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 I have just published two new web albums on the Photo Dharma website that I took recently at nearby Chinese temples. They were taken to try out my new camera which is advertised as being especially useful in low light conditions. Read More: Photographs of Two Chinese Temples  Video of murals inside Viharn Lai Kham, which date from the mid-19th century and illustrate two non-Canonical Jataka Stories, using pan and zoom techniques to animate the photographs. Read More: Video of Murals in Viharn Lai Kham, Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai  Photograph by Seydou Keita In the fourth episode of this series, shown last week, we saw how photography had gone on to the streets and found its own voice there, where fine art had never been seen. In the fifth episode we find photography invading the very personal lives of people, including their additions, their sexual Read More: The Genius of Photography 6: Snap Judgements  This week’s episode looks at the way photographers found their own terrain on the streets of the cities, the highways and beaches of the post-war world. Read More: The Genius of Photography 4: Paper Movies  This week’s episode is about the evolution of photojournalism, from its beginnings with the Frenchman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great photographers of the 20th century, up and to the coverage of the aftermath of 9/11. Read More: The Genius of Photography 3: Right Time, Right Place  The second documentary in this BBC series examines the various movements that arose in photography in the first half of the 20th century by focusing on some of the representative workers in the field. Read More: The Genius of Photography 2: Documents for Artists  Leave a commentCategories: Documentary, Photos Tags: America, Arts, Culture, England, France, History, Russia  A short book by Ven Dhammika as a companion to Mount Kailash has now been published on the Photo Dharma website, with extra photographs he took along the way. Read More: Mount Kailash, A Pilgrim’s Companion  This is the first in a series of documentaries tracing the evolution and the various uses of photography, and how it has changed the way we see the world, with some wonderful early examples of the technique.  A report on my stay at Wat Sri Suphan in Chiang Mai, the wonderful art work that is found there and the support they are giving to the local traditions of Lanna arts and crafts.  A report on some of the Temples I visited in the immediate Chiang Mai area, including Wat Phra That Doi Suthep.  Photographs from the temples in the old City, which are some of the oldest in Chiang Mai, and were often built with Royal patronage, along with recollections of my visit to the various Temples.  This post covers my trip to Fang, Tha Ton and Chiang Rai and the modern temples and other buildings that we found there, including the White Temple and the Black House.  Over the past few years Ven. Dhammika has been traveling extensively and fortunately for us he took his camera with him. Now he has contributed some of these photos to the Photo Dharma website. Read More: Second Guest on Photo Dharma: Ven. Dhammika  I went to Penang last week to take some books to various centres on the Island, and at the last place I went to I noticed an incongruous life-sized Buddha Head sticking out of a cardboard box. Read More: A New Buddha Head  This post looks at how I solved a problem I had with naming captions in photographs so they can be easily uploaded to Picasa web albums. It also shows how to write to jpeg comments. Read More: Writing Filenames into JPEG Comments and Captions with a Batch File  Po Win Daung is a large complex of 800+ sandstone caves around 20 km from Monywa, which have been dug out of the hills and contains what is considered to be one of the richest collection of mural paintings and Buddhist statues in South-East Asia. Read More: Buddhas and Murals at the Po Win Caves – 2  The very next day we organised a major outing to go and see the Po Win caves which are west of Monywa, and around 150km away from our base. This was probably our biggest “find” on the trip. Read More: Buddhas and Murals at the Po Win Caves – 1  After visiting and photographing the Kyauktawgyi Pagoda, and feeling more satisfied with ourselves, having done one of the things we had set out to do, we decided to walk back over the U Bein bridge. The bridge is said, at around 1200 metres long, to be the longest teak bridge in the world, and Read More: Idyllic Taungthaman Lake  I very much liked the mosaic work found in the temples and pagodas I saw in Myanmar, and being inspired by the idea when I got back I made a digital mosaic based on a photograph of a pedestal mosaic at Shwedagon, Yangon. Read More: Digital Mosaics made using Foto-Mosaic-Edda  King Pagan built the Kyauktawgyi Temple on an island in the Taugthaman Lake in 1847, inside there are many very fine mural paintings showing temples and pagodas from throughout the Burmese Kingdom. Read More: Mural Paintings at Kyauktawgyi Pagoda |
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