Spung Tree Roots on Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor Wat, Cambodia
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In January of 2010 Lori and flew to Saigon, Vietnam for a three week trip.
After a wonderful time in Vietnam, we flew to Siem Reap in northwest Cambodia.
Siem Reap is an interesting town, but the reason we were there was the magnificent ancient
Angkor Wat temple complex. The largest religious monument in the world.
This image was taken in the Ta Prohm temple.
Ta Prohm was built in the Bayon style in the late 12th and early 13th century.
Originally it was called Rajavihara (Royal Monastery).
It was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and center of learning dedicated to his mother. Nearly 80,000 people were required to maintain the temple.
Today some refer to it as the "Tomb Raider Temple or "Angelina Jolie Temple"
because of its depiction in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001.
The temple was built without mortar and over the centuries tree roots
have grown over the structures and loosened the stones.
This image is a prime example showing the spung tree roots growing over the temple.
Photographing this building was the main reason I wanted to visit Cambodia.
In order to make sure all the details and the sharpness of the image would be shown
in the final print I exposed 18 photographs (3 rows of six each) and then stitched them together
to get the final image you see here.
After a wonderful time in Vietnam, we flew to Siem Reap in northwest Cambodia.
Siem Reap is an interesting town, but the reason we were there was the magnificent ancient
Angkor Wat temple complex. The largest religious monument in the world.
This image was taken in the Ta Prohm temple.
Ta Prohm was built in the Bayon style in the late 12th and early 13th century.
Originally it was called Rajavihara (Royal Monastery).
It was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and center of learning dedicated to his mother. Nearly 80,000 people were required to maintain the temple.
Today some refer to it as the "Tomb Raider Temple or "Angelina Jolie Temple"
because of its depiction in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001.
The temple was built without mortar and over the centuries tree roots
have grown over the structures and loosened the stones.
This image is a prime example showing the spung tree roots growing over the temple.
Photographing this building was the main reason I wanted to visit Cambodia.
In order to make sure all the details and the sharpness of the image would be shown
in the final print I exposed 18 photographs (3 rows of six each) and then stitched them together
to get the final image you see here.
Below is a detail from the image.
