>Wordless Wednesday #33: Rural saleswoman
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>Photo Hunt #17: I Spy
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Okay, I am posting my Photo Hunt entry this early to make up for last week. I was meaning to post one but somehow got lost amidst the weekend frenzy, plus I have friends visiting. This week’s theme, I have to say, is one of Photo Hunt’s most challenging themes. One of the PH participants suggested this theme for us participants to shoot a picture of something hidden for the viewer to find. So here’s my take:
Go get your spyglasses or magnifying lenses and explore the picture a la Lara Croft of the movie, the Tomb Raider. Tell me what you can see in this picture. Can you make anything of it? Click the picture and select large size for your viewing pleasure 😀
I will post on Monday a close up of one of the spires.
Till then, ta-ta. Happy hunting, and have a great weekend!
Update:
The photo above is of the Bayon Temple, one of the popular temples inside the Angkor Wat complex. It was built in the late 12th century or early 13th century as the official state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII. The Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman’s capital, Angkor Thom. From afar, as you can see in the photo above, it looks nothing but stones jutting out to the sky.
Click here for a larger view.
But up close, one is mesmerized by the mysticism and the enigmatic expression surrounding the images. Angkor scholars said that that the images have an uncanny resemblance to the King Jayavarman VII.
For those who might want to know more on the temples of Bayon, here’s a good starting point.
>Wordless Wednesday #32 – Apsaras and warriors of the Khmer empire
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These stone carvings of apsaras and warriors are found in the walls and temples of Angkor. Apsaras are supernatural beings in the form of young and voluptuous young women and were said to be heavenly dancers. Click here to know more on the once-great Khmer empire.
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>Wordless Wednesday #31: Table for two, please!
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>Photo Hunt # 15: Wooden
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Hi guys. I am finally back again, and this time I am posting my entry for this week’s Photo Hunt. This week’s theme is “wooden”. It reminds me of the song “Wooden Heart” by the Bizarre Love Triangle in the 90s, if I am not mistaken.
But I digress now. Here is my take for this week’s theme:
The wooden cells of Tuol Sleng Prison:
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum used to be a high school in the 70s but was transformed into the infamous prison and interrogation center called the Security Prison 21, or S-21, during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Classrooms were divided and made into crude prison cells (see above photo). Survivors of S-21 describe the horrors that they and countless others had suffered while in prison. Today, these wooden cells still bear signs of cruelty and torture; it stand as witness to the many atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. In my 8 years here in Cambodia, I have visited it twice, and that’s because my friends were here and I had to take them around. Visiting Tuol Sleng is not for the faint-hearted. Those who were brave enough to visit left with a heavy heart.
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