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At The Ceremony to Pray forTraffic Safety
At The Ceremony to Pray forTraffic Safety
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Challenge: Religion II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax SMC P-DA 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 ED/AL (IF)
Location: Japan
Date: Nov 21, 2009
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/90
Galleries: Interior, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Nov 20, 2009

 I left my pottery class early to go to a local and fairly significant temple on a the side of a mountain that used to have a castle on it. As I was leaving, I passed this priest conducting a ceremony to pray for safe driving. He played the taiko drum and also blew a large conch shell (very impressive), while chanting various sutras. Finally he gave lucky charms to the two paying customers, who would, presumably, hang them from their rear-view mirrors later. In fact, they parked their cars right in front of the little building (there are four spaces for cars there).
Too bad about having part of the drum in shot, but there was also a tassel hanging down in front which I was more concerned about, and managed to miss. ;-Þ

This is no more weird a ceremony than some of the things that go on in churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and shrines around the world.

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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 12/08/2009 09:15:24 PM
Beautiful image. I like the colors and nicely composed.
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Canon EOS-7D
Tamron AF 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical(IF)Macro
 12/02/2009 01:14:04 PM
wow! thanks for the image, and the story...very nice piece of Japan I didn't know about..
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 11/27/2009 09:47:50 AM
first thing that comes to my mind is "sharpness" or OOF...might have tightened up the crop to eliminate the round thing on the left leaving the 2 statues and the person in the middle
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 11/26/2009 10:48:20 AM
I like the center comp. You can really tell that it was not a set up but real life
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR
 11/26/2009 10:23:36 AM
Okay.....I'm not sure I see the title, but a reverent image anyway.....6
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Canon EOS-60D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 11/25/2009 03:07:16 PM
beautiful colors
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