India - Hampi Power Journey part 4

This batch of photos is larger, and covers a few days of exploring temples and a cave around Hampi and meditating again at the river on our last morning. 

Again, I apologize for not taking notes, although I do know that the images toward the top involving the monkeys, views from height, climbing stairs (there were almost 600 of them,) as well as an some interior shots of statues, are from the Hanuman temple. It is claimed that Hanuman was born at the spot where the temple is situated.
As I do often, there is a mix of more documentary images with stuff I just like visually, and happen to be where I am at the moment, with no regard for context of story telling.

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NoSh*t

Tonight was to be reading and going to sleep early…. and here I sit, after midnight, having created some weird imagery…. and now wondering what's this about?

It has been an odd week overall.

Btw,  these images are graffiti in NYC and Brooklyn. The "NO" was part of a poster in the subway that had "shit" scribbled in the center of the O. (it's not very visible at this size magnification)  I made the word into a triple image, and added that to the second image.

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India - Hampi Power Journey part 3

I wish I'd have taken notes on the names of places we went.  If and when I connect to someone I traveled with, I'll edit the post with more details of names and places.

The views  here were incredible, as you will see, with the sky turning improbable shades of red as the sun set.

Sounds of male voices coming from the temple below chanting an ancient text filled the air. After the sun went down, we went inside and sat with the singers for awhile.

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There is really nothing connecting these two photographs.
There is no logical reason for posting them together.


The green image came to my attention before it was green.  A few days ago I came across it in a folder while looking for something else. Immediately becoming distracted from my quest,  I put it into software to heighten some color area,  only to accidentally turn it green. I liked what it did to the original image, which I was drawn to basically for it's composition.

I found the second image tonight, shot last year in NYC, while looking for something to pair with a poem. This one didn't work out for that, but it held my attention, wondering what is the story it seems to be implying?

Perhaps tomorrow I'll find the perfect photographic companion for my poem, or maybe write a poem to go with this photo, instead.

Overall, I think the 2 photos probably do connect, if only in context of the disjointed drifting my consciousness awareness is experiencing lately.  Days are not externally structured very much, which being currently unemployed largely creates.....my mind wanders down side streets and dashes off-road when let off leash for periods of time, before being reeled by mantras back into the inner silence.




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India - Hampi Power Journey part 2

This is the next batch of images, created in the attempt to reflect visually, the visceral and internal experiences of being in Hampi, India.

                     
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India - Hampi Power Journey part 1

Much time has past and many transformative experiences have happened  since my last post...(of cats, no less!)

I've been back home from a 4-1/2 month stay in Shiva Sai Mandir ashram located in Penukonda, which is in the southern part of India, a few hours drive from Bangalore.

Photos that will be posted here will not be from the ashram, but areas outside, where I traveled.

Hampi is an ancient village, a five hour bump-fest away on a small bus for us, 13 students of Sri Kaleshwar, on a 6 day trip.

This first series was shot from the bus, the first morning bouncing along barely formed roads from the hotel to the Tungabahara River area, where we hiked in off road to greet the rising sun, and meditate on boulders that dotted the river banks and hillsides.

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