Guardians

Guardians

Statues guarding the entrance to the Abu Simbel temple in Upper Egypt. This temple was carved out of a huge rock, and the whole thing was cut into pieces and moved up the mountain when the Nasser dam was built, in order to save it from being flooded by Lake Nasser.

The shot was taken close to winter solstice, at which the sunlight shines right through from the entrance (left of the image) into the inner sanctum.

Obviously I was not alone there, so I tried to reduce the distraction of people walking around by taking a long exposure, and like the fact that a hint of a person can still be made out in front of those stone guardians who have been standing there for millenia – perhaps this is how they are seeing us anyway.

Scan from colour slide (Kodachrome from 1990).

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