Temple in the Dunes | digitized from slide
I liked this small temple in the sand. I think it was a ruin, left to the elements.
Front | digitized from slide
Columns | digitized from slide
Ghost in the dark | digitized from slide
Ruins in the Sand | digitized from slide
Cut the Crap | digitized from slide
To give an impression of how the slides look before, and after; the next three images. I digitize them with a Rollei DF-S 190 SE; and process them in Lightroom. This is a bad one, with the ‘white-blow’ on the lower left side; and the color-change-gradient on the right. Sometimes these injuries give the image a little extra.
Unprocessed Slide-scan | digitized from slide
Processed Slide-scan, color | digitized from slide
Processed Slide-scan, B&W | digitized from slide
Backside | digitized from slide
The last ones from this temple.
Arcade1 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt11 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt13 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt12 | digitized from slide
Arcade2 | digitized from slide
Vivid | digitized from slide
Left wing | digitized from slide
Interior1 | digitized from slide
Inside the temple it was dark, with some artificial light. In stead of 12.800 ISO and Auto-whitebalance I only had 400 ASA daylight-slide-film I could use… Very good for the mythical atmosphere, i must say 😉
Interior2 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt8 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt9 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt10 | digitized from slide
Ceilingdetail1 | digitized from slide
Ceilingdetail2 | digitized from slide
Ceilingdetail3 | digitized from slide
Front view | digitized from slide
One day a student, or something; a really nice fellow from a small village, wanted to show me a very fine temple. It was in Somnathpur, about 35 km. from Mysore. He knew exactly which buses we had to take. When the next bus stopped in front of us he jumped inside, threw his sweater on a free seat, so that I could sit, while he stood right behind me. This subservient behavior felt a bit uncomfortable for me; but I let him do his thing and he was enjoying his trip a lot. When we reached the temple, he stayed outside and waited patiently till I had seen it all. The Chennakesava Temple was built in 1268 C.E. under Hoysala king Narasimha III, when the Hoysala Empire was the major power in South India. According to the books it is one of the finest examples. Must be true. I was speechless.
The Entrance | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt1 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt2 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt3 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt4 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt5 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt6 | digitized from slide
Incredible Sculpture prt7 | digitized from slide
