Stoking the Funeral Pyre

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  alan2934 Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner

  April 20, 2020

  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.

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  black mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,321 Major grins

  April 20, 2020

  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.

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  torags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins

  April 20, 2020

  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

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  torags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins

  April 20, 2020

  @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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