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These are three images dealing with the details of portions of the paintings.

Hi Birma and Aster. Thanks for your kind comments. I would try to jot down a few observations. There is immense diversity in cultural expressions in India. We started our motorcycle journey from PanchkulaHaryana and we had a tour of about 15 days through the Himalayas. It was a circuit. From Panchku...

Thanks Mr Sury and Mr Dusty Natural colors have been used here in these paintings. Some of the paintings are more than 1000 years old. However, some might have been painted all over again by the artists of the mediaeval times. Moreover, some might also have been worked upon by the archaeology depart...

Apart from the main temple Tsug Lhakang of the monastery of Tabo which was founded in 996 A.D.,there are four subsidiary temples with their own unique and individualized paintings. The images of the three paintings given below are from the temple Serkhang (The Golden temple). The painting shows the ...

We spent most of the week studying the ancient Buddhistic sculptures and paintings in the more than 1000 years old monastery. Before we could enter the main temple we had to pay obeisance to Dwarpal, i.e., the door-keeper who is ever guarding the entrance so that no evil force may not enter and dist...

Three pictures of the Tabo Monastery dealing with the architectural elements

Thanks for your encouraging words Mr Suri and Mr Birma. Mr Suri I saw a post of yours only yesterday and from that photograph of a lake I have come to know that your hometown is Hyderabad. So I thought it proper to provide a link to an article by my husband written on the tombs of Hyderabad.--http:/...

From Nako we took the dusty road and climbed higher and higher. After sometime we crossed the Mallinga Nullah. And then the so called road started descending. Spiti was gurgling along. It had slate color. The turns were blind. Passage so narrow that two vehicles cannot cross each other. We were to r...

Shri Suri and Shri Bakubo Thanks for the feedback. My laptop seems not to give true colors and my desktop monitor which is better has got fused. However, banking upon your feedback i have tried to reduce saturation. Thanks also to Shri Bakubo. I have gone through your Indian images and found them qu...

She was proceeding towards the Buddhist monastery. She was one of the villagers who were enthusiastically painting the walls of the monastery white. With a scarf around her face in order to avoid a splash of paint on her face she was going to celebrate the coming festival wherein there would be danc...

Three more images from Nako Village Early morning we encountered this shimmering reflection in the small but ancient Nako lake. Reflection in Nako Lake.jpg Then we went into the narrow streets of the village. This boy said he won't go to school for studying. He does not like it. I told him it is goo...

These are the re-edited copies of the three pictures.
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Three more images from Nako. All taken with A77MII. The ancient Nako village. The old style houses are constructed in such a way that they remain cool in summers and warm and cozy in winter. _DSC3074 B.jpg Another kind of village down in the valley which has a little modernized structures as seen fr...

Hello JB
I like cloud formations and strip of light on land in the first picture.
Shelika

Thanks for your valuable suggestion Suri Sahib.
I have reprocessed the file.