Swoyambhu has always been one of my most favourite places to visit since I grew up in this area and it’s a very holy and peaceful place for me.
It’s also a great place to take photos – photos of pigeons, monkeys, butter lamps, monks, etc. and so I ended up going there again in the last week of 2013 (yes this album is more than 3 months old).
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- A monkey looking around for his next target
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- Keeping an eye out
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- Fun fact: a group of pigeons is called a “kit” or a “loft”
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- Doesn’t take much to make these birds take off
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- When it comes to food these birds don’t give a hoot
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- A young girl lights a large wick to offer to the shrine
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- Just continuing with the idea of capturing people reading newspapers
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- Buddhas
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- Got a close up of some monkey grooming
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- This mother & child scampered down this metal rod and paused for my camera
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- Kinda reminds me of Mortal Kombat 🙂
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- This sculpture of Buddha’s face was very well made
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- Loved the contrast in the size of this statue and the butter lamp
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- This caretaker climbed all the way to the top without any safety harness
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- I caught this guy staring right back at me
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- A monkey ponders the mysteries of life
For more information about Swoyambhu look up this Wikipedia article.
awesome collection of pictures… great compositions, POV and effects (Y)
Thanks bro, please keep on visiting for more photos.. I have an album from Kirtipur coming soon 🙂
wow! that sounds great… Kirtipur is also a nice place with lots of interesting things.. hope to see some great pictures… and pls do visit my pages too… ur suggestions and feedback could be encouraging for me 😉
http://www.500px.com/bidhanraj
Sure bro 🙂