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Lifting the dead


Lifting the dead
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Copyright: Boris Kester (bkester) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 42 W: 14 N: 91] (730)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-04-25
Categories: Daily Life, Ceremony, Decisive Moment
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Exposure: f/4, 1/60 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-05-19 6:02
Viewed: 824
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
At the Pashupatinath cremation site, I sat several hours just to watch the scenes unfolding in front of my eyes, and to contemplate life and death. Here, you can see a group of relatives surrounding a strecher being lifted by two men who will carry it to a platform on the holy river Bagmati, where the body will be subsequently cremated.
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  • nbj Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 484 W: 0 N: 54] (1573)
  • [2007-05-19 6:13]

fatastic picture! the colors, the expressions, the smoke...it all adds to the very dramatic atmosphere you captured so well. i've added it to my favourites.

Boris,
La scène méritait bien une photo, la tension (l'attention aussi) est palpable...La composition est réussie...félicitations et merci pour le partage!

don't really know what to say here ... i've noticed it then left, then returned and left again ... and what else could i say while telling myself that death is a part of life and any scene picturing people's rituals connected to this passing to maybe milder dimmensions is a part of our daily life, aswell.
thank you for showing this scene to us!
dora

interesting scene and great composition showing us how close life and death are.
well seen & captured, thor.

Hi Boris,
What a wonderful photo showing the ceremony and smoke and colors are wonderful but especillay the expressions you captured are wonderful.
regards
mali

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