Thyanboche Monastery

Beautiful light! You can almost touch it…

Thank you for your comments. The light was there for just a minute or two, ethereal.

P-e-r-f-e-c-t that the light was just there for a moment! _Impermanence (spelling?!) Magnificent capture of that moment, and I like the wide angle-ness too, seems like the room is breathing in..
By the by, this is also where my ‘hot shower’ shot was taken!

i can smell this and feel it and hear the horns, cymbals and bells. Brilliant, i want to go back!!!

Love the red fading into black…

Thank you both Linda and Ben! I’m always dreaming of going back…

What a stunnign moment to capture. I love the light. The time I was at Tengboche Monastry, the monks got the giggles in the middle of chant, I couldn’t help but giggle myself.

Your photo is stunning.

An amazing subject , beautifully portrayed in the available light. Thanks for the fave.

gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!!!!!!!! your colors are magnificent and I love the light beams!!!! I have a “funny” story about a sand mandella that was created here in the United States a year or so ago. Some monks were painstakingly creating one of these works of art in a public building. In the evening, when they left, velvet ropes, the kinds you see in movie theaters, were used to keep the public away. One morning, they arrived to find their work of art horribly scuffed up!! What had happened?? Security cameras discovered the answer. A young mother and her child were at the post office, directly in front of the monk’s display. As the lady transacted her business, her 3 or 4 year old son skipped away from her and … as all children love to do … went to play in the sandbox!!! LOL!!

Absolutely wonderful. You have a gift in telling stories in your photography. Any you really know how to use a fisheye lens to it’s potential.

Great choice of lens. This photo reminds me of something I’d see in National Geographic.

You’re right!!!! They just patiently went about re creating it!!!

Well done, lovely photo!

Stunning capture Laurette

wonderful capture Laurette!!!! congratulations

Excellent!

congratulations !!

This is brilliant. I love the distortion as well.

Congrats on making HOME PAGE! 15/11/08

Lovely iamge and colors.. congrats

wow! love the colors and the light from the window! congrats on home page!!

Wow this is absolutely beautiful Laurette : ), the light is stunning.. as well as the subject. I saw Monks doing this on TV some years ago and was amazed by their patience and passion. Awesome image!! Well done.. Oh and congratulations on the homepage feature! Wen x

congratulations on featuring on the homepage it is really a great capture

congratulations deserved win

congratulations on your well-deserved win! this challenge was tough – sooo many good entries, it was very hard to choose!!

AAAAAND, to be featured on the rb home page is quite a distinction – congrats again!!!

nice nice.. love it.

Wonderful work and congrats on your home page feature!
sarah

Gorgeous capture of colors and sunbeams! Congrats on homepage feature!

This is such a stunning image!!! Beautiful lighting and composition! Congratulations : )

amazing image, so luminous and compelling …

Congrats also for winning the Morning and Evenings challenge for the light coming inside!

Exquisite!

Should be in National Geographic :o)

Phill

Wow! Brilliant. I LOVE your work!

Beautiful image Laurette. Your images are so sensitively captured and beautifully presented. You have a wonderful talent – keep up the amazing work :-)

Just amazing!!

I love the light in this image its almost like the mantra are seeing out to the world!. You are a very skilled photographer but what I love the most in your work is your sense of freedom.

Love the light coming through the window! Great shot!

kool shot!!!!

Firstly im sorry for taking way too long to comment on this pic! Could this be a more perfect magical moment ? no!! and for you to be there and take this shot as you did so perfectly just shows me how deep your amazing eye for visual talent runs. not to mention your blissful writing skills:)
Really amazing work as always Laurette!! 8-)

Michael, no need to apologise, it’s nice to discover your work from time to time too ;) it was the perfect moment, the sunbeams were gone a few seconds later. really something magical and spiritual in that moment. thanku for your kind words, thanku seriously soooo much ;-))

It oozes magic! i just love it, im so glad you timed it to get that light! ooh what a place…next time you go come get me first ok :) i gotta be there!!!

Stunning image, perfect light, a fave

A stunning image with superb lighting & great information to top it off – wish I had a chance to go there one day (adding it to the wish list)

Enlightning shot

Hi, Laurette:

Congratulations! 16 Feb 2009 Stand by for a BLUE RIBBON CHALLENGE. Watch the Mornings & Evenings - Sunbeams & Storms BMails to know when to enter! Good luck to you, as if you needed luck!

THYANBOCHE MONESTARY has been cleared to enter Mornings & Evenings - Sunbeams & Storms’ BLUE RIBBON CHALLENGE running currently. 22 Feb 2009

What a gorgeous image! Lovely.

The light shafts coming through are excellent.

eye-catching, spiritual, colourful, beautiful shot x

Wonderful photograph. I can smell the incense.

Super image. Great story.

Wow !! Stunning light in this little tibetan house.

Well captured image

fantastic image …i think a pic should be able to tell a bit of a story and this one certainly does !

Amazing.

BEAUTIFUL!!! the lighting, the mood just perfect..

it is really a great capture, well shot.

Wonderful