“Hoysala Temple II - Kama Sutra Carving Detail” • Comments (3) • Wednesday June 29th, 2005
 
CameraKonica Minolta 7d
LensTameron 28-200mm f/2.8 @ 28mm
Shutter / Aperture1/40s / f/3.5
ISO100

One portion of the temple exterior is devoted to carvings of the kama sutra. Our temple guide explained this as pictoral sexual education for the illiterate commoner. The illiterate commoner was probably better informed of bedroom gymnastics than your average American.

I had a hard time trying to make this shot look interesting. The lack of contrast in the carvings was giving me a lot trouble. In the end, I settled for this rather cheesy shot with a shallow depth of field. This shot doesn't show a lot of the variety in the carvings, but I like it as cheesy as it is.

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