Stoking the Funeral Pyre

toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
edited April 19, 2020 in Other Cool Shots

Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu Nepal... Open pit cremation ...

Rags

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  • alan2934alan2934 Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    I like the way you left the smoke haze in rather than editing it out. I think it looks very realistic.

    Interesting photo that tells a story unique to the 3rd world.
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins

    Thanks to some of your prior work, Rags, this scene is not as disruptive to me as it once was. I'm curious.....are the deceased encased in any sort of garb or shroud prior to starting the process.?

    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins

    Thanks Tom and Allen...

    It is a standard Hindu burial..

    The govt wants to outlaw open pits in favor of electric cremation (air pollution is a major factor)

    The body is wrapped in cotton and there is a procedure for preparing the fuel (butter is also used???)...

    Some procedures are religiously symbolic.... (and defy western reason)

    Rags
  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins

    @torags said:
    Thanks Tom and Allen...

    It is a standard Hindu burial..

    The govt wants to outlaw open pits in favor of electric cremation (air pollution is a major factor)

    The body is wrapped in cotton and there is a procedure for preparing the fuel (butter is also used???)...

    Some procedures are religiously symbolic.... (and defy western reason)

    Additionally ... the structural elements of the shot are from holding up steel roofs (for cremations during the monsoon season)

    Rags
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