Mount Kailash, Tibet (see larger view)

Mount Kailash, the holy mountain of the Hindus and Buddhists alike,

as seen from a hill close to Manasarovar lake. This is a photo out

of my series "Kulturlandschaften". The English translation

of "Kulturlandschaften" is "man made landscape". However you will

not see much human influence in the shape of this landscape. Still

for me it is a "Kulturlandschaft". In the minds of millions of

people it is much more than what we can see. Walk arund Mount

Kailash and your sins of a lifetime are washed away...

The major rivers of the Indian Subcontinent like the Indus, the

Bhramaputra, the Karnali-Ganges and the Sutlej have their origin

close to the Mount Kailash.

Isn't it very Kulturlandschaft-ish the way you've black clouds on one side, and they get cleansed to white onto the other? Like they went around the snow peak and got redeemed!

As a panoramic shot, I like -as in others of the series- the way the land (in warm colours) and the skies/mountains (in cold colours) share the Earth between the two of them. The location on the major peak in the ridge is just like and -Kulturlandschaft apart- I like how it serves as a chromatic watershed between the two tints of the clouds.

I wold like to see this bymyself.

One day.

Thanks to let me see Kailash