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Sunlight Streaming Into Dim Temple Hall

A beam of sunlight streams through a high window into a dimly lit temple hall, illuminating smoke and casting a bright patch on the stone floor between red lacquer columns and brass incense burners.

A single blade of morning sun falling through a high window into the incense hall of Yonghe Temple in Beijing, the smoke turned solid gold where it crosses, red lacquer columns and heavy brass burners left in shadow either side, 35mm See more

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