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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: The_Traveler on March 04, 2016, 18:35:20

Title: Statues somewhere near Hpa An, Myanmar
Post by: The_Traveler on March 04, 2016, 18:35:20

Statues somewhere near Hpa An, Myanmar


(http://lewlortonphoto.com/img/s10/v104/p1748678123-5.jpg)

Title: Re: Statues somewhere near Hpa An, Myanmar
Post by: Jakov Minić on March 04, 2016, 20:05:02

Lew, they are nicely queued up. I wonder what they're waiting for?

Title: Re: Statues somewhere near Hpa An, Myanmar
Post by: Frank Fremerey on March 04, 2016, 20:45:31

I immediately love the repetition narrative and the subued colors which do not easily attack each other like those in bright sunlight or those pumped a lot in post. The first figure stands out in its plasticity as if drawn with a very special lens like a 1.8/75 Zuiko

Title: Re: Statues somewhere near Hpa An, Myanmar
Post by: The_Traveler on March 04, 2016, 21:06:05

My assumption is that these statues represent the Buddha followed by the first monks. There is a large amount of symbolism associated with the various poses of the Buddha and I cannot find anything that mentions this kind of line, although it must be fairly common as I have seen several iterations of it.

Photography there is challenging only because the sun vaults high overhead in what seems to be minutes and going back to somewhere for better light is difficult. We did meet a French photographer, travelling with his publisher, who spends 2-3 months in each area and returns multiple times for each book.

This was taken with a Nikon 24-70 at 70 mm f 4
 
And, thanks for comment.