"<h2>The Beating Hearts of the Buddhas</h2> <br/>The morning fog coming off the top of the jungle trees was not like anything I had seen before.  There was just enough morning light to give everything a twilight blue and paint the mountains in the distance a deeper color.<br/><br/>I tried something a little bit different with this photo.  I was holding two flashlights to help me climb the temple in the morning. I think I got there about 5:30 AM when it was still pitch black, so the flashlights helped me find the right footholds and whatnot.  Anyway, this was an extremely long exposure, so I used some of that time to ""paint"" the inside of the bell cages with the beams of my flashlights.  Each of those bell cages held a solitary outward-facing Buddha.  I'm glad I was there alone, because I'm sure I looked like a loon running around shining the flashlights in patterns to illuminate the Buddhas inside.<br/><br/>- Trey Ratcliff<br/><br/><a href=""http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2009/06/23/the-beating-hearts-of-the-buddhas/"" rel=""nofollow"">Click here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.</a>"
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