Despite no strong tourism industry like Thailand, Vietnam is also home to a large number of tourists every year. Hence, there are a lot of photographers, including British photographer Jono Renton, coming to Vietnam to get impressive experience and photos.
Jono Renton is a famous landscape photographer in the UK who has won various photography awards. It is therefore normal that he travels around the globe to take landscape photos in the rest of the world. During his latest tour to Vietnam, he depicted an incredibly beautiful Vietnam in a video called “A trip to Vietnam”.
Hanoi, in this photographer’s view, has no Hoan Kiem Lake or Turtle Tower but a very simple daily life with heavy traffic across the street corner, a small alley seen from above, light from someone’s window, hard-working street sweepers, street vendors or wedding cars, etc.
A street in Hanoi
Following Ha Noi are peaceful scenes in Ha Long Bay with a dog on the fisherman’s boat, children sitting on the boat, and a water and island labyrinth.
Ha Long Bay
Next, Ninh Binh is featured in the video with ancient peaceful Hoa Lu capital. It is also a mountain labyrinth on land with goats, postharvest rice fields, and caves hidden beneath small mountains, etc. all making a simple rustic but seductive and mysterious Ninh Binh.
Hoi An…
An old lady on Hoi An ancient town…
… Can Tho…
… Tra Su Melaleuca forest.
Moving farther are Hoi An ancient town with its characteristic lantern night, Can Tho with its coconut, bamboo leaves and river life, and Tra Su Melaleuca forest (An Giang), and so on.
Photographer Jono Renton
Wherever he went, Renton did not forget to record the smiles of the Vietnamese people, including the women rowing on Ngo Dong River in Ninh Binh, the South Vietnamese woman carrying him cross Tra Su Melaleuca forest, and the child standing along the road, etc. It was the rustic friendly smiles that made this photographer’s scenes ever more moving.
Do not hesitate. Go and find your own Vietnam!
An An