A 94-year-old woman ascends the final stairs in the 272-step ascent in the Batu Caves, a pilgrimage site in Malaysia for over 800,000 Hindus per year.
Her hair is 3 meters long (about 9 feet). She has never cut it her entire life. It is so long, she has to fold it back and forth a few times and wrap it to keep it from dragging behind.
from my daily photo blog at www.stuckincustoms.com
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Isn't this place awesome? It's a bar on top of a roof of the Trader's Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. It looks out across the new skyline at the Petronas Towers. Malaysia is a pretty hot and humid country, so sometimes it's not quite so comfy to sit outside. I don't like to sit outside in muggy conditions... I just don't. I remember that I played indoor soccer there in Kuala Lumpur on another night and it was one of my top 10 sweaty nights. Afterward, the only way to cool off was to drink about 128 oz of iced carrot-milk. That doesn't sound very good, but it is.
Also, I've gotten a few questions about how to make those videos. I use Screenflow, and I I have a little review there along with a video. It's a great program -- only for the Mac, I'm afraid... but very cool and fun to use.
In completely unrelated news (if you follow my Twitter, you already get these little life-tidbits), my 3-year old daughter Isabella will no longer sleep alone because she is scared of the Burger King after she saw this commercial. BTW, I try to keep my tweets about 33% inspirational art finds from other artists, 34% interesting life tid-bits (and no, I don't tweet when I am standing in line at a coffee shop), and 33% links to new works/projects of my own.
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This was a totally new way of dealing with death to me.
Malacca is a small seaside town in southern Malaysia. It has many Chinese residents, a majority of whom are still quite poor. When the family members die, there is usually very little money to give them a grave in a graveyard, so there are a multitude of shrines and temples in which families erect these miniature tombstones, stacked deep in rows. There are thousands and thousands of them. A photo is attached to each one, and most waste away with time. A few solitary ones remain behind.
In other news, there was a recent interview by the Homebody Blogger that I have been meaning to post. It has the over-the-top title of "Master of HDR Photography, Trey Ratcliff". Well I don't know about all that (!), but here is a link to the interview for you.
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I found this guy in the Batu Caves just outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Batu Caves are enormous caverns that hold various Hindu temples and plenty of fruit for monkeys. This was shot after a quarter-mile spelunk through the cave and an emergence into a geological oddity – a shaft of sunlight shining downwards through an open chamber that had been carved through the limestone after centuries of rainfall.
The day was bright and sunny, and the monkey sat alone in front of the inky blackness of the cave entrance. This was shot as a single RAW photo. It only had minor HDR adjustments, to get the texture in the wall and the details in his fur.
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