Miscellanea

• "How are you?" Hope it'll brighten your day a little. (Wish I could say I'm the author)
• "Perfect" picture
• Trump Tower - an attempt of impressionistic photography (1.7Mb)
• I would like to share with you my quite unusual experience of watching Tibetan monks making a Mandala out of colored sand (If you want more information about Mandalas - Google them, there is quite a lot on them on the Web - and also a lot of images). The monks spent three full days making a beauty that on the fourth day was blown to wind. Another monk was making an amazing plaster decoration, name of which, due of my ignorance, I don't know. (Gena? Elda? Anybody? Do you know the name for it?) It all happened on the campus of Lawrenceville School in mid-January, 2003. The pictures you see are taken on January 15 and 16, second and third days of making the Mandala.
  Foreseeing your questions and comments - the white specks that you see on some of the pictures are reflections from grains of sand. Also, the light was not great (it was also uneven, which you can see on a shot from above). Since I didn't want to use my flash (you'd see a screenful of white specks if I did), I had to increase my "film's" sensitivity (for curious, I used ISO400), which caused a visible grain. Still, the Mandala was so beautiful and the experience was so unusual that I decided to post the pictures, specks, grain and all.
  The pictures are in chronological order.
  
  • Making the Mandala (0.9Mb)
  • Making the Mandala (1.1Mb)
  • The Mandala. Closeup detail (2.4Mb)
  • The Mandala. Closeup detail (2.3Mb)
  • The Mandala. Center detail (1.9Mb)
  • The Mandala. View from above (1.1Mb)
  • Conversation (0.8Mb)