*Buddhist Lipstick*
Fuji GW690iii + Kodak Ektar 100
One of the most striking features of all these buddha statues at the 10000 Buddhas Monastery was the red paint on their lips. I kinda like it!
Meditation Stick
*Meditation Stick*
Fuji GW690iii + Fuji Provia 100F
Shooting with 100 ISO film is constraining. Especially on a sunny day with some shadows, since you always have to arbitrate on your depth of field as well as on what you want to come through exposure wise. This shot was super shallow, but I really like the end result even though my wife would probably say there’s too much blur!
Fractured Official
*Fractured Official*
Fuji GW690iii + Kodak Ektar 100
One of the things I love with the GW690 is the amount of detail it renders. The cracks on the paint of this buddhist statue fascinated me, and I love how they were captured in the image.
Bodhisattva Bokeh
*Bodhisattva Bokeh*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
I love the subtle bokeh of the GW690iii, but it’s not always easy to find the right conditions. It took me a long while to find a statue at the 10000 Buddhas Monastery that was not leaning against a corrugated iron fence, that was in the shadows enough that I could open up the lens and that looked good. But I did (this was the last shot in the roll!)
Buddhist Trio
*Buddhist Trio*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
I was quite taken by these three statues and the sign above their heads. I kind of wich I hadn’t cut down the base of the statues, but my angle of view wasn’t wide enough. Still, there’s a serenity here that I find quite striking.
Bearded Bodhisattva
*Bearded Bodhisattva*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
So all of the statues that line the path up to the 10000 Buddhas temple are painted gold, but some of them are fresher than others. I think the ones I liked the most were the older ones where the pain was seriously flaked already. They had a more statuesque feel to them, especially in Black & White.
Sweeping the Nun’s Shadows
*Sweeping the Nun’s Shadows*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
I’m not actually sure that these female figures represent Nuns, or if they are female Bodhisattva, but I liked the alignment of statues casting shadows, and the leaning broom breaks that alignment nicely.
Flaky Abbott
*Flaky Abbott*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
Despite our inability to travel over the christmas holiday (same as everybody else) we tried to make the most of it and check out HK spots that we’d missed so far. Such was the 10000 Buddhas temple in Sha Tin. A long strip of concrete path lined with lifesize buddhist statues leads to the temple itself up the hill. Fascinating place and great opportunity to shoot portraits of monks, abbots and stranger things.
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