Angkor Thom Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

My last shot from Cambodia, and the only one of an actual temple (well, there's so many here already). One of the advantages of coming here in the rainy season was the opportunity to get some intersting reflection shots in the floods that appear all over the place after a heavey night of rain, a small compensation for the lack of sunsets. It had just stopped when I took this shot, I arrived by bike with one hand on the handle bar, and one holding my umbrella, I wish I'd got someone to snap me like that.

supereira, Spoony, ChrisJ, DonQ, jrj, jhm, eleparc, yasoda-nandana, carper, Kenny10pin, Jeppe, nwoehnl, spence, elihesamian, sunny, Oldtree, gren4 has marked this note useful

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supereira (9576) 2004-10-04 5:23

Very good reflections on the water.Great textures and light.Good colors and contrast between them.Good composition.

Spoony (3539) 2004-10-04 5:41

Fantastic photo idea, with a wonderful final result. Very original!
Water reflexes are great. Well done and seen Richard.
Spoony.

ChrisJ (70443) 2004-10-04 5:47

Wow! You really put all that water to good use with some great reflections. It was a sdry as a bone when I was there. Your reward for the high humidity!

centurion (0) 2004-10-04 5:49

Interesting reflexions in the water mirror compensating the lack of saturated colours.

DonQ (2623) 2004-10-04 5:59

I like this dark trees and green background with nicely temple. Reflection on water is great too. Very well seen and composed Richard.
Regards, Don.

jrj (34779) 2004-10-04 6:07

Original very creative capture from this famous place. Very effectful - very good Richard....

eleparc (24059) 2004-10-04 8:26

this shot is very special richard...you are actually showing the temple but as a second subject;-) One almost has to look for it through the water and the reflection of the trees... all very well done! interesting light and compo;-)

carper (65598) 2004-10-04 10:20

This is really a great shot Richard,
I like the reflection of the trees in the water, and behind that temple. There is a great atmosphere in the composition, I like it a lot. With my compliments

Kenny10pin (19301) 2004-10-04 11:13

great work here, I like the trees and their natural formation, the reflection is very good too, well done

Jeppe (18623) 2004-10-04 11:55

Very fine and well composed shot - I like those bars formed by the trees and there reflections - the background makes the shot even more interesting - thanks Richard - very fine work you present here.

ninadev (5225) 2004-10-04 11:59

Very interesting POV, I have the feeling that I am looking to the temple protected behind bars. This feeling is especially due to the fact that the reflection of trees on the water.

Hanssie (9133) 2004-10-04 12:06

The temple is nice indeed, but your foreground is fantastic chosen, all these lines and reflections, it is, as said, fantastic, Richard !

rewmind (0) 2004-10-04 13:04

Beautiful "courtain" you are showing us. Trees are a difficult motif to photograph but when they are used as an ornament or a frame there are good results. Here, you did even more than that, your photo is offering something spectacular and we seem to be in front of an stage with a "curtain" made of trees. Very nice done.

nwoehnl (120) 2004-10-04 14:32

Well, in a situation where others might have said "darn those trees, I can't even get a decent shot of the temple", you just took things as they are and ended up with a supremely graphical result (on the thumbnail it looked like an iron grid on a window or something). Great use of reflections, and the light in the back really accentuates the hues of green well. Good capture, Richard.

spence (1679) 2004-10-04 19:48

Beautifully done, Richard! The trees and their reflections give the temple, lurking in the background, an added sense of mystery. I like the bright green of the grass which lifts the shot greatly. Nicely balanced shot too.

colorpw (165) 2004-10-05 10:30

very interesting view of cambodia, hopw to see more works from u

sn00zie (2384) 2004-10-05 11:54

very nice reflections in the water. like the way the temple's peeking out at us from behind the trees. nice idea!

everlasting (10940) 2004-10-06 3:23

An unusual shot of Angkor Thom, no roots to be seen :)
A great photo to save for the last, you almost dont see the temple at first.
Well done!

elihesamian (26091) 2004-10-06 9:03

WOW!Richard!
A great playing with verical lines of trees with notice to a great historcal temple in background,well done,very well managed,I like it alot,very well composed,Excellent,Richard.

oochappan (22032) 2004-10-06 11:50

An unusual view as a goodbye to this Angkor Thom with great reflections in the water enforcing the ritmic vertical trees. Well done Richard.
Henk

sunny (3068) 2004-10-06 16:55

Wow!! Fantastic water reflections, Richard! Magical view with all these tree-lines and the temple hidden behind them! Excellent light, framing, compo etc. Just great!

cgrindahl (6109) 2004-10-08 12:51

Fine PoV with the temple appearing between the trees as a pilgrim might discover it after a long journey. The reflections add much to the image though I probably would have cropped a bit tighter at the bottom. You did an excellent job Richard of making lemonade out of all the climactic lemons you found on this trip. I'd have loved to see an Englishman on a bicycle with umbrella and camera around his neck as well... too bad... ;-)

burdallet (0) 2004-10-08 16:59

An idea association with a window of a prison ( with vertical bars )
.. to remember what their our country was for the inhabitants due the Red/Nightmare

CoolDan (2490) 2004-10-12 15:50

La balade en valait la peine Richard. La lumière est magnifique et la réflexion est superbe. Bon travail.

Oldtree (2457) 2004-10-16 18:35

Hi Richard, yes that truly would be an interesting shot to see YOU making this photo. :-)
I once layed on a bench on my back trying some unusual angles to make a shot of a tree. So I lay there in the middle of a forest at 8 am and was quite relaxed because surely no one would come around. Well a jogger came along and looked a bit astonished seeing me there. I think we could start a club here with such situations and it would grow probably very fast in members.
I like the unusual POV here. Very well done. I think it would have been also an interesting composition to cut the whole top part containing the temple. So we only can see this temple in the water.

faubry (32415) 2005-02-21 17:10

i like this reflexion inthe water, great textures et colors, very good contrast
thanks

gren4 (603) 2005-03-27 8:22

A nice shot of a different point of view to the usual shots of angkor.Its nice to see the surrounding scenery as the location can be peacefull away from the tours.trees are very effective

ruisc_pt (6207) 2007-02-02 5:27

Interesting exposure.
The reflections and their angle with the original are perfect aligned.
tfs
:)