Photo of the day

Photo of the day Monday January 3, 2011

Public Cremation - (Aryagath in Pashupatinath Temple) Kathmandu, Nepal 10/2010 Canon 450D - F4.5, 200

Recently discovered silver effects, a program that lets you mimic gelatin silver prints in photoshop or light room.

Notes from Nepal

Pashupatinath cremations...

I suppose I will keep this one short as a picture says a thousand words.

The cremations in Pashupatinath take place on the Bhagmati River, a Nepali tributary of the Ganges. Although other cremation process take the bone and pound it to a fine dust, I did not see this happen at Pashupatinath, but rather the dust and fragment going directly into the river. Children wash and play in the river as the remains of the bodies are burned the returned to the river.