Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
2014-08-21
2014-08-20
hasselblad film photo #1 from salt spring island, bc, canada
After many years of only digital photography, here is a teaser from my first foray into film! On a lovely recent trip to British Columbia, I had the privilege of using a beautifully preserved Hasselblad 500 C/M to shoot five rolls of ISO400, 120mm film. They've been developed and scanned (thank you, Colortek), so stay tuned for my favorite shots, post-processed with Darktable (the open-source photography lighttable/darkroom workflow application for Linux).
2013-07-01
2013-06-26
young man who came up to meet us on the mountain -- cange, haiti
(the Dominican Republic starts 7 miles off in the distance back there)
2013-01-08
qamba (future) buddha, tashilhunpo monastery, shigatse
"Tibet's Tashilunpo Monastery has the world's biggest gilt Buddha statue and cassock, according to www.tibet.cn"
"Built in 1447 by disciples of Tsongkhapa, founder of the Yellow Sect (Gelug Sect), the monastery is the permanent residence for generations of the Panchen Lama. Considered sacred for Buddhist followers, pilgrims and tourists during the past 500 years, it has greeted more than 400,000 visitors since 1984.
"Situated west of the monastery is the 30-m-high Palace of Qamba Buddha with an area of 862 sq m. There, sitting on a lotus pedestal of 3.8 m tall is a gilt statue of the Buddha with the height of 26.2 m, the shoulder breadth of 11.5 m and the ear length of 2.2 m."
2012-06-05
tinkertown museum @ sandia park, nm
One of the top ten small museums in America in 2010, Tinkertown showcases 40+ years of artist Ross Ward's model carvings, collections, and constructions. A lot of them, including this one, move about on the push of a button.
2012-04-19
2011-09-28
2011-09-23
sera monastery monk debates 1 (lhasa, tibet)
(each day, the monks of the sera monastery gather in a courtyard and debate buddhist philosophy.)
sera monastery monk debates 2 (lhasa, tibet)
(questions are posed and free discussion takes place in conjunction with performance of repeated ritual gestures and stances.)
sera monastery monk debates 3 (lhasa, tibet)
(the performative aspects are often carried out with great passion and energy.)
sera monastery monk debates 4 (lhasa, tibet)
(but for all the moral lecturing that takes place, there always remains a palpable lightness, for the monks love and enjoy this ritual.)
sera monastery monk debates 5 (lhasa, tibet)
(after an hour, the session adjourns and the monks pour out of the courtyard to return home.)
sera monastery monk debates 6 (lhasa, tibet)
(thus does the ritual conclude until the masters pose new questions and the students continue their growth the next day.)
