Digital Photography Experience
I follow this group and really appreciate the ideas and knowledge that Rick Sammon, Juan Pons and the rest of their team share through their website. So it is pretty cool to have the photograph below recognized as a favourite from their DPE Flickr pool this afternoon. Thanks guys!
Buddhist nuns in prayer at the Sagaing Hills convent
Wow…What color. Very nice. Where was this?
August 19, 2010 at 6:07 am
Hi Dave,
This was in central Myanmar last February. The convent is in the heart of the Sagaing Hills, on the opposite bank of the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) River from Amarapura.
The area has a large number of Buddhist monasteries and pagodas, all lined along the ridge of the hills and spilling down their flanks.
A really incredible place. Our guide took us to this convent and after speaking with the head of the order, the entire community of nuns came together and said a prayer for us as travelers, welcoming us. I shot this from the second story of their dormitory as they were chanting outside in the courtyard.
August 19, 2010 at 7:41 am