The Silent Temple of Zhangjiajie

Pinned on July 23, 2012 at 9:38 PM by Joyce Kennedy

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The Silent Temple of Zhangjiajie

This location is not exact in the GPS. When you go into the main park of Zhangjiajie, there is a path that goes straight and one that goes to the right. This is the one to the right. About a quarter mile into the walk, you come across this place.

I worked on this photo in the HDR Video Tutorial at www.StuckInCustoms.com/hdr-video-tutorial . this was a good example of one of those mixed-light situations. It’s so easy and wonderful to experience in person, but so difficult to capture otherwise.

I took this in the middle of a serious trek in Zhangjiajie, deep in the southern part of China. It was one of the hardest single-day treks of my life. This part in the lowland forest was not too tough because it was relatively flat. There were little path problems here and there, but nothing too major. Most of the problems involved walking up and down these bitches. I probably should not call them that, but, honestly, when you are walking up on down them, it’s one of the words that keeps popping into your mind.

In a single day, I walked up and down those things twice, each time passing through these lowland forests… this was the calm before the storm of the ascent, and this little temple brought me some temporary peace.

Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.


Comments

Yathárth says:

Beautiful .. Also comment #1

TheFella says:

This is one of my favourite ones! Really good pov.

*HSF* says:

Gorgeous!

brian.ball60 says:

WoW really love this :) cool pov…

toƒer says:

beautiful composition.

espressoDOM says:

Very cinematic angle

ibn al khatab says:

great capture my friend!

StGrundy says:

The wide-angle really makes it look like everything is being pulled upward. Very cool!

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grumpy old bag 2 says:

Very good shot.

mimmopellicola says:

wonderful capture :O

kpspap95 says:

Stunning shot.

Ali Alsayegh *Wikielia* says:

so beautiful !!

Omri Suissa says:

suppereb

Dr Anto Youssef says:

I love the composition and the vertical effect!

NCSphotography says:

wicked cool man! love the effectq

Marcelo Cerri Rodini says:

Great perspective

tara moayed says:

Love the perspective. it makes the structure look GIANT. nicely done!

Nikographer [Jon] says:

Like it, but the left side looks like fail. Blur, ghost, mis-alignment.

carolOnline says:

One of my faves of the many you have shared (all amazing), yet I find what at leat I can not identify on the structure that seems to be a glare a bit distracting.

♫ Lion ♫ says:

Nice

swarat_ghosh says:

Wow, an awesome Photo, it really deserves Explore!!!
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A.G. Photographe says:

très très beau boulot ♥


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shutterbug in me says:

Wow!!!! !~

RkRao says:

. . . . .That’s So Beautiful ! Outstanding !

Have a Wonderful Day

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Vincent Lin (L.V.) says:

nice shot ….

dreamer@desh says:

what a picture!

Jeka23 says:

Wonderful

BugInMyShutter says:

Amazing shot, such great colours and composition. I want to try HDR so much.

yeoldeblackhippie says:

beautiful

foqiazafar says:

. . . excellent image well done ~

stpauliesgirl(so busy but trying to catch up) says:

Ummmmm, so amazing!!!

Hurricane Lola says:

wow, gorgeous.

JGo9 says:

I love teh angle and the framing.

I-SEEN-IT RubenS says:

nice shot ! well captured !

LifeLover4 says:

Beautiful work! Congrats!



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