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NEPAL TRIP |
Written by Rosalind Chun |
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The Kingdom of Nepal, which
is located below the Himalayas mountain range is a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual country renowned for its elegant art, colorful festivals
and traditional culture. When visitors are in the ancient heritage of palaces, temples and monasteries, they will feel as though they are
going through the time tunel back to the past. That is why this is the ideal place for both tourists and photographers.
In December, which was the beginning of winter in Nepal. Our PAS member-team led by leader of expedition group arrived in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal and started our 7 days photographic expedition. The superb art and subtle culture together with the beautiful scenery and historical monuments had provided numerous themes for our creations Firstly, we visited “Nagarkot” a village which appeared like a fairyland under the mist. A long winding lane linked the houses and farms which were partially covered by the mist created an oil-painting type of scenery. Our team-mates rushed down from the bus, set up our tripods and aimed our cameras at the best possible angles under the chilling wind. When the right moments arrived, we could hear the continuous shuttle -release sound, everyone had the idea of rather wasting more film than to miss a good shot You only need to learn a simple greeting “Na-mas-te” to travel in Nepal. Especially in the remote villages, when the local people saw our team packed with bulky and clumsy equipment hunting for subjects, they would follow us excitedly and some would even act as our interpreter to instruct the Nepal people to pose for us. A sweets or a pencil was sufficient to please a child while we captured his innocent expressions with numerous rolls of films. For all the 7 days, we had good sunlight as though we had brought the sun with us from Singapore.Our next target was Pokhara,Phewa Lake. The best moment to capture the serene lake scene was at dawn when the whole lake was covered by the mist. When the sun started to rise, the heat would cause the lake to turn into bubbling waters and the peaks of Mt. Annapurna would turn golden .One of the best Salon shots was to take Mt. Annapurna with her reflection on the lake and a lonely boat at the golden section On the way back, we visited the Tibetain village which was imbued with mysterious culture.We captured the scenes of the little Lama playing wildly outside the temple and a religious Tibetian lady performing the full bowing ritual.After one day of hard work. We enjoyed our dinner at “Hungry Eye” restaurant by the lake side Back in Kathmandu, our team visited “Durbard Square”,“Pashupathinath”which was where the Nepal people burnt the corpses and poured the ashes into the holy river.At “Swayambhunath” Stupa, we could see the 4 pairs of holy eyes staring at us. As the location was packed with tourists and beggars, we only managed to take some record shots for memories. In this 7 days, our team-mates had
a lot of photography interactions and I felt that
learning to have a positive attitude
towards photography was the best reward that I go
from this trip. |
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