[Leica] Vishnu's Dreaming - visits to two Hindu temples

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

They are 200-300 miles south/southeast of Bangalore. I will ask my friend 
about their locations. As I understand it, these two are not in use for 
worshiping currently. We went to a main temple outside of Bangalore, and 
it's quite colorful. So many temples, so little time :-)

At 08:06 PM 6/10/2006, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

>Richard,
>These are very nice - where were they? I presume somewhere near Bangalore? 
>In Chennai, at least, the main temples are repainted once every 5 years, 
>and they are colourful, to say the least.
>Cheers
>Jayanand
>
>
>Richard wrote:
>
>>Hi Jim, I don't know whether these were ever in color, but they are 
>>700-1000 years old, so there is no color now. The ones currently in use 
>>are in color.
>>
>>For people that recall, I lost a 6 month old hard drive last year with 
>>photos on it. The ones that are forever lost are the Epson R-D1 photos of 
>>an Indian village celebrating the Holi Festival - the Goan tour guide 
>>liked us so much that he invited us to his village. It was one of the 
>>most honored things people have done to us. Somewhere on our server, I 
>>have 4-5 pictures that I post. Those are the only ones left :-( (Yes, I 
>>have a reasonably good back up strategy now for digital RAW files. I have 
>>a 1 Terabyte network server that just backs up all the RAW files in the 
>>back ground)
>>
>> From the same trip, I do have a set of slides that I need to rescan and 
>> process. There are a small number of nice photos there.
>>
>>Thanks for looking and commenting.
>>
>>At 10:30 AM 6/10/2006, James R. Nelon wrote:
>>
>>>Richard,
>>>
>>>I really enjoyed the images, especially seeing the textures and shading of
>>>the stonework. In many Hindu temples, a lot of vivid colors are applied to
>>>the images. Was this the case here? If so, I missed being able to see the
>>>artistry of the colors since you shot in B&W.
>>>
>>>Jim Nelon
>>>Formerly in Hong Kong
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
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>>>[mailto:lug-bounces+jnelon=netvigator.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>>>Richard
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>>>Subject: [Leica] Vishnu's Dreaming - visits to two Hindu temples
>>>
>>>How can one take pictures of the Grand Canyon? With the exceptions of few
>>>awe inspiring pictures, most are just photographs of a hole, albeit a big
>>>one, on the ground.
>>>
>>>Thus with some trepidations that I present this gallery:
>>>http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/061006/
>>>The photographic contribution is close to nil. Nevertheless, it records a
>>>cultural heritage that belongs to all of us. The first set of photographs
>>>is from a stone temple built around 12-13th century. The workmanship is so
>>>startling that the artisans carved through some of the statues, as shown 
>>>in
>>>the very first picture. I *believe* (but could be wrong) that this temple
>>>is Shiva's temple. The second set is from a temple built around 10th
>>>century and their styles are somewhat different. I believe this temple is
>>>Vishnu's temple. The last picture is of Vishnu dreaming, from whose navel
>>>Brahma, the Creator comes forth.

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