Photograph by Maria Stenzel."Incense smoke clouds the air as sun streams through strings of prayer flags during New Year celebrations in Lhasa, Tibet. The fragrant smoke of juniper and artemisia is thought to be pleasing to the spirits of land and sky.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Tibet Embraces the New Year," January 2000, National Geographic magazine.)"
If you click on the image to see it full size you'll see how it is shot through prayer flags that are like colourful mantra beads in the sky.
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