Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great to see this famous festival through your eyes. I find that especially Spiritual Cleansing 2 give a good impression of the enormous scale of the event, and I love the portraits of the holy men at the end. Hell, I love them all but these are the ones that caught my eye. So, now you can sin freely for the next, is it 12 years? Good for you :-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jun 13, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > I finally got around to finishing editing my Kumbh Mela photographs. > The first few photographs document our going out to take the holy bath > at the meeting point of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna, called Sangam > (means confluence in Sanskrit). It was a very auspicious day called > Vasant Panchami, and in spite of very iffy weather, the estimated > numbers of pilgrims who had a dip on that day was supposed to be 7-10 > million. A bath during this period at this spot is supposed to wash > off all your earthly sins: > > Starting Point: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-136.jpg.html > > First View: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-223.jpg.html > > Bathing Ghats: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-242.jpg.html > > Sangam: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-250.jpg.html > > Boat Boy: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-262.jpg.html > > Bath: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-305.jpg.html > > Spiritual Cleansing: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-315.jpg.html > > Spiritual Cleansing 2: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-333.jpg.html > > After the Dip: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-340.jpg.html > > Unbroken Lines: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130215-361.jpg.html > > Te next set is from the tented village that is put up for forty days > to house millions, during a brief period of sunshine in an otherwise > wet and soggy trip: > > Pilgrims: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-678.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-464.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-489.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-492.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-575.jpg.html > > A little pot session: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-652.jpg.html > > Sadhus (Holy Men): > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-476.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-667.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/kumbh/Kumbh_2013-20130217-674.jpg.html > > Please see LARGE > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome > > For what it is worth, as this was a topic of discussion recently on > the LUG, the whole series taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1 and 18-55mm > lens. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >