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Incense bundles of various colors are displayed on the wall of an incense factory outside of Hue, central Vietnam.
Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts erbaut ist der Man Mo Tempel einer der ältesten Temple Hongkongs. Dieser taoistische Temple ist den Göttern Man und Mo geweiht. Außer von Touristen, Fotografen und Models wird der Tempel natürlich im Wesentlichen aufgesucht von Menschen, die sich von höheren Mächten eine positive Wendung ihres Lebens herbeiwünschen. Dies geht mit einem Gebet, Räucherstäbchen oder diesen Räucherspiralen, die man vor Ort käuflich erwirbt und an die man seinen frommen Wunsch auf einem roten Zettel anbringen darf.
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Built in the mid-19th century, the Man Mo Temple is one of Hong Kong's oldest temples. This Taoist temple is dedicated to the gods Man and Mo. Besides tourists, photographers, and models, the temple is primarily visited by people seeking a positive turn in their lives from higher powers. This can be done with prayer, incense sticks, or these incense coils, which can be purchased on site and to which one can attach one's pious wish on a red slip of paper.
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Quang Phu Cau village in Hanoi, Vietnam is famous for its century old craft of making incense. Drying incense sticks in Quang Phu Cau handicraft village. Travel and landscape concept.
Macro Mondays 'Stick' theme.
I was going to do chopsticks then at the last minute remembered I had these small lavender incense sticks and tiny holder. They burnt down much quicker than the incense sticks I've used in the past, I had to keep lighting another one before I got the shot I wanted, the most difficult part was getting a nice plume of smoke in the right position - it tended to float up too high, which would have meant I had to crop it out to fit the size limits.
The smoke is lit by shining a small led torch beam through it.
The total image measures approx 7 cm wide and 5 cm high so just gets in under the group size limits.
Incense sticks in a trinket shop; Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Buddhist devotees light incense sticks in front of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The temple houses a tooth of the Buddha, making it the most revered site in Sri Lanka. Every day thousands of white-clad pilgrims visit the Temple of the Tooth to pay their respects to the Buddha.
burning incense is a practice common to many religions. So a praying session for the hungry ghosts can't be without burning the incense sticks big or small. However from the decrease size of the incense sticks ( see my album for past years incense stick size) the wondering ghosts didn't bring much wealth to the believers.
I took a day off from work to experiment more with smoke. After several incense sticks I needed a break.
My wife bought home these Gel bead air freshener. I had never seen these before. I liked the color, so I poured it into a ball mason jar and lit it from underneath.
I realized later the only pictures I shot that day were of subjects that main purpose was to emit a sent. Nothing deep, no hidden meaning I just too lazy to go outside.
My next project will be scratch and sniff.
. . Launch !
Loy Krathong is held on the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar. In the western calendar this usually falls in November.
"Loi" means "to float". "Krathong" is a raft about a handspan in diameter traditionally made from a section of banana tree trunk although modern-day versions use specially made bread 'flowersor even styrofoam, decorated with elaborately-folded banana leaves, flowers, candles and incense sticks.
Northern Thailand has a unique addition to the Loi Krathong festival. It is the Yi Peng festival which includes launching "khom loi" later in the evening.
The khom loi (also known as "khoom fay") is a small hot air balloon made of coarse translucent paper and about the size of a large trash bag. The bags are usually white and three or four strings support the "candles / engines" that hang about half a meter below the bag. The engines are made by soaking rolls of toilet paper in wax or paraffin preparations, sliced crosswise into sections about 3 cm thick and a wick added. The engine also serves as illumination.
Launching a khom loi / khoom fay is no easy task. It is common to see several people trying to cooperate in the effort since the bag has to be held upright and steady while the air inside heats up. During that process the engine may go out, the wind may change, a string supporting the engine may break. Or someone might hold on when he was supposed to let go, or the thing may tangle in overhead lines or hang on the edge of a roof.
Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts erbaut ist der Man Mo Tempel einer der ältesten Temple Hongkongs. Dieser taoistische Temple ist den Göttern Man und Mo geweiht. Außer von Touristen, Fotografen und Models wird der Tempel natürlich im Wesentlichen aufgesucht von Menschen, die sich von höheren Mächten eine positive Wendung ihres Lebens herbeiwünschen. Dies geht mit einem Gebet, Räucherstäbchen oder diesen Räucherspiralen, die man vor Ort käuflich erwirbt und an die man seinen frommen Wunsch auf einem roten Zettel anbringen darf.
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Built in the mid-19th century, the Man Mo Temple is one of Hong Kong's oldest temples. This Taoist temple is dedicated to the gods Man and Mo. Besides tourists, photographers, and models, the temple is primarily visited by people seeking a positive turn in their lives from higher powers. This can be done with prayer, incense sticks, or these incense coils, which can be purchased on site and to which one can attach one's pious wish on a red slip of paper.
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Burning incense sticks are filling the room with swirling smoke. Thien Hau Pagoda, Cholon, Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon, Vietnam.
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Abgebrannt. Für einen letzten Traum.
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„The girl with the matches“. Fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (1845).
It is the tragic story of a little girl who sells matches in the street, freezing to death. In the later reception, the narrative was often veiled as a sentimental melodrama – but strictly speaking, it is cleverly packed sharp social criticism.
––– A little girl is sitting in the street on New Year's Eve to sell his matchboxes. It is poorly dressed and freezing, the busy citizens overlook the child and his beggars. Without having earned anything, the girl does not dare to go home and freezes between two townhouses. Desperate with cold, the girl lights one of the matches. In the light of the wood she feels as if she is sitting by a warm stove – little by little the girl ignites the other matches as well and glides into ever more beautiful dreams. Finally, she meets his grandmother and asks her to take it to heaven.
„ ... Grandmother had never been so beautiful, so tall. She took the little girl in her arms, and they flew in glory and joy so high, so high – and up there was neither cold nor hunger nor fear ... “
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„Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern“. Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (1845).
Es ist die tragische Geschichte eines kleinen Mädchens, das frierend auf der Straße Schwefelhölzchen verkauft und dabei in den Tod gleitet. In der späteren Rezeption wurde die Erzählung oft als sentimentales Rührstück verkitscht – streng genommen handelt es sich aber um geschickt verpackte scharfe Sozialkritik.
––– Ein kleines Mädchen sitzt am Silvesterabend auf der Straße, um seine Schwefelhölzchen zu verkaufen. Es ist dürftig gekleidet und friert, die beschäftigten Bürger übersehen das Kind und seine Bettelwaren. Ohne etwas verdient zu haben, wagt sich das Mädchen jedoch nicht nach Hause und harrt frierend zwischen zwei Stadthäusern aus. Verzweifelt vor Kälte zündet das Mädchen eines der Streichhölzchen an. Im Lichtschein des Hölzchens fühlt sie sich, als würde sie an einem warmen Ofen sitzen – nach und nach zündet das Mädchen auch die weiteren Streichhölzer an und gleitet so in immer schönere Träume. Schließlich begegnet es seiner Großmutter und bittet diese, es in den Himmel mitzunehmen.
„ ... Großmutter war früher nie so schön, so groß gewesen. Sie nahm das kleine Mädchen in ihre Arme, und sie flogen in Glanz und Freude so hoch, so hoch – und dort oben war weder Kälte noch Hunger, noch Angst ... “
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Ingredients: matches, two boxes as house walls, incense sticks for the smoke, concrete flooring as a road surface, lighting via bicycle rear light, LED panel and cell phone flashlight. And some attempts for the right smoke formation, which comes close to a human being ...
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Zutaten: Streichhölzer, zwei Kisten als Hauswände, Räucherstäbchen für den Rauch, Beton-Fußboden als Straßenbelag, Beleuchtung über Fahrradrücklicht, LED-Panel und Handy-Taschenlampe. Und einige Versuche für die richtige Rauchformation, die einem menschlichen Wesen nahekommt ...
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#MacroMondays 2018 / March 19 / #OnceUponATime
/ HMM to everyone!
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Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P / 1:3.5 / 55 mm
Catch The Wind
Donovan
In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty
I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind
To feel you all around me
And to take your hand
Along the sand
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind
When sundown pales the sky
I want to hide a while
Behind your smile
And everywhere I'd look, your eyes I'd find
For me to love you now
Would be the sweetest thing
T'would make me sing
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind
Another bit of Macro fun for me this afternoon, trying new things. Todays personal challenge was to try and photograph a dandelion, with smoke rising through it. Found the dandelion easy enough (Well, my wife did..). The smoke was from 3 x incense sticks underneath it. The house never smelt so good!!!
I dont own a flash, so I used a torch to light everything up. Took a few attempts, but knocked out a few images in the end that I was happy with.
Used a reflector underneath everything, to try and bounce as much light as I could onto the flower and the smoke.
A good challenge, and I learned something new.
I do however, need to get a flash sometime...maybe after I'm re-employed...Ha!
Anyhow, hope you like "Catch The Wind"
Cheers, Mike
The entrance doorway of the Chengguang Matzu temple in Magong with the censer holding incense sticks behind.
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The "creature" that stands before you arose from a smoke photography session comprised of a few burning incense sticks and off camera flash. The original image I captured was then worked a bit in post-processing, and mirrored to form this final image.
It's funny how many different abstract objects you can find in these types of pics, but this one really stuck out to me as as an old style sci-fi monster... I'm wondering if you see it that way as well?
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"Summoned from the Smoke" is a non-HDR image that was processed using a combination of ACR, Photoshop and various Topaz Labs Plugins (Adjust, Denoise AI, and Glow).
I was playing with smoke last night and gels. This was shot handheld using an LED light with a snoot and yellow gel . I love the random shapes and patterns that smoke makes. The source is from incense sticks which are blown out straight after lighting as they burn for quite a while. My submission for this weeks "Macro Mondays" theme which is Yellow.Shot on a Canon 5dmk2 and 100mm f2.8L lens
ISO 1600/ 1/250s/ f3.2
A Buddhist monk provides bowls of incenses and incense sticks in the Jokhang Temple. The Jokhang is a Buddhist temple in Barkhor Square in Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. Tibetans, in general, consider this temple as the most sacred and important temple in Tibet. It is said that you should have been there once in your life. Hasselblad 205TCC/Zeiss Planar 2,0/110mm, Kodak EPL converted to b&w, scanned with Nikon Supercoolscan 8000ED.
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Here you can see glimpses of a couple of the exquisitely decorated temples which form this large complex of temples.
Prominent in the foreground are huge containers for the burning of incense sticks.
It was once the royal temple of the Kingdom of Dali, originally built in the 9th century. At its height, the temple included 891 rooms, 11,400 Buddhist iconographies, three pavilions, and seven buildings. The temple was severely damaged by earthquakes and conflict during the rule of the Qing Dynasty, but was later rebuilt in 2005.
Small incense sticks (the box is about 6 cm. long), which I was received many years ago from someone who was in India :)
Macro Mondays - theme: "Stick"
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Incense burning is an ancient religious ritual common to Egypt, India and East Asia. In Buddhism, it is a sacred offering, a way to honor the Triple Gem of the Buddha, his Dharma and the Sangha. The burning of an incense stick resulting in fragrant smoke teaches the necessity to burn away negative qualities within oneself in order to reveal the pure self within.
I captured this at the Thien Mu Pagoda, one of the most beautiful and well-preserved religious sites in Vietnam. Photographing smoke is a difficult process, but can give some very creative results. I shot this in natural light and looked for an angle that would give me a dark background, allowing the incense sticks and smoke to stand out.
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The incense sticks being burned (in the the previous snap) were rather colourful. (and strong smelling!)
Some people use Incense sticks to make the house smell nice and I think these can be quite relaxing also.
After setting up and then using my ruler to frame for the 3 inch rule it was a case of lighting the stick and shooting several frames and then to pick a half decent one.
The colours were achieved just by sliding the white balance slider towards tungsten and the tint slider towards Magenta in camera raw.
I tried a few exposures that included the end of the stick but at 3 inches, most of the interest was outside the legal area so I just concentrated on the smoke.
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Someone gave me a box of Japanese incense sticks over 20 years ago. I burn them very rarely. Partly for sentimental reasons and partly because the scent is so heavenly, I want make the box last. (The scent is still as wonderful as ever.) I also love the box cover, shown in the background.
This is about 1.5 inches of incense stick, including the ash. Scene is about 2.25 inches across.
Check my YouTube video to see how I've taken this photograph and how to add colors in post production:
In this video I show you how to take some photographs of smoke coming from an incense stick and how to edit them adding some color using Photoshop.
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D800 CLS + SB-900 @ 1/32 straight on the leaf ( perpendicular to the camera perspective). Incense sticks burning below. Smoke trailing Coanda effect.
First time I have tried smoke photography and I can't wait to do it again. It's really fun!
Nikon D7000 F/8 1/200 sec. ISO-100 Focal length: 50mm
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Suphan Buri is an ancient town in Thailand rich in culture and historical temples. The word Suphan originates from the Sanskrit word Suvarna, meaning gold, and the word buri from Sanskrit Purī, meaning town or city. Hence the name of the province literally means City of Gold. Suphan Buri might be the site which is mentioned in very old Buddhist writings. However the first confirmed historical settlement was when the city was known as Meuang Thawarawadi Si Suphannaphumi. Its founding did take place 877-882. Wat Chi Suk Kasem is a monastery, located in Changwat Suphan Buri, Thailand, a building and grounds where a community of monks lives in seclusion.
Thai Buddhism is represented most obviously by the thousands of beautiful, ornately decorated and colorful temples in the country. Photo of a Buddha statue covered with many thin golden leafs to honour Buddha teachings taken at Wat Chi Suk Kasem in Suphan Buri.
When praying and requesting a favor to Buddha, Thai people take three incense sticks, i.e one pour the Buddha, one for the Sangha - Buddhist community, one for the Dharma - teachings of the Buddha, a flower - orchid or lotus which symbolizes the Buddhist teachings purity and a small candle - it symbolizes comprehension enlightenment. Then they lit the incense sticks, kneel three times and put the incense sticks in front of the statue. For Buddhists in Thailand, incense is an important element of worship to pay respect to Buddha.They cover the Buddha statue with a thin golden leaf to honour Buddha teachings. In case of pain, the thin golden leaf shall be stuck at the same painful location on the Buddha statue.