Neil Meyerhoff

The monks in Luang Prabang, Laos are very colorful in their saffron and red colored robes. There is no significance to the color of the robes. We think these monks lead a very ascetic life, but the monk on the left was smoking a moment before I took the photograph with my Hasselblad X-pan. I wanted him with the cigarette in his hand, but as soon as I lifted the camera to my eye, he threw the cigarette down!