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Down in the Depth of my Dreams
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Laurent Laurent (designldg)
![Silver Note Writer [C: 1 W: 0 N: 31]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/n-n-s.gif) (217) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-02-02 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Exposure: f/2.8, 1/100 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-02-22 4:06 |
| Viewed: 414 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
"The oldest living city in the world".
Down in the depth of my dreams, reality fades away sometimes...
This is a picture of my friend Ray Manta who is dancing in the Trocadéro Aquarium Ballet in the heart of Paris and who came to visit me in Varanasi (Benaras) recently.
We were at Scindia Ghat where stands Shiva's mandir, my favorite temple, and Ray wanted to show me his new choregraphy on which he is working for next spring.
Shiva's temple is lying partially submerged in the holy waters of river Ganga, having fallen in as a result of the sheer weight of the ghat’s construction around 150 years ago.
But there is a legend saying that the man who had this temple being made ordered it after his mother asked him to.
After its construction he went back to her and told her then that this way he paid her back everything she did for him.
The mother became furious and said that nothing could ever paid a mother's love and she decided to curse the temple which started to bend like the tower of Pisa.
In summers during monsoon the Ganges' flood are covering most of the monument and this image might be the view which fishes can enjoy then.
(If you wonder how I made this image, it was quite simple, I mixed two pictures, one of the temple that I shot a few days ago when the waters of river Ganga where low and another picture of this Ray Manta fish that I shot at the Trocadéro Aquarium of Paris.
On Photoshop I have been playing with the layers on several modes until I get this under-water effect and I have been using the eraser for this lighting effect as well). |
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- niraj
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(2042) - [2008-02-23 19:20]
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Hello Laurent,
YOur photo intregued me a little. I really cant remember a temple underwater and a stingray in Benaras. Nice idea and very well crafted.
Actually i just went through your profile and found some really intresting shots. I must say that you have a unique take of something that we have seen very often as an indian. Hope to see more. thanks for sharing, bye.
great PP ...
the shot looks so real and unrealistic ...
fantastic job …
many TFS it
ili :o)
