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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Camelidae
Genus:Lama
Species:L. glama
Reserva de Fauna - Parque Santa Teresa, Rocha, Uruguay
Oygen Chholing is tucked away in a remote valley in the centre of the kingdom of Bhutan. There are no shops or street lights, just a series of isolated farms and tiny hamlets. The small village of Oygen Chholing with its delapidated palace and temple has maybe a dozen houses. It is simply marvellous and we all feel really privileged to be here, experiencing a taste of what it must be like to live off the land.
We are raising prayer flags and are invited to write on them before they are stuck into the ground around a bright white chorten (stupa or monument). But a prayer flag is something to be taken seriously and a visiting high lama agrees to bless the occasion with a formal ceremony.
Part of the ceremony involves smoke which wafts in and around the lama as he chants and rings his bells. I listen to his deep intonation as his silhouette appears and disappears behind swirls of smoke. It is simply surreal and the D800E I have borrowed from Nikon is doing overtime. I shoot around 50 frames.
When reviewing my files, not all are sharp. The smoke fools the autofocus system and I find some of the frames with the best composition and smoke patterns are unsharp where it matters. Other images with less smoke are tack sharp as the autofocus system does its job. With 20:20 hindsight, I should have flicked to manual focus, but things were happening very quickly. There might have been 50 frames, but the smoke was only 'happening' for a minute or two.
However, there was a solution.
I grabbed a second frame where there was less smoke and the lama was tack sharp. As both were taken from the same position and the lama didn't move too much, it was relatively simple to drop the 'sharp' lama over the blurred one. I then added a little contrast to the scene and lightened up the lama's face, just a touch, and the result is what you see at the top of the page!
Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata.
I folded them from a new paper called Lokhu paper(it has a very nice texture of animal fur) sizes 24*24 cm and 35*35 cm. I used 2 colors of this paper to get the nice colorchanges.
Diagrams from Tanteidan convention book 19.
This lama design has a 3D shape and the bellly can be closed too.
This great paper(and many other great paper which I will fold from soon)will be available in Nicolas Terry's origami-shop www.origami-shop.com in the Autumn.
I met this friendly Buddhist Lama who welcomed travelers, and lived with a small group of his followers high on a remote Himalayan mountain location, overlooking the spectacular Annapurna range in Nepal.
Lamas are spiritual leaders in Tibetan Buddhism, and many are considered to be recognised reincarnations of former monks or lamas.
They belong mainly to two separate sects, denoted by the colours of their hats; ie: the Red Hat Sect, and the Yellow Hat Sect. Lama Tershi, as you can see from this image, belongs to the Red Hat Sect, which is the older of the two. However, the most important lama of all is the Dalai Lama, who belongs to the Yellow Hat Sect.
ماشاءالله تبارك الله ,,
صباحكم / مسائكم خير ^^
طبعا راح نبتعد عن الرسميات هالمرة :)
أتمنى تعجبكم
تحياتي / شادن المهلهل
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