Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 11:22?PM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > After a break of a couple of years we went to the Brahmotsavam of 6th > century Parthasarathy Temple at Triplicane in Chennai last week, on one of > the relatively minor days to beat the crowd. The festival, which lasts a > week, entails giving the deity of Lord Vishnu an airing around the extended > area surrounding the temple, on various ceremonial palanquins carried by > the devotees, culminating in a ride on a huge chariot also pulled around by > the devotees. Not being a particularly religious person, I never fail to > get amazed and awestruck by the amount of pain and effort that devotees > expend in order to express their deep belief in the religion of their > choice. > > This is a fairly large submission, so please bear with me. > > All photographs taken with the Nikon Z8 and the Nikkor Z 135mm f1.8S > "Plena", arguably the best portrait lens I have ever used in 60+ years of > photography. ========================================================================== What a treasure trove of images. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt