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Challenge: Free Study 2014-12 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: People
Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M1
Lens: Olympus 75mm f1.8 for m43
Location: Isipatana, Sarnath, India
Date: Dec 4, 2014
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Candid, Travel
Date Uploaded: Dec 24, 2014

 Isipatana (now called Sarnath) is a famous town near Varanasi where Buddha gave his first sermon after he attained the enlightenment. Now it is a very popular pilgrimage site for buddhists from all over the world, and in particular from Tibet, as these three technically-savvy monks were.

While traveling in India, I found that buddhist monks are indeed quite enamored with western gadgets, they just love to snap photos and videos with their iPhones and iPads. Here is another example

Statistics
Place: 17 out of 130
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Views since voting: 937
Views during voting: 166
Votes: 89
Comments: 12
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 01/08/2015 11:37:26 AM
I am following you everywhere Lev.
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 01/08/2015 09:46:46 AM
My winner!
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 01/08/2015 12:10:34 AM
gives us much joy.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/07/2015 09:53:05 PM
Wonderful candid image; I really like the composition with the tree.
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 01/07/2015 05:15:12 PM
Nirvana! :-)
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 01/07/2015 04:38:20 PM
Very interesting image.
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 01/07/2015 02:20:38 PM
Gap above the branch is distracting. Tighter crop improves this nice capture.
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 01/07/2015 10:53:01 AM
This is such a fun capture - melding the ancient with the future. Nicely seen.
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 01/07/2015 07:28:57 AM
nice scene, with the big tree to frame it into context.
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 01/04/2015 06:18:46 PM
Simple, elegant and humanly engaging. (Humanly engaging?)
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 01/04/2015 02:03:48 PM
This is great,
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 01/01/2015 03:44:30 AM
Too funny, even on their break the phone comes out, get a life......talk some it's good for you!

Good find!
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