The Temples of Bagan at Dusk

 

"Hey, remember that time you went to Mayanmar and came back to New Zealand and slowly began sharing the pictures you took?"

"Yeah?"

"Well why don't you post some more of them?

"What, like this one?"

This image was taken shortly after sunset from up the Shwesndaw temple in Bagan, which is THE place to be at sunset in Bagan and is literally crawling with tourists, but that's ok, I have a rule: Never complain about the amount of tourists at a site while being a tourist yourself, you look like an asshat.

I'm pretty sure the temple in the distance is the Thatbyinnyu Temple

The Temples of Bagan, Myanmar

 

Here's a pleasant change from photos that feature water in some way or another. The temples of Myanmar late in the afternoon. This is actually a 14 image panorama at 300mm, these temples were well away from where I stood. I cropped the ends off the resulting panorama so it's probably closer to 10 or 11 shots.

Stormy skies over Auckland

 

Some months ago I was waiting for evening so I could get some twilight shots of Auckland's waterfront. Instead the heavens opened and drenched me and every other poor sod who happened to be out side that evening.

In dismay I looked at the sky and noticed it had a rather armageddonish quality to it so I fled as far as Westhaven marina in the hope of capturing said sky behind the city. Luck was on my side as not only did the dark clouds remain but the sun peeked through from the west, lighting the cities skyline. A rainbow also briefly appeared, which seems to end at the AIG building, raising several questions: are they hiding a pot of gold we should know about? and are they staffed by leprechauns? 

Either way, the sun and rainbow only lasted long enough for me to throw my tripod mounted camera at the ground and fire off a few shots before the sun hid behind clouds, the rainbow disappeared and the heavens once again opened.