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"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 8
Tsemo Gompa sitting on a barren mountain overlooking to the town of Leh, the capital of Ladakh.
Namgyal Tsemo Gompa was founded by King Tashi Namgyal and has been named after him in the early 15th century, around the year 1430. The Gompa is stands atop the crag behind Leh palace, having a full view of the town of Leh. And because of this position, it offers some of the most splendid visuals of the town. Photo taken before sunset at the same level from the Shanti Stupa, with an estimated viewing distance about 500 m.

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"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 8
Tsemo Gompa sitting on a barren mountain overlooking to the town of Leh, the capital of Ladakh.
Namgyal Tsemo Gompa was founded by King Tashi Namgyal and has been named after him in the early 15th century, around the year 1430. The Gompa is stands atop the crag behind Leh palace, having a full view of the town of Leh. And because of this position, it offers some of the most splendid visuals of the town.

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"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 8
The other side of why Ladakh worth to visit is the scenic White Desert at an altitude, precisely in the Nubra Valley. But unfortunately the local security do not allow the tourists to walk freely around the desert except by camel ride for only a very short route.

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"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 8
In covering of a human activity or People photography, I prefer to use wide lens so that the image looks dynamic, but certainly some angle will looks distortion from close range. However, it depends on how you define the distortion tolerance, although some types of distortion will look beautiful.
But you should avoid distorted angle on something alive, like people, animals, etc.
In this photo I was deliberately placed my position right to the lower in front of Mrs.Kungzang, and when she swung the shovel to the front side, so the role of distortion makes this shovel looks as a same dominant figure of the subject itself. Then I adopted "the rule of third" of landscape photography by placing the subject on the one-third of the frame, and it also gives a chance of the eyes to see the existing background.
About the Exposure, that time the sunlight came almost right up of us and there was very bright so i needed to improve the color contrast between the subject and the blue sky also the green color in the foreground. I used a polarizer filter and fill-in flash, so i could get the dramatic sky but still retain a bit of light that still looks natural on the subject.

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"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 8
This is a portrait of a Ladakhi woman named Dolma who work everyday as a farmer in Nubra valley.
At the time she was harvesting the lavender that grew wild on her farm.
In certain seasons after the harvest period of mustard or barley they let their vacant lot overgrown by weeds before it plowed back for the next planting season. But most of the vacant land is overgrown by wild lavender that grows fast naturally.

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