Two months worth of back editing continues. Last month I visited GonLung Jampaling Monastery in HuZhu county, QingHai, western China. HuZhu is one of the hidden treasures of western China because of it’s vast and varied minority mix – Mongolia, Tibetan, Muslim, Han. Just to give you an idea of how confusing things can get in HuZhu, the location we visited was a Tibetan Buddhist monastery composed almost entirely of ethnic Mongolians who spoke Chinese. Tibetan Mongolian Chinese speakers whose cousins are probably Muslims. Yeah, exactly.
Nonetheless, my good friend Jamin and I spent the entire afternoon in the foothills exploring monasteries and temples while visiting and chatting with the local monks. HuZhu is amazing and strongly reminds me of Rocky Mountain National Park – but higher, more rural, more Tibetan, and colder. It’s a great place to visit.
I’ve broken up my images into three different sections that I will post on in the coming days. I tried to squeeze them all into one post, but things just got horribly long winded and confusing. Be sure to click on the “VIEW SLIDESHOW” button to see all of the images – only a few are posted.
I sincerely hope you guys enjoy the images.
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Again, I have to apologize for the lack of stories on this. I’m getting images out as fast as I have time to edit them and I really want to share them before I just loose all interest and get way to busy.
Much like the previous two posts, I will get to the stories on these in the coming weeks!
Really do hope you guys enjoyed the images.
I have a bias toward black and white anyway, but these are really lovely, Brian. Several of them I could spend a long time looking at, and they’re the kind of images I would love to see in print.
Beautiful work.
Erin – Always a pleasure to have you comment on the blog. Really appreciate your comments.
Which image would you specifically want to see in print?
Thanks,
Brian
I think the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th images (vert landscape, interior, lamps, prayer flag) would would fabulous printed. I’m really intrigued by the interior image… so many crazy great details and texture. I realize this one would be tough to print well… easy for those deep blacks to take over. But it’s the kind of image that you want to spend some time with.
Oh, the prayer flag… yeah, I’d love to see this printed 8 or 10’wide. Would look fabulous as a huge focal point on a wall.
(ignore the typos lol)
I’m probably going to have a few printed. Will let you know how they turn out. I think you are correct on the prayer flags, you need to see a much larger image of it to get the detail.
Thanks again for commenting!
Those are images that are usually shown in color; prayer flags, monks, etc. Really like these , and the B&W gives them another dimension. Agree with Erin, they will look great in print, specially #1, #4 and #6…
Hey Matea,
Thanks for the comments and stopping by! The day we went it was about 50 degrees and pretty color with low clouds hovering over everything! I basically wanted to express that feeling in a set, at least. I think I’ve shot so many of these subjects before that I’m getting a bit tired of taking pictures of prayer flags – but there is always a new way to do it, isn’t there? You’ve got some fantastic work from Leh. Stay tuned, we are looking at offering a tour to northern Sikkim next year!!
Tomorrows post will be completely in color. I wanted to break these into three sections: Light & Shadows, Colors, and People. It just seemed appropriate!
If I had to pick three to print it would be 1, 2, and 4…