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Lantern


Lantern
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Copyright: Simon Mitternacht (mitternacht) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 922 W: 280 N: 272] (1836)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-07-01
Categories: Architecture, Artwork
Camera: Canon EOS 300, Tamron 28-200AF XR, Fuji Sensia 200, UV
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Traditional Chinese architecture [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-04-17 12:36
Viewed: 1354
Points: 22
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Here are some chinese clichés, the lantern, the concave roofs, the roof-figurines, the red walls, etc. There is also a little bell hanging rom the roof. This picture is from one of the larger temples/monasteries in the central town in the holy mountain range wu tai shan (five plateau mountain).

The wu tai shan area is the largest lamaist pilgrimage site outside Tibet with around 50 temples and monasteries. Most of them located in the valley but also on each one of the five 3000 meter mountain tops that have given the area its name. And there are a few scattered on the mountainsides and the smaller peaks.

This is a place well worth a visit - ca 9 hours by train to Taiyuan from Beijing and then 6 hours by bus - accomodation is cheap 30-40 yuan for a bed in a double room, and the air is refreshingly clean. The weather was perfect when I was there - 20-25 degrees celsius and an almost cloudless blue sky. After a few weeks in Beijing, this is exactly what you need. Tourism makes the main village sort of busy, but just an hours walk or so is required to reach some of the more desolate temples where you can just sit and relax.

A technical note, this picture made me realize how much information there is even in really cheap 200 ASA slide film like this. Under the lantern there is a green ring, on the full size version you can see that there's some almost readable writing on it, I have posted a close-up as a workshop and maybe someone more literate in chinese can say what it reads.
jhm, papagolf21, jrj, oochappan, nwoehnl, elihesamian, orme has marked this note useful
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  • jhm Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 12731 W: 272 N: 16984] (67992)
  • [2005-04-17 13:55]

Hi Simon,
I like the specially lantern, against the blue sky, also it dark part above left, the cloud to the sky give attractive for looking. Excellent note too.
Thanks for comment on my 400th photo.
John

I like all the different textures on this shot : ceramics, bricks, wood and silk. good colors and details.
Vanessa

Bonsoir Simon,
Le cadrage est parfait pour mettre en valeur cette lanterne si particulière. L'on pourrait presque croire à une montgolfière (ballon dirigeable) noyée dans ce ciel bleu accompagné d'un petit nuage blanc.
Les toits environnants me plaisent beaucoup par leur architecture et leur délicatesse.
Très bien fait.
Amitiés.
Philippe

I love those lanterns and you framed it nicely in a good compo to the sky and around a lot to see.
Henk

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  • jrj Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5518 W: 498 N: 7278] (33080)
  • [2005-04-19 3:58]

Creative and well made shot this one Simon. I like the lamp presented as it is almost floating around up there. Good details and well cropped this photo.

Hi Simon. Interesting colorful archi detail; the lantern almost looked like a hot-air balloon from the thumbnail. You show it nicely embedded between the pagoda roofs, and the third of a tree reaching into the frame from the right is essential for balance purposes. I also like that single fluffy cloud in the back.

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  • manny Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2979 W: 89 N: 4017] (21378)
  • [2005-04-20 3:26]
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You have style in composing. Somehow, I can identify your work which is something good.

In tumbnail I saw it a ballon!(what bad mistake:)
but now I find it another element!
great POV,very well seen in this angle,great sharpness and a fine informative shot,too,I like the way you composed the rooves and tree in right is fine here,too,nicely done,I like it,Simon!

Regards
M

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  • orme Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2013 W: 139 N: 1496] (6605)
  • [2005-05-01 6:01]

This is a well framed shot, Simon. Beautiful architecture. I like the way you show us these Chinese roofs from below and above. Excellent detail and colours. Well seen.

Very good composition of this chineese lantern with the typical house, Simon. I like also the blue decoration between the red wall and the roof. Well seen and interesting close up in the WS.

Hi Simon
very elegant shot. Very nice light and colors, but very good composition !
I like this beautifull picture .
Bertrand

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