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Photos from the sacred mountains ofTibet, & Peru
Ron Anderson, April 12, 2011
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My first memory, at age 3, was seeing giraffes and Mt. Kilimanjaro(Tanzania) from the back of a truck on route to Ethiopia in 1944.
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Photo taken at age 9 in Ethiopian central plateau, about 8,000 feet.
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4With my family (like the Trapp family in Sound of Music) at Witterhorn Mountain in Switzerland, 1953
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My favorite mountain in high school in Washington State, Mt. Rainier
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My favorite mountain from travel to professional meetings, Mt. Fuji, Japan
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Holy Cross Mountain as seen while skiing at Vail
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My favorite mountain in Minnesota: Buck Hill,where I was on Ski patrol during the 1980s
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Mountains treated as
symbols of the sacred
Physical links to the cosmos from earth
Sources of power and protection from enemies
Sources of beauty and majesty
High mountains are cruel: lack of air, freezing, highlyunpredictable weather
Established traditions for pilgrimages, monasteries Revered as deities and as sites for human sacrifices
They are embodiments of humanitys highest ideals and
aspirations (from Berbaum, Sacred Mountains of the World, 1998)
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Tibet
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Tibet
Travel from Kathmandu (Nepal), at 5,000 ft. to Lhasa, Tibet at almost 12,000
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Mt. Everest lies on the NepalTibet border.People from both countries refer to it as Goddess.
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Mt. Kailash in northern Tibet is treated as sacred by fourReligions. Climbing it is sacrilegious but walking its 32-mile
base is believed to forgive a lifetime of sins.
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Almost nothing but barley will grow in Tibet, but most Tibetans are farmers. They have planted100s of thousands of willow trees in the valleys for erosion control and firewood. Unlike theRockies, the mountains have no trees.Tibetans have dark reddish skin, burned by the cruel sun at 12,000+ feet altitude.Cars are rare. Tiny tractors are common.
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Ganden Monastery at 15,000 ft near the top of Ganden Mt., Tibet
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Photos taken at 15,000 feet at the Ganden Monastery, 2,000 feet about village.A 2-mile path circles the mountain top. I took the pilgrimage and barely survived.
Both photos atISO 100F/5.6
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17I thought this was my best shot from the mountain top,but it doesnt get ahs. How could it have been improved?
ISO 2001/50th at f/9
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18Solar heating in the mountains was commonplace.
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Outside the Ganden Monastery (at 14,500 feet) building for dinning & meditation.This is surprisingly flimsy footwear for night time temps below freezing in early summer
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Everything inside monasteries and shrines was always very dark; flash was a must.
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Lighting Yak Butter Candles.Both pictures taken without flashin dark Monastery .I tried a lot of compositions untilgetting the close up with hand.
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Monk meditating with aid of Yak butter candles
Strobe flash, ISO400, 1/60th at F/4
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Representations of spirits, both good and evil, were everywhere insidereligious rooms. Most were gold plated with many jewels. Glare isnearly impossible to avoid.
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24An exercise in propagation which accounts for the huge number of gold covered statues.
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ISO400, 1/160 at F/13
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Lhasa, Tibet, home of the Portola at 12,000 feet.Guess what happened to our bodies and our computers.
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Photographing the Portola how much difference an angle perspective
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The Portola from the Jokhang Monastery and Square in LhasaPhoto atISO 2001/250 at F11
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29Typical father and child strolling in Jokhang Square in Lhasa, Tibet
ISA200, 1/160 at F/9
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At gray dawn, Tibetans stoking fires with willow branches
in front of Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa
ISO1600, 1/1000 at F3.5
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Meditating with prayer wheel at dawn in Jokhang, LhasaThis photo was selected for advertisements of
the Colorado Mountain Center Tours.
ISO 1600, 1/16-th at F/6,3, 300mm
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Man circulatingJokhang Monastery
with prayer wheelIn Lhasa
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Monks in debate ritual at Sera Monastery in Lhasa, TibetISO400, 1/160that F/6.3 Flash
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Boy monks playing gyalings at Mindroling Monastery in Tibet
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100 meters away, other boy monks playing long bass horns at Mindroling Monastery in Tibet
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Seventy-year old nun at Sang-ngag
Zimche Nunnery in Tsedang, Tibet
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Peru, Sacred Valley &Machu Picchu
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Peru, Sacred Valley &Machu Picchu
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Lima, Peru (sea level)
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Ron the photographer in Lima
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Cusco, Peru (11,000 feet)Former capitol of Inca Nation of some 13 million people in 16th century
ISO 250
1/350 at F/918mm
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Closer Up, Cusco Main Square
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Sacred ValleySo named for rich river soil, famous for 100s of varieties of corn and
beans
ISO 1001/320 at F/9
18mm
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Moray Agricultural Experiment Stationwith complex irrigation & terraces to take advantages
of variations in humidity and temperature
ISO 100, 1/250 at F/9, 18mm
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alternate composition
Which do you like best?
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Another Ag. Research Station at Moray
Note terraces are about 5 ft high.
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Girl enjoying sun in Sacred Valleytown
ISO 640. 1/500 at f11
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Sacsayhuaman CeremonialGrounds
showing giant rock masonry
I like to capture photographers in a composition to
help tell a story about what a place means to people.
Machu Picchu
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Machu PicchuHidden at the edge of the jungle at 10,000 feet
from 1500s until 1910, it was a sacred city of about 3,000
ISO 800, 1/250th
at F/9
M h Pi h
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Machu PicchuThe other side of the mountain
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Machu PicchuFrom the mountain top looking down to the Urabumba River
Clouds or river gorge? Which composition do you like the best?
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More light, still mysterious
ISO400, 1/430 at F/9
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Mysterious cloud but thats all
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Machu Picchu Peak
Which composition would you choose?Long or wide?
ISO200, 1/200 at F7.1
Good Choice
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Good Choice
A h i f h k
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Another view of the peak
A d h i h i
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And another with river
A tifi i l R t ti f M h Pi h
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Artificial Reconstructions of Machu Picchu
J Si i t M h Pi h
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Japanese Singing at Machu Picchu
Fi l h t t M h Pi h
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Final shot atop Machu Picchu
Sacred Trail
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Sacred TrailTo build Machu Picchu, laborers ran with sacks of rocks
on their backs for as far as 25 miles
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Machu Picchu flowers & birds thrive from thejungle climate on one side of the mountain
View of Pisac Valley in Southern Sacred
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View of Pisac Valley in Southern SacredValley
Which composition do you like best, long or wide?
R i f S d Cit i Pi
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Remains of Sacred City in Pisac
Remains of Sacred City in Pisac
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Remains of Sacred City in Pisac ---
less sky, more mountain
S d Cit i i Pi
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Sacred City ruins in Pisac
ISO250, 1/180 at F/8
Mother & Child in Sacred City above Pisac
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Mother & Child in Sacred City above Pisac
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Mountains treated assymbols of the sacred
Physical links to the cosmos from earth
Sources of power and protection from enemies
Sources of beauty and majesty
High mountains are cruel: lack of air, freezing, highlyunpredictable weather
Established traditions for pilgrimages, monasteries
Revered as deities and as sites for human sacrifices
They are embodiments of humanitys highest ideals and
aspirations (from Berbaum, Sacred Mountains of the World, 1998)
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A Mountain Feast -
Eastern Alaska Glaciers, April 2011
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Eastern Alaska Mountains & Glaciers, April 2011(taken with little Epson G11 on automatic
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For further information : Ron Anderson(rea@umn edu)
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]