Water Puppet (Hanoi, Vietnam)

What is this puppets doing in the water? Excellent shot!!

performance is a traditional cultural performance unique to Hanoi. The performers stand in waist deep water, operating the puppet behind the curtains agilely. It was said that these wooden puppets must be carved by the puppetter themselves , and not bought, for the puppets to be able to work. A very interesting performance. Hope you enjoy the seris of puppet performance animation that I made for you.

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Process

behind the curtain.

A traditinal cultural performance unique toHanoi, Vietnam. If you

are interested, pls click image to see a series of animation of the

performance. Thanks for feedback & comments.

nicely captured. nice shots you have here. i have read about this water puppet and finally managed to see them in details. thank you for sharing.

Excellent work Cherlyn,intersting original image,best regards

 

Shuki

Wow, what an interesting image, and I have never seen anything like this before, thanks for sharing! Great job of capturing it for those of us who never get to see these performances! (Well, maybe some day I'll get to see something like this. ;)

i've never seen anything like this before! stunning.

a beautiful water puppet show presentation...thanks Cherlyn for sharing...

 

rabinder

Cherlyn; Thanks for a peek into your ever inspiring world. ~charlene

Cherlyn, interesting presentation of a cultural tradition. The sequence of images is well done and a good information source.Interesting is the fact that it is done in water? very unusual Thanks Pnina

Great DOF and sharpness my friend...

Thanks for taking us to a beautiful new world,Cherlyn. Very good exposure,light and composition.

Very interesting & lovely capture, I have never seen these before, good contrast & details, nice colors & reflection, and thanks for showing, Cherlyn!!! Best regards.

Excellent exposure,light and composition..... interesting presentation of art of water puppertry..

 

Cherlyn, I read somewhere, That NO trip to Hanoi is complete without a bowl of steaming pho from a street-side noodle stall. This classic of Vietnamese cuisine has been called the premier noodle soup on the planet.How true .....

 

~Regards~Satya~

I had never seen or heard about water puppets!! Very nice and interesting. Thanks for sharing.

 

Chitra

Neat color light and composition!

of course I would never miss the taste of PHO in Hanoi. In fact we tasted PHO is all the cities that we visit but Hanoi's the best, the texture smooth & delicious & goes so well with either beef, chicken or pork. Read somewhere that this PHO made by Hanoi's women builds a nation, well, some truth in it I guess as it is so widely eaten throughout Vietnam & overseas, even in Singapore.

Cool shot Cherlyn. The reflection is a really nice touch. Regards, Kelvin.

I am as impressed by your pictures as I am by the puppets. Nice presentation!

I knew it was from Hanoi daer Cherlyn :):) I saw it also when I was in Hanoi :)

 

Thank you for sharing!

Biliana

Extraordinary! I wonder how many other cultural traditions involve standing waist deep in water? (Can you count surfing as a cultural tradition - possibly not!) Good reflections and I like the repetition of the array of puppets.

Nice Cherlyn, did you go to Halong Bay? The mountains are like those from Gweilin in China.