"Hou Wang is not a name, but a title. It can be translated as ‘Prince Marquis’- a reference to Yang Liang Chieh, the bodyguard commander of the last Song Emperor (1127-1280 AD), the eight year old Ti Ping. When the Emperor fled from Guandong ahead of the Mongols in 1280AD, Hou Wang was left in charge of the rearguard.
Yang Liang Chieh was posthumously honoured for his loyalty by being raised to the rank of Hou Wang and in 1731 the first temple was dedicated to him in Kowloon. Atherton Chinatown's Temple is believed to be the only remaining temple dedicated to Hou Wang outside China."
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Nice subject and crop. Perhaps woudl have been a little better if:
*was cropped slightly larger on the sides
*would be rotate a very little to the left (your shot is tilted to the right)
*red was deeper.
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Nice clarity, gorgeous detail. I like that this is a detail shot instead of a straightforward church pic. I would make the center line run perfectly straight up and down and expand the width to include those small portions of the knockers that were cropped out.
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