Tengboche Monastery, a photo from Sagarmatha, East

Photographer's Note

This beautiful building is the Tengboche Monastery, nestles high in the Himalayas at 3,867m altitude. It can be considered the spiritual centerpiece of the Everest Region, where Buddhists gather to take part in holy ceremonies. The monastery faces the mountains of Lhotse, Everest and Ama Dablam, situated directly behind me. The slate-like stones shown to form a wall here are Mani Stones, which are each inscribed with the chant (mantra) Om Mani Padme Hum, words of praise to the Buddha. This monastery burnt to the ground in a catastrophic fire on January 20 1989 (the day I was born, co-incidentally), and was rebuilt in the same likeness. A beautiful place.

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Sonata11 (34119) 2011-01-23 16:38

Hello Matthew,
it is a very intersting architecture of the Tengboche Monastery. This place is a very impressive and beautiful.Thanks for such a nice information.I love this picture with a beautiful colors, sharpness, clarity and good framed as well.
All the best,
Barbara

adores (46979) 2011-01-23 16:54

Hi Matthew!
You're right, this place must be really something!Guess it's the first time I'm seeing it, I guess I'd remember these stones! I like this architecture a lot, it reminds me of Chengde, in the North of China!And you found a great pov to show the place. Colours, sharpness and dof are very good also!

LondonBoy (2474) 2011-01-23 17:54

Magnificent compositon, love the snow peaks on the backgorund. I would have enhanced the saturation a bit so as to give an even more magical atmosphere to the photo.

TFS
Alex

mvdisco (17798) 2011-01-23 18:51

Hi Matt,
Another beautiful presentation from Nepal,
Nice note of of the Tengboche Monastery,
great picture trip with great colors and light,
Excellent composition,
All the best...and Happy birdday to your 22 years old,
Bonne f黎e in French...
Michel

lopshang (724) 2011-01-23 19:39

Hi Matthew

Lovely composition. The sharpness and the vivid color has really come up well. The structure of Monastery has came out well against blue sky. Liked the way you took the Chorten along the side of the main Monastery.

Regards,

Lopshang.

asajernigan (21427) 2011-01-24 3:34

Matthew,
This is a nicely composed shot of this interesting architecture. The diagonal created by the mountain leads the eye to the buildings nicely. The lighting and colors are great and the photo has excellent sharpness. The deep blue sky proivdes a great backdrop for the shot.
TFS,
Asa

Elaine_Blath (8471) 2011-01-24 5:22

Hello Matthew,

you were lucky to have had such sunny weather in Tengboche! When we were there, there was absolutely dense fog all around and we did not see anything except for the closest yaks...

Good work, Ivana

Angshu (56760) 2011-01-27 0:06

Hello Matthew
Much belated wishes for your birthday! Hope you have a great year ahead
Nice picture of the Tengboche Monastery, well balanced in composition between the chorten on the left & the monastery building on the right, bridged by the wonderful peaks in the BG. Colours are good...IMHO you could have used a bit of 'curves' on the Mani stones in the FG as they border on OE...very difficult to expose on their light colours.
Otherwise a fine picture with good documentary value!
Best Regards
Angshu

Photo Information

Copyright: Matthew Watt (Matthew-Watt) (5934)
Genre: 場所
Medium: カラー
Date Taken: 2010-11-21
Categories: Architecture
Camera: CANON EOS 550D, Canon EF 55-250 mm f/4 - 5.6 IS, Hoya 58mm Circular Polarizer
Exposure：　f/9.0, 1/100 seconds
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Photo Version：　Original Version
Date Submitted: 2011-01-23 15:53