Doors of Ladakh, India

Leh, Ladakh, through an open doorway

Doors of Ladakh, India are unique; a refreshing change from a world where the doors to our houses are pre-fabricated, with a handful of cookie-cutter patterns. Our doors are so perfect that it is difficult to tell one from another; In Ladakh, the doors are mostly hand-crafted, and each one is different from another.

Here in the modern world, doors are ways to keep the world out.

In Ladakh, doors can make a home.

Gompa door details

Gompa door details

Light and shadow

Light and shadow

The doors are small in Ladakh

The doors are small in Ladakh

Open and closed spaces

Open and closed spaces

Ladakh gompa door

Ladakh gompa door

Ladakh gompa door

Ladakh gompa door

A door into outside

A door into outside

Framed

Framed

Door at Rizhong gompa

Door at Rizhong gompa

Door details

Door details

Colors

Colors

Door details

Door details



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Life is how you see it. A long time ago, when I used to look at life through my eyes wide open, I saw it all at the same time. The order, and the clutter. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Something changed over the last few years as I have started looking through the constraining frame of a camera viewfinder. The world is suddenly a different place. I am beginning to see things I didn’t know existed. I am able to find beauty in strange things.

I live in beautiful California. I have learned to combine the other things I enjoy most, visiting places and hiking, to photography. So I am very rarely outdoors without a camera.

There so much to see in this world.

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