The Iconoclast 😎 🏴‍☠️

Mountain Church, Nha Trang

“Compatriots of all religions have the
right to freedom of belief and worship”

~ Ho Chi Minh

Long Sơn Temple, Nha Trang . . .

. . . has the biggest Buddhacious Buddha!

Big Bro Ho

The conversion of a Western Imperialist

whilst hiding away at the Viet Cong Hilton
along with some Russian draft dodgers …
“Slava Ukraini!” 🇺🇦 ☮️ ✊️😎

There for the decadent buffet breakfast 🍰

“Let the peasant eat cake.”
~ Comrade Bo Ho

Another Smoothie Criminal 🧋🐒

This monkey is asking for a spanking 🐵

“I think I’m turning Vietnamese 🇻🇳 🤔🕶
I really think so, in my bodacious boho hat
(by special request from Timothy Price 👍).

Photography:
David & Linda Redpath © 2025

54 thoughts on “The Iconoclast 😎 🏴‍☠️”

  1. That was one bodacious Buddha, and a decadent breakfast to boot. I think that monkey needs a spanking and then be
    sent to rehab. Wonderful photos.

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    1. Thanks for taking the misguided tour,
      Timothy.Yes, I’m sure that suspicious
      character, dressed like a Bollywood
      pimp, was a desperado junkie monkey
      Giving away lollies 🍭 to kiddies was
      just a clever ruse 🐒 🤔🕶

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    1. The victim was rather amused at the
      antics of that monkey, despite losing
      his 60,000 Dong($2.27 USD)smoothie.
      I would’ve climbed up that tree and
      given that thieving primate 🧋🐒 a
      damn good spanking 😎

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    1. Thanks Geoff 🙏
      From someone who puts the fun
      into profundity, I’ll take that as a
      compliment. Much like your good
      self, I do get a bit lost between the
      profoundly hysterical and the
      hysterically profound 🤔🕶

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    1. It was a different world back then,
      but sadly, the more things change
      the more they stay the same, Dwight.
      55 years ago, 1970, I was marching
      in the Vietnam Moratorium protests.
      One of my older brothers had been
      conscripted into the Australian army.
      I was in my early teens and was greatly
      disturbed by the news reports coming
      out of Vietnam. Children running in
      terror whilst covered in napalm. It was
      the largest protest in Australia’s history
      with many asking what the hell are we
      doing over there? . . .

      (Forgive Country Joe’s profanity 🙉)

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    1. Thanks Christopher 🙏
      I believe Baby Ho was in Tehran
      attending the inauguration ceremony
      for the new Iranian president Masoud
      Pezeshkian. She likes to watch all the
      fireworks 💥 after a game of ‘Tag the
      Target’. But that’s top secret 🤫🕶
      She went there to write a book, ‘Sufi
      and the Art of Helicopter Maintenance🔧’.

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  15. I love the criminal in the tree – what a great capture of the smoothie robbery. I would expect you two to capture that while it was happening. I must say that your breakfast looks like something I might pick as well. Yummy! Loved the picture of the Hilton in the trees – I have to love your sense of humor my friend. I bet you two make each other laugh a lot. A measurement of having a great time in the privacy of our paradise in the woods is if we laugh until we spit out what ever is being consumed at the time or laugh till we leak. haha I love what you did with the photos, especially the praying angels. Your captions are great and again, love your comments back. Big hugs, and lots of blessings to you both, love Joni

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    1. Greatly appreciated, Joni 🙏
      As I keep telling Linda, some
      people would pay good money
      for my insightful, and at times
      comic, commentary 💸👌😎
      The angel photos were taken
      outside the Mountain Church ✝️
      Nha Trang. It is a major tourist
      attraction so I went there twice
      to check it out, but each time it
      was closed! 😢🕶 It was almost
      enough to turn a guy Buddhist ☸️
      as the Long Sơn Temple down the
      road seemed to always be open.
      Anyway, I put it down to a bad
      tour guide . . . me 🤔🕶

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      1. I loved your commentary and you are always entertaining. I am sure Linda enjoys your sense of humor too. Laughter is like gold and keeps us young. I really thought the angel photography’s were particularly beautiful. I loved sharing your and Linda’s trip through your photography. Thank you both. Take care of each other. 🤗🙏❤️

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      2. what no one else can see
        what no one else can know
        between Linda and me
        there seems to be
        this invisible golden glow
        far greater than the sum
        of two mortal hearts
        it could only come
        from somewhere high above
        where no one else can see
        where no one else can know
        unless they’ve been touched
        by that special kind of love
        with a heavenly golden glow
        ❤️ 💛 ❤️

        Keep on shining, as seen through
        your glorious writing, Joni.

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  16. These photos slip into the mind like a quiet spell—soft, deliberate, a little dangerous. You don’t just look at them; they coil around you and whisper their colors. Thanks for sharing! 🛵📷

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