Thiksey Monastery (image rich)

[Manfred M]

Thiksey Monastery is the largest in Ladakh and often reminds people of the Potala Palace, in Lhasa, Tibet. I tool a series of shots during our morning visit. The monks were extremely scarce - we saw two or three during our entire visit, so that is why there are no shots of monks in this series.

1. Thiksey Monastery





2. Maitreya (Future Buddha) at Thiksey Monastery. It was installed in 1970 for the visit by the Dali Lhama. It is 15m / 49 ft high. This image was created from 5 hand-blended, bracketed shots.





3. Chorten - these are monuments to important people. In some places, in the past, ashes of the deceased were placed inside them, but that is not the case with these chorten.





4. Prayer wheels





5. Door leading to a temple in the monastery





6. Time for some abstract shots. This is a shot of shadows on a stairway (the shot has been rotated by 90 degrees).





7. More abstract stairs.

[Mike Buckley]

Great color! The two abstracts are really inventive; great eye for seeing them.

[Urbanflyer]

Wow, wonderful!

[Shadowman]

Nice angles and exposures.

[bje07]

Great colors and as John wrote nice angles.

[Mutley]

Very nice set.
My only wish is that #3 had something to give some scale in it. Maybe thats just me but I keep looking at that one and wondering, how big are they?
Maybe I'm just nosey

Ps love the abstract ones Manfred

[Kaye Leggett]

Lovely set. Particularly like the first and last and the way the first is the big picture and the last the little detail

[Manfred M]

Very nice set.
My only wish is that #3 had something to give some scale in it. Maybe thats just me but I keep looking at that one and wondering, how big are they?
Maybe I'm just nosey

Ps love the abstract ones Manfred

Thanks - the main reason for my framing in #3 is that the car park was right in front of these and somehow the taxis and loitering taxi drivers did not add to the atmosphere. Here is a shot I took when we arrived at the site and before the car park started to fill up. The hand rail should give you an idea of size.

[madcrow]

All wonderful and beautiful images. Abstract different and eye catching.

[Wavelength]

Really great images; i feel being there

[Mutley]

Wow! they're kinda way bigger than I thought
Thanks for that.
Oh and I see why you framed it like you did now.

[rpcrowe]

Great set of images!

[Dave A]

Wonderful series Manfred.

Dave

[Pixl8tor]

Excellent shots Manfred.
#1 is a center spread for a travel magazine, as is the shot of Stakna Monastery from a previous post.
My personal favourite is #7 the Abstract Stairs.
Bill

[John 2]

That's a wonderful set Manfred. I particularly like the abstracts and I'm intrigued by the first image. I can't help wondering what goes on in all those little boxes.

[Manfred M]

. I can't help wondering what goes on in all those little boxes.

That's where they store the monks, i.e. their apartments.