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25-JAN-2005

Thatlluang Stupa - Vientiane

Such beautiful color and light. My friend Phil has a different take at the same location: Thatluang Stupa, Vientaine.

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Guest 10-May-2005 06:46
Really a brilliant abstraction..... and the colour is really glooming
monique jansen28-Mar-2005 09:20
golden glow. Also went back to Phil's image of the same temple, it is always interesting to see what two different photographers make of the same setting.
Wendy O15-Mar-2005 05:39
Great composition!
Phil Douglis04-Mar-2005 06:52
Thanks, Tim, for linking this image to one that I made on the same visit to this Stupa. I've also posted that image here on page in my "Memories in Metal and Stone" gallery at:http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/40199357/original

It is interesting that neither of us made the mistake of trying to get the entire stupa into the frame. It would have made a very cluttered image because of the huge scale of this structure. We each abstracted it, and featured different approaches to handling those wonderful shadows. Your vertical image is a golden birthday cake of vertical rhythms, punctuated by those tilted shadows that add a horizontal counterpoint. My horizontal image lacks the upward thrust and instead spreads out to embrace the statue of a Laotian king within its rhythms. As Lara points out in her comment under my image, the king's hat, which comes to a point goes one way, and the shadows of the pointed towers go another. Each image expresses the gilded glory of Vientiane's prime attraction in a strikingly different way, and each is typical of our own styles as well.