and while I'm uploading pictures

[winterbadger]

Here are the photos I took of the monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery who come to visit Hampton every summer.

The interior shots are of the closing ceremony of their visit of teaching and fundraising. The ceremony involved music, chanting, and the erasure of the sand mandala they created while they were there. Afterward they gave away little packets with some of the sand.

The outside shots are of their procession to the nearby river, where they had more music, more chanting, and scattered the remaining sand and flowers into the water.

Comments

[mazzie.livejournal.com]

thanks so much for sharing these.
beautiful.
inspiring, even.

[winterbadger]

You're welcome! I have some (very short) vidoe clips of the outisde bits too. And a giftie I still need to give you. :-)

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

#20 is very good. Thanks for putting those up.

I'm curious: do you hang on to the blurry ones or the misfires (I assume that's what the crosswalk shot is) for a reason? (We're usually deleting like crazy as we shoot, and then again before we upload.)

[winterbadger]

I usually upload everything with the intention of going and paring it down later. Not that I usally get around to that. :-)

I also keep meaning to make a "best of" folder, with things that came out really well (or that I've tricked up a bit. :-) Haven't done that either. :-)

But then I don't have either your skill or persistence, so I usually end up with just one or two photos of any given thing. (The photos of the portrait being an exception, because I wanted to see what I could accomplish by shootign from different angles. The answer being "no much".)

Of course, I'm also the person with 2,602 emails in the main folder of my work email program, because I don't like to throw things away I might need later...