Musings of a displaced Australian Photographer in Seattle, USA
I wanted to briefly pause the images from my travels to share another image of Washington I took earlier this month up on Orcas Island. When many people think of Seattle the stereotype is usually grey, overcast and rainy. Well, in the summertime Washington raises a rather large, metaphorical middle finger to anyone who dares...
At one point in the upper tiers of Bayon’s towers, the structure forms such that from one corner of one particular tower, you have a view looking out alongside three other towers, each of them bearing a similar carving of face of the King. Strangely enough, a lot of the tourists there on the day...
Yesterday saw the view from atop the terrace and today we venture down to the level the Cambodian soldiers walked along returning from battle. It was a surreal place to stand knowing that hundreds of years ago, it was the site where Kings of old witnessed victory and defeat first hand. You can see the...
Back outside of Bayon now, beyond Phimeanakas lies the Terrace of the Elephants. Built for the King to witness his armies returning (presumedly victorious) from battle, the terrace is a lengthy construction featuring carvings of yes, elephants all along the walls. This is the view from atop the terrace, looking toward the East Gate of...
Once upon a time, outside the centre tower within the Bayon, there were galleries for dancers. The dancers, called Apsaras as denoted nowadays by the carvings on stone pillars at the site inform us of this fact. My guide was describing this to me in much more detail than I could ever hope to recall,...
I’ve been posting about the Bayon temple for the past few days and never actually described what it actually is (which has been part of the fun of posting about it ). Bayon is the largest temple in all of Angkor. Throughout the temple, there are some 200+ stone carvings of a King’s face...
Fimm – ee – aa – naa – kaas. Or something like that ;) Every time I go to say the name of this temple I slow to a snail’s pace and say it like a child learning to read aloud for the first time. Outside of the Bayon within Angkor Thom are many other...
