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Love the response to yesterday’s pic. Thanks, all 
Moira, I never even thought about the scale of the bells being a mystery! I’m glad you put that out there in yesterday’s comments. V1 here reveals the scale.
Actually, V1 was a hilarious moment. Claire was down on one knee about to take a pic of the door. I was taking a pic of Claire taking the door. She’d just about composed the shot. Just then, this lady comes along…and gently and serenely rings the 3 bells from left to right. I kept a straight face but inside I was howling at Claire's shot being momentarily sideswiped. Now obviously this is something some temple goers do as they leave the temple. Maybe it’s kinda like dipping your fingers in holy water as you leave a church? And obviously temple goers should be able to go about their stuff…so I didn’t think she was being inconsiderate or anything. I just thought, “Oh man…talk about getting in the shot!” 
V2 is another shot of the door…and these are all the door pics I have 
Tomorrow…a pic of the floor and the ceiling as we enter the temple.
Andrew
| Camera: | Olympus E-PL1  Check out Olympus Image Space! |
| Lens: | Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | The Claire Visit...Part 7 |
| Username: | 
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| Uploaded: | 9 Jan 2013 - 12:17 PM |
| Tags: | Bells, Humour / fun, Landscape / travel, Photo journalism, Portraits / people, Temple |
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Good to see the scale, and your suggested explanation. I think the bells may well be a holy water equivalent; bells do seem to be important in Buddhist tradition and ritual. I have just located this quote:
Quote: According to Tibetan Buddhism, ringing the bell represents an offering to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas in order to accumulate positive karma. Also, the bell represents wisdom, so ringing the bell is the sound of wisdom which purifies confusion.
Q.E.D.???
Regards
Bill
.... the bells in the Burmese temples had to be struck an odd number of times as well. Excellent scale on this door, Andrew.
Dave
Looking at yesterday's V1 I started off imagining this as a little chest of drawers for earrings, trinkets...
How wrong was that!
Moira
It's so good to have things explained. I wonder if the bells had different tones.
Claire seems to have the same kind of photo luck as me. I spent the entire day at Valencia's City of Arts & Sciences having my shots invaded by oblivious idiots who were posing for 'me at' shots. Claire's bad luck makes for a great candid shot though and I love version 2.
v2 is very beautiful.
where I come from, somebody once called them dark stumblers.. these shady characters that stumble into your picture
These definitely ring my bell Andrew, the inclusion of the people adds so much and places these images in the travel photography category
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