golden glow. Also went back to Phil's image of the same temple, it is always interesting to see what two different photographers make of the same setting.
Thanks, Tim, for linking this image to one that I made on the same visit to this Stupa. I've also posted that image here on page in my "Memories in Metal and Stone" gallery at:http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/40199357/original
It is interesting that neither of us made the mistake of trying to get the entire stupa into the frame. It would have made a very cluttered image because of the huge scale of this structure. We each abstracted it, and featured different approaches to handling those wonderful shadows. Your vertical image is a golden birthday cake of vertical rhythms, punctuated by those tilted shadows that add a horizontal counterpoint. My horizontal image lacks the upward thrust and instead spreads out to embrace the statue of a Laotian king within its rhythms. As Lara points out in her comment under my image, the king's hat, which comes to a point goes one way, and the shadows of the pointed towers go another. Each image expresses the gilded glory of Vientiane's prime attraction in a strikingly different way, and each is typical of our own styles as well.