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Challenge: Extended Free Study 2025-04 (Extended Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: OM System OM-1
Lens: Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
Location: Borobudur, Indonesia
Date: May 12, 2025
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 3200
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Emotive, Travel
Date Uploaded: May 14, 2025

 We were lucky to happen 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 gather for prayers and meditation, and we were among them.(had to buy white pants on the market to blend in). The ceremony ends with a massive floating paper lanterns release. It is a spectacular, unforgettable sight. In the hindsight, I could (and perhaps should've) combine this photo with a photo or two of flying lanterns, taking advantage of the extended rules, would've been a more striking image ). Alas, didn't occur to me in the haste of travel.

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Place: 2 out of 29
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Views since voting: 151
Views during voting: 44
Votes: 27
Comments: 4
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 05/22/2025 06:47:59 PM
Wow! I can't imagine being present at something like this. you are so lucky to travel the world. Well done, Congratulations!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/20/2025 10:53:27 AM
Excellent composition.
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 05/18/2025 07:01:37 PM
What a lovely emotional scent. the leading lines of the light lead to the large template in the distance. There is a bit of extra noise in the upper sky. As a minor nit there is some odd clouds/haloing on either side of the temple that could be cloned out if you are into that type of post processing.
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 05/18/2025 05:31:42 PM
Remind me: Which issue of National Geographic was this on again?

Congrats. Stunning capture.
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