Every January, a festival is held to raise money for the upkeep of Bagan’s thousand-year-old Ananda temple. A tent city of stalls and shops surrounds the temple. Among the participants is this family who sells housewares. In itself, a picture of a housewares stall is hardly a candidate to produce an expressive travel picture. But when I saw three heads incongruously sticking up amidst the mass of containers, I knew I had an incongruous image in terms of abstraction, scale, age, and appearance. The placement of the sales counter in the middle of the display virtually drowns the salespeople in a sea of silver. Only their heads are visible. And one of those heads is that of a very happy young child. Both the child and his mother cover their faces in Thanaka, the yellow skin paste that is unique to Burma – a final incongruity that relates this picture to its location.