[Leica] Triplicane
Jayanand Govindaraj
jayanand at gmail.com
Sat May 4 21:21:21 PDT 2024
After a break of a couple of years we went to the Brahmotsavam of 6th
century Parthasarathy Temple at Triplicane in Chennai last week, on one of
the relatively minor days to beat the crowd. The festival, which lasts a
week, entails giving the deity of Lord Vishnu an airing around the extended
area surrounding the temple, on various ceremonial palanquins carried by
the devotees, culminating in a ride on a huge chariot also pulled around by
the devotees. Not being a particularly religious person, I never fail to
get amazed and awestruck by the amount of pain and effort that devotees
expend in order to express their deep belief in the religion of their
choice.
This is a fairly large submission, so please bear with me.
All photographs taken with the Nikon Z8 and the Nikkor Z 135mm f1.8S
"Plena", arguably the best portrait lens I have ever used in 60+ years of
photography.
Firstly, the pain, effort and fatigue of deep, extreme belief:
Pain:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-259-Edit.jpg.html
Effort:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-648-Edit.jpg.html
Fatigue:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-657-Edit.jpg.html
Sweat:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-670-Edit.jpg.html
Push:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-175-Edit.jpg.html
Rest:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-466-Edit.jpg.html
The rest are all photographs of people. To start with, some neighbourly
mingling:
Conversation:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-817-Edit.jpg.html
Interaction:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-531-Edit.jpg.html
There is something about making a kolam that induces people to sway
gracefully:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-033-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-1186-Edit.jpg.html
Old people watch the procession from their houses - it always reminds me of
being caged:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-393-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-506-Edit.jpg.html
Young devotees carry ceremonial umbrellas, but I was limited by my lens
into making portraits of them:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-924-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-1019-Edit.jpg.html
Next comes two friends of mine, one a participant, and the other
photographing, just like us:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-705-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-073-Edit.jpg.html
A couple who rumbled my photographing them:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-519-Edit.jpg.html
Finally, a bunch of street portraits:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-946-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-1106-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-687-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-076-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-091-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-437-Edit.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/TCane/Triplicane-20240428-305-Edit.jpg.html
Please see LARGE
Criticism and comments, as always, welcome
Cheers
Jayanand
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