Hanoi, Vietnam
The Altar of Confucious inside the Temple of Confucious, located in The Temple of Literature, Hanoi. Just like the name, too big to convey a real sense of this place through a picture, so just a sliver here.
From what I’m reading right now, this is the oldest architectural complex in Hanoi, being built in 1070 during the Ly Dynasty. Ha, …about four times as old as my country. I just wonder how many sticks of incense came before these…
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Mannainthemothercity
July 4, 2011 at 7:32 am
Beautiful pic. Being in the Temple of Confucius must make you realise how small your personal history is in relation to the rest of the world. Entire kingdoms and dynasties have risen and fallen even before we became the smallest droplets in the river of time.
InsideJourneys
July 4, 2011 at 8:29 pm
1070? Wow! That is a long time!
Very humbling.
Thanks for sharing.
Marcia
Jane
July 6, 2011 at 9:19 pm
I remember the temple! Love the perspective on the incense. In temples like these, I keep trying to capture the smoke rising for the incense, not very successfully, I admit.
Bama
July 12, 2011 at 11:22 am
Hey John, where’ve you been? still waiting for your other stories..
happypoppeye
July 13, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Hey Bama …just super busy the last few weeks – they are coming!!!
John
docgelo
July 12, 2011 at 10:34 pm
this is beauty in simple things.
i found art in the smoke from the incense that you captured.
Nate
July 15, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Hey John whats going on? I realize I’ve dissapeared from WP for a while haha so its been forever. Just wanted to drop by and say this is an awesome photo! Love the curls of smoke and the color of the already used incense sticks.
I believe you might have a much earlier post on this, so I’m going to run a search for it, but if not, I wanted to ask, which lense do you use on your SLR for your landscape travel pics? I’m going to be heading to Peru in a couple months and I’m considering finally making the camera investment that we talked about oh so long ago.
Thanks man, its been forever, I’m going to have to catch up on your travels.
Nate
happypoppeye
July 24, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Hey Nate …same ol’. I haven’t been on much lately either …just too busy, but still have about 10000 pics and 1000 stories to post
…first time on the incense sticks too.
A lot of the pics were taken with the Nikkor 18-200, yet for this one and a lot of my Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Japan pics, I used the 35 1.8. Great little lens …and cheap.
I’ll be back!!!
John
enchantedbluetravelingbunny
July 28, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Such a beautiful picture.
Lu
July 30, 2011 at 8:17 am
Hi John, I have just nominated you for a 7 Links award – to see what this is about, please read here:
http://theunwittingtraveller.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/my-7-links-a-review/
Hope all is well – I’m also in the queue of people awaiting your return to posting
Lu