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Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone (Timelapse)
Some timelapses I made while I was at Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone near Sanya, Hainan, China. The statue is of Guan Yin, the Bodhisattva of mercy and compassion in Chinese Buddhism. A Bodhisattva is (if I even remember correctly), in Mahayana Buddhism, somebody who has achieved enlightenment and died but chosen to remain in the cycle of Samsara and continue to be reincarnated to help others until everybody can exit samsara all together. Guan Yin in Japanes is Kannon or something like that, I don't know how to properly write Japanese in our alphabet, but anyway, I'm told the Canon camera company takes its name from the Bodhisattva. This statue at Nanshan is the tallest statue of Guan Yin in the world, and the fourth tallest statue in the world of anything, or so I'm told. It's 108M tall. Guan Yin is the Chinese version of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Avalokitesvara was a man, and GuanYin is a woman, so go figure. The Dalai Lama is also believed, in Tibetan Buddhism, to be a reincarnation of Avalokitesvera. The lineage of Dalai Lamas and the Chinese Goddess of mercy and compassion are all based on, and supposed to be reincarnations of, the same Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.
I stayed at Nanshan too late, because I was doing timelapses, and missed all the buses and taxis and everything back to Sanya, and ended up walking alone at night on the highways of Hainan in the middle of nowhere. It would have taken me probably at least 8 hours to walk back to Sanya on that highway. Eventually some guy appeared comletely out of the dark and took me with him to borrow his friend's motorcycle and drove me to the nearest bus stop, which is at a place they call the end of the earth....Awesome.
Anyway, the panning timelapses were made with a Canon IXUS 950 IS (A.K.A. SD850 IS) using the "timelapse movie" mode. The camera was attached to a kitchen timer and that's how I panned the camera. The other timelapses and photos were taken with a Nikon D60. All shot on August 16, 2008 (which was also "Ghost Day" BTW)
The music is a song called "Revolve" by His Boy Elroy, apparently free to use (CC license), you can listen to it or download it here: ccmixter.org/files/hisboyelroy/430
This was on Explore April 9 2009.
Photo COPYRIGHT 2008/2009 Django Malone
Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone (Timelapse)
Some timelapses I made while I was at Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone near Sanya, Hainan, China. The statue is of Guan Yin, the Bodhisattva of mercy and compassion in Chinese Buddhism. A Bodhisattva is (if I even remember correctly), in Mahayana Buddhism, somebody who has achieved enlightenment and died but chosen to remain in the cycle of Samsara and continue to be reincarnated to help others until everybody can exit samsara all together. Guan Yin in Japanes is Kannon or something like that, I don't know how to properly write Japanese in our alphabet, but anyway, I'm told the Canon camera company takes its name from the Bodhisattva. This statue at Nanshan is the tallest statue of Guan Yin in the world, and the fourth tallest statue in the world of anything, or so I'm told. It's 108M tall. Guan Yin is the Chinese version of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Avalokitesvara was a man, and GuanYin is a woman, so go figure. The Dalai Lama is also believed, in Tibetan Buddhism, to be a reincarnation of Avalokitesvera. The lineage of Dalai Lamas and the Chinese Goddess of mercy and compassion are all based on, and supposed to be reincarnations of, the same Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.
I stayed at Nanshan too late, because I was doing timelapses, and missed all the buses and taxis and everything back to Sanya, and ended up walking alone at night on the highways of Hainan in the middle of nowhere. It would have taken me probably at least 8 hours to walk back to Sanya on that highway. Eventually some guy appeared comletely out of the dark and took me with him to borrow his friend's motorcycle and drove me to the nearest bus stop, which is at a place they call the end of the earth....Awesome.
Anyway, the panning timelapses were made with a Canon IXUS 950 IS (A.K.A. SD850 IS) using the "timelapse movie" mode. The camera was attached to a kitchen timer and that's how I panned the camera. The other timelapses and photos were taken with a Nikon D60. All shot on August 16, 2008 (which was also "Ghost Day" BTW)
The music is a song called "Revolve" by His Boy Elroy, apparently free to use (CC license), you can listen to it or download it here: ccmixter.org/files/hisboyelroy/430
This was on Explore April 9 2009.
Photo COPYRIGHT 2008/2009 Django Malone