Tibet and Peru Sacred Mountains Show 12apr11

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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)

ISO 450, 1/400 at F/11


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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

ISO 250, 1/250 at F9, 120 mm


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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

ISO250, 1/250th at F/8


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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)
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Tibet and Peru Sacred Mountains Show 12apr11