The Manuha Temple was built in 1059 by a king held captive in Bagan. Its sad reclining Buddha figure, cramped within the narrow confines of the pagoda, is said to symbolize the distressed soul of the defeated king. It would have been impossible to get this much of the head and shoulders of this massive sculpture into my frame without using a 24mm wideangle lens. The pagoda was a long narrow building with barely enough space for small passage running the length of the figure. Another advantage of a wideangle lens is that it is able to emphasize the form of the subject itself by stressing either its horizontal or vertical thrust, depending, of course, upon how the lens is oriented. In this case, I use the wideangle in its horizontal orientation. A reclining Buddha figure is strongly horizontal subject -- a good match of form and content.