This was my entry:
As I wrote in the photo description, we happened to be in Java during Waisak, or Buddha's birthday, the biggest Buddhist celebration of the year. There it is organized on the grounds of Borobudur, the world's biggest Buddhist temple (you can see it in the distance). Tens of thousands of people dressed in white gathered for prayers and meditation, and we were among them. We were all seated in hundreds of regular rows, and each one of us had a burning candle at our feet. The ceremony ended with a massive hot-air paper lanterns release. It is a spectacular, unforgettable sight.
I was really torn between my entry and another shot taken some minutes later, when the festival participants started launching these hot air lanterns in the night sky above Borobudur. Here is thaat photo (and I have a whole bunch of similar ones, of course)
So I eventually decided to enter the first one. It didn't occur to me at the time that in this Expert challenge, I could've just combined the two and produce something like this
That could've scored better, would you agree?
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