About the Book
My photographs focus on the traditional and colorful Bhutan. I tried to go back through the time machine that travel allows, for a glimpse of what might have once been Brigadoon.
What I found: An intensely Buddhist country where 10% of the people are monks and nuns … wonderful temples and stupas (sacred monuments) seemingly around every corner… medieval government compounds originally built as fortresses – dzongs – that also double as temples … beautiful hand woven fabrics and frightening masks … tiered rice paddies tucked into breathtakingly steep hillsides … intricately carved wooden buildings and houses with brightly painted windows and beams … rural homes with murals of giant spurting phalluses (a sign of wisdom or fertility depending on your source )… and the people, always open and friendly, smiling as I took their pictures.
What I found: An intensely Buddhist country where 10% of the people are monks and nuns … wonderful temples and stupas (sacred monuments) seemingly around every corner… medieval government compounds originally built as fortresses – dzongs – that also double as temples … beautiful hand woven fabrics and frightening masks … tiered rice paddies tucked into breathtakingly steep hillsides … intricately carved wooden buildings and houses with brightly painted windows and beams … rural homes with murals of giant spurting phalluses (a sign of wisdom or fertility depending on your source )… and the people, always open and friendly, smiling as I took their pictures.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Travel
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Project Option: Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
# of Pages: 120 - Publish Date: Jul 07, 2015
- Language English
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About the Creator
Michael Page Miller
New York, NY and Longboat Key, FL
