Ajanta, Ellora caves HD film capturing paintings and rock-cut sculpture
Caves carved from hills, immaculate top-down orthodox architecture
Modern monuments rise from plinth, CAD down-up structure
Meticulous paintings on dark-at-noon high cave ceilings
Difficult to adjust in one go zoom-click all finer details of paintings
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PS :
~ Ajanta / Ellora - UNESCO World Heritage Sites -
rock-cut caves located in Aurangabad, India
Ajanta - famous for paintings & sculpure of Buddhist religious art
Ellora - famous for Buddhist, Hindu & Jain rock-cut temples & monasteries
~ HD - High Definition
~ CAD - computer aided design
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By Hitendra Mehta
May 2011
For Members contest – Ekphrasis painting, sculpture, book, film by Brian Strand
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