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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 0:57:45 GMT
I love photgraphing windows in the Tibetan part of Nepal (Upper Mustang)...and here I have found some beauties. I don't think I've seen any two the same. Aren't the walls thick and beautiful. It gets extra cold up in them high mountains... (average height on Tibetan plateau ...13,000/14,000ft)...AND the air is rare.   |
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 1:00:23 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 1:04:12 GMT
These were in a monastery.   |
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 1:06:37 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 1:09:13 GMT
A typical Tibetan table  and a Door....  Most of the colours are natural. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2009 4:47:26 GMT
Spindrift, these are absolutely magnificent! Any one of them could stand alone as a marvelous photograph, but to see them all together & to know what they are makes the experience of viewing them even richer.
I really like how you broke them up into different posts -- it made the thread load immediately. If you click on the pictures once, you can see them on a plain page. But if you click on them once on that page, they get bigger & you can scroll a bit to hone in on details. Nice!
The photos give some idea of why that area so calls to you. THANK YOU.
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Post by palesa on Feb 5, 2009 5:01:59 GMT
These are amazing. Thank you for sharing this little peek with us.
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 5, 2009 8:25:36 GMT
Wow, those are amazing spindrift ! I have a bit of a weakness for colourful windows too !
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 9:23:12 GMT
It looks like cans of bright paint would be a highly appreciated gift for one visiting those regions.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2009 10:07:29 GMT
I am glad you like them!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 13:55:29 GMT
Very lovely,thank you. I feel inspired.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 11, 2009 15:08:54 GMT
'You have a 'Spindrift folder'?
*yikes*
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 15:13:03 GMT
Stalker material! Just imagine the Kerouac folder.
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Post by Jazz on Feb 11, 2009 15:32:30 GMT
Stalker material! Just imagine the Kerouac folder. ......heheh...don't ever be mean to me online  Kerouac's is huge! I had to subdivide it into individual folders. |
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Post by spindrift on Feb 12, 2009 3:35:30 GMT
Jazz - I'm happy you like some of my photos. I'll be putting up more very soon.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 5:52:29 GMT
I need to get back to photo scanning again one of these days. But it is long slow work.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 12, 2009 8:28:07 GMT
Yes, scanning requires a lot of patience. First we have to find the pictures!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2009 6:08:31 GMT
On this dreary morning, I needed to take another look at these windows.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 4, 2009 8:49:26 GMT
Glad you like them. All Tibetans seem to be artistic and have an ingrained sense of where and how to paint colours. Before recent times all of their colours were mixed from earth and plants.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 10, 2009 6:12:57 GMT
Very nice!
Is it the bleak landscape that gets people to become so 'colourful'?
Are their clothes like that?
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Post by spindrift on Mar 12, 2009 16:02:57 GMT
If you look at my 'Mustang, Lo Manthang' pictures (Postcards) you'll see how colourful their clothes can be for festivals...
For everyday wear they wear dark coloured wool clothes but the women add a colourful striped apron over their skirts which is tied over their waists for warmth.
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Post by imec on Oct 5, 2009 14:50:37 GMT
bixa, thanks for pointing us here. This thread needs a bump for sure - really, really nice spindrift!
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Post by fumobici on Oct 5, 2009 15:36:41 GMT
I'd missed this- awesome photo essay. Colors play on my emotions in a very direct and primal way, these make me smile.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 15:41:33 GMT
This has always been one of my favorite photo threads on the board. Thank you whomever brought it back up. I see something different each time I look at it. Simply beautiful.
Looking back at the date on when this was originally posted I see it was one of if not the first photo thread on here. God,have we been here that long? Sometimes it seems longer though...
Anyway,bravo again spindrift!
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Post by BigIain on Oct 6, 2009 16:03:18 GMT
Just found these pics. Truly beautiful, thanks Spindrift.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2009 21:56:23 GMT
Where is our dynamo trekker anyway?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 6, 2009 21:57:41 GMT
I don't know, but life is drabber without Spindrift.
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