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I had just climbed and skied on Everest or Chomolungma, typically translated as Mother Goddess of the Earth.The men I climbed with laughed at me as I bounced along with them in the back of an old Chinese truck on the Tibet side of the Himalaya. We had set some world records, lost a lot of weight, and lost our voices too, in the dry air of high altitude. 
 
With such wide open spaces in Tibet, one could easily see both the beginning, and the ending, of a storm at the same time. The snow was coming on so wet and furiously, it was a shower, a snow shower! They said I would never get this image, it was too dark, demanding a slow shutter speed, and the movement of the truck would make the image a blur. But I got it. The broad expanse of Tibet, and all its shades of blue, look like a water color painting to me, when the weather is shifting. I became mesmerized by the blue scene, driven to capture it, even though I had to be  grabbed several times so I wouldn't fall out of the truck. Buddhist monks meditate on the color blue, and I was transfixed. My hope is this image can raise your consciousness, even just a little, as you feel your beta waves turn to alpha in your mind, when you look deeply into this image.  

This large photograph 2' X 3' is a limited series of 108, the number of prayer beads on a Buddhist prayer mala. Archival and museum quality paper and printing will be utilized: Epson UltraChrome HDR pigmented inks, and Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique 310 gsm paper. Decorators, other sizes and prices available. Tibetan Blue should be in every setting where calm and creativity need to be encouraged.  Artist's Proof #3.

This image, in a series of 4, a sacred number in Tibet, was taken in the highest region of the Himalaya. Each of these photographs was a gift, an unexpected image to appear, when I returned home and processed the film. All photographs were taken in the 1980's with Kodachrome 64, the film which records colors most like the human eye sees them. Studies and data have shown that the color blue can double creativity and productivity. It can also have a strong calming effect. I discovered these facts after putting together the Tibetan Blue Collection when I read the best seller, IMAGINE, by Jon Lehrer. However, my selection of these blue images was purely instinctual and spiritual. Oxygen is a UV filter, and with low O2 content at high altitude, with less filtering, I feel the blues resonate, and they shift my mind, they transport me.
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Snow Shower, Tibet/ 1 of 4 images in Tibetan Blue Collection Photograph - Limited Edition of 2

jan reynolds

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The broad expanse of Tibet, and all its shades of blue, look like a water color painting to me, when the weather is shifting. I became mesmerized by the blue scene, driven to capture it, even though I had to be grabbed several times so I wouldn't fall out of the truck. Buddhist monks meditate on the color blue, and I was transfixed. My hope is this image can raise your consciousness, even just a little, as you feel your beta waves turn to alpha in your mind, when you look deeply into this image. This large photograph 2' X 3' is a limited series of 108, the number of prayer beads on a Buddhist prayer mala. Archival and museum quality paper and printing will be utilized: Epson UltraChrome HDR pigmented inks, and Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique 310 gsm paper. Decorators, other sizes and prices available. Tibetan Blue should be in every setting where calm and creativity need to be encouraged. Artist's Proof #3. This image, in a series of 4, a sacred number in Tibet, was taken in the highest region of the Himalaya. Each of these photographs was a gift, an unexpected image to appear, when I returned home and processed the film. All photographs were taken in the 1980's with Kodachrome 64, the film which records colors most like the human eye sees them. Studies and data have shown that the color blue can double creativity and productivity. It can also have a strong calming effect. I discovered these facts after putting together the Tibetan Blue Collection when I read the best seller, IMAGINE, by Jon Lehrer. However, my selection of these blue images was purely instinctual and spiritual. Oxygen is a UV filter, and with low O2 content at high altitude, with less filtering, I feel the blues resonate, and they shift my mind, they transport me.

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Photography:Color on Paper

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Size:36 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in

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I hold some world climbing and skiing records, and made the Olympic Biathlon Team, a combination of rifle marksmanship and cross country skiing. However I consider myself a writer/photographer/author, with about 20 non-fiction books out, for both children and adults. My passion is extreme photography, which shifts my mindset. I have made my way to very remote areas, to capture the essence of a place and it's people, and try to replicate this sense for my viewer.

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