I like the painterly texture and color here, and the famous crack adds an incongruous dimension to the image. I was here as well when I visited Mandalay -- I posted an image of it in my smugmug gallery, where I tilted the camera to run the crack diagonally through the frame. Seehttp://pnd1.smugmug.com/gallery/4791322_vrQxY#284542065_jKJND
