electroglyph opened this issue on Mar 09, 2007 ยท 21 posts
Death_at_Midnight posted Sat, 10 March 2007 at 12:04 AM
What I'm looking for is a classic looking buddha, and not one in the thai style or a dancing fat buddha. The reason is when I was studying at LSU, one day I noticed a photography book in the section of the university's bookstore for local (in state) authors. This photographer made a book of his travels, and there was one particular photo that I would never forget. It was taken from an aircraft flying like one or two hundred feet above water in south asia, near china somewheres. There were two small islands, no way a plane or even a helicopter could land. But these two islands were basically two large rocks, the type you see in old Chinese paintings of the southern provinces. One island had a statue of a buddha being carved from it, several caves going into the rock. The second island had a few huts/shacks up the rock face, a rope bridge to the other island. Both islands had a small tiny beach just large enough for a few boats. The whole thing looked small. These were not wide islands..... Anyway....
I've been wanting to reproduce this in Bryce. It's stayed in my memory for years and it was like something out of hollywood fantasy. So if anyone knows of some good looking buddha's, kinda like the great wooden buddha's popular in japan, that sort of style, that would be perfect.