said:
Tim Zhou, I really enjoy your photos. Especially the people living near the railroad tracks. Interesting look at how people are living, and I really love the tonality. keep the photos coming.

Just curious if there are still itinerate barbers still in Vietnam. They used to travel by motorcycle or bicycle with hand powered tools. They also had a tool with a long thin rod and a thin round piece of metal. They could clean a person's ears with it. Many GIs got their hair cut by those barbers.
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I've posted a thread about railway neighbourhood here, check it out.
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111503

Those barbers are no longer available, instead of this below, simple stall outdoor:

the barber in his shop by Trung Nguyen, on Flickr
 
oftheherd said:
Tim Zhou, I really enjoy your photos. Especially the people living near the railroad tracks. Interesting look at how people are living, and I really love the tonality. keep the photos coming.
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Thanks for your comments. Few more from that area.
The railway tracks slowly come down to the ground level. People get access to shops and houses by the tracks
DSC00089-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr

It feels just like a street here
DSC00091-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr

As Trung pointed out in his post, residents in this area live in cramped space
DSC00094-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr

My goal that day (Christmas Day, 2016) was to walk towards Long Bien Bridge on the tracks, but I had to give up due to safety reason (didn't want to appear on the news next day that a foreign tourist killed himself...).
DSC00149-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr
 
Sapa
A local orchid farm is on the right hand corner, a water buffalo with a wooden bell on its neck is walking with its calf towards the village. Domestic animals in Sapa regions all seem very happy
DSC00215-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr

Terraced rice fields in Sapa
DSC00326-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr

Children go back to village after school
DSC00220-Edit-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr

A local Hmong lady, Ze, also my hiking guide
DSC00213-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr
 
Thank you Tim Zhou for your contributions in this thread, fantacstic photos that some of which me as local never witness before, for instance this below.
And yes, a meet up in Hanoi would be great next time you are here.

DSC00300-Edit by T Zhou, on Flickr
 
Recently I came across some old photos I had taken in Vietnam when I was there from 1969 to 1972. Some are hardly worth showing as they were either very badly exposed or were damaged in surviving a house fire. But with kiemchacsu's indulgence for what it is worth:

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I believe this was a village near Bong Son, on the coast above Quin Nhon. That was when I was in the 173rd Airborne Bde. I have no idea what the sign says.

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This is a photo of me on Quang Tri Combat base. Those who recognize such things will realize I am wearing the unit patch of the 1st Brigade (Mech) of the 5th Division. Model airplane building has always been a thing I liked. We didn't spend 24 hrs a day in combat, for a year. In fact, my job hardly ever landed me where there was shooting going on. We did occasionally get 120mm rocket fire just to keep us on our toes.

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This and the photo above are examples of poor exposure or fire damage, or both. It depicts girls who wish to sell beer and/or soda. If you had known them a long time, I am told some (but not most) might sell marijuana. Prostitution existed but you normally had to go to a special area or house to engage in that. This girls only wanted to sell beer and soda. They were usually very friendly, but in a nice way.

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This I think was shortly after Tet of 68 (The Tet) when we convoyed from I think Pleiku to Bong Son. We came on this shortly after observing a lot of thick black smoke ahead of us. Looks like it was a pretty stiff fire fight. It may have been ARVN screening the road ahead of us. I never heard.

If/when I get a chance to scan some that are better to look at, I will post them here if kiemchacsu doesn't mind.

Edit: most photos before my arrival at Quang Tri would have been with a Welta Welti and all above are Kodachrome.
 
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