Musings of a displaced Australian Photographer in Seattle, USA
Cambodia is one of the proudest countries I’ve visited. Even amidst all the many hardships they’ve endured over the years, they love their country with all that they have. It was a somewhat depressing place to visit in moments outside of Angkor Wat (and even inside). Poverty cripples the streets of town with the exception...
One of the most incredible relics of the Angkor temples to see are the carvings on the wall. Angkor Wat is certainly no exception with Apsara, Cambodian war stories, and scripture engraved into the walls and stone pillars throughout the temples. Today’s image is certainly no exception. All the way up this giant pillar were...
Seattle loves it when the sun comes out. Especially when it’s an unexpected summer day. Yesterday it reached 94 degrees fahrenheit which was a record, as I’m told, for today’s temperature in recorded history. And people flocked to the beach! What a day!
Sometimes you can walk straight past something and miss it completely. Sometimes those couple of seconds that you were too slow can make all the difference. Yesterday afternoon, I just missed the pedestrian green light at an intersection. I was in a hurry too. I threw my head back and let out a large sigh....
After entering Angkor Wat you ascend into the middle tier of the temple where the King would spend a portion of his time relaxing. Today’s image features the King’s court and within it, his four pools in which he would swim. That’s right… four! Each pool sat outside in the shadow of the towers within...
Never have I seen so many long and narrow hallways in one place as in Angkor Wat. Some of the halls contain carvings in ancient languages, some contain carvings of Apsara as I posted yesterday. Very often, hallways will intersect one another and if you can imagine, you can stand in one spot and turn...
Apsaras are beautiful, supernatural women. They are youthful and elegant, but first and foremost they are dancers.Their job is to entertain the King and Queen in whichever dance hall they are present in. Every temple had in some place, a gallery reserved for dancing. This gallery was very obvious in almost every temple I visited...
