This was my 6th visit to Key Monastery. The weather on the first day was terrific with snow storm and rain. It was -15 degrees outside and the cold was chilling through my bones. We had to abandon the plan to shoot and we waited 2 days for the weather to clear. The sun came back and the skies looked pleasant. We has a strenuous hike to the viewpoint in knee deep snow and waited for the sunset. The position of sunset had shifted by a drastic angle from the usual behind point in summers. We created shots for 20-30 minutes. It started to bone chill in the cold but we got out shots. We slid down as it was difficult to take the same route back. The monastery looked majestic in the snow covered Himalayas and lit up by the the sun setting beside.
Key Monastery from vantage point behind, in winter at sunset.
Artist Name: Arun Hegden
Edition: 1/1
Collection Name: The Veil Of Eminence
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Shot in Spiti, India, February 2022
The Veil Of Eminence
This is a collection of 7 1/1 photographs of Key Monastery which is an 11th century Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Himachal Pradesh, India photographed over the span of 7 years from 2016-2022, by Arun Hegden.
Reaching Spiti takes 36-48 hours through treacherous roads, and a strenuous climb of 30 minutes in the cold/ dusty winds through thin air, at an altitude of 12,000 ft which is really challenging.
As a person who lived majority of my life in the tropical land, I struggled everytime reaching here, having breathlessness, mild to heavy headache, bad stomach and acid reflux.. on almost all trips.
But the photographer in me kept pushing every time as I believe as great images are made out of your comfort zones. The challenge here was to create entirely different images of same place.
I have shot the monastery in different angles, different seasons, different lighting conditions, using different sky elements to achieve the same.
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This was my 6th visit to Key Monastery. The weather on the first day was terrific with snow storm and rain. It was -15 degrees outside and the cold was chilling through my bones. We had to abandon the plan to shoot and we waited 2 days for the weather to clear. The sun came back and the skies looked pleasant. We has a strenuous hike to the viewpoint in knee deep snow and waited for the sunset. The position of sunset had shifted by a drastic angle from the usual behind point in summers. We created shots for 20-30 minutes. It started to bone chill in the cold but we got out shots. We slid down as it was difficult to take the same route back. The monastery looked majestic in the snow covered Himalayas and lit up by the the sun setting beside.
Key Monastery from vantage point behind, in winter at sunset.
Artist Name: Arun Hegden
Edition: 1/1
Collection Name: The Veil Of Eminence
License: Primary NFT holder is free to use in advertising, display privately and in groups, including virtual galleries, documentaries and essays by holder of the NFT, as long as creator is credited. Provides no rights to create commercial merchandise, commercial distribution, or derivative works. Copyright remains with creator.
Shot in Spiti, India, February 2022
The Veil Of Eminence
This is a collection of 7 1/1 photographs of Key Monastery which is an 11th century Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Himachal Pradesh, India photographed over the span of 7 years from 2016-2022, by Arun Hegden.
Reaching Spiti takes 36-48 hours through treacherous roads, and a strenuous climb of 30 minutes in the cold/ dusty winds through thin air, at an altitude of 12,000 ft which is really challenging.
As a person who lived majority of my life in the tropical land, I struggled everytime reaching here, having breathlessness, mild to heavy headache, bad stomach and acid reflux.. on almost all trips.
But the photographer in me kept pushing every time as I believe as great images are made out of your comfort zones. The challenge here was to create entirely different images of same place.
I have shot the monastery in different angles, different seasons, different lighting conditions, using different sky elements to achieve the same.