Dragon pillars or Long Zhu
Dragon pillars or Long Zhu is a form of Chinese decorative arts and architecture that is popular in the palace, temples and shrines
The carving of the dragon pillar is carved on stone and wood.
Some decorated with multi-colored glazed tiles.
The dragon will appear in the manner of twisting around the pole or in a soaring position on the clouds.
Chinese people often say that they are dragon species. Or known as " Longteruan " meaning dragon blood. Implies the descent of the same root.
Dragon in the meaning of Chinese is more than a mythical animal or a magical animal in the annals.
Believed that dragons were created from the introduction of unique symbols of ancient tribes and gathered by “Huang Yi”
Including the head of a pig, the ear of a cow, the beard of a goat, the horn of a deer, the body of a snake, the fish’s scales and the hawk 's feet
Come together as a worship pillar that has a Totem style.
It may be possible to create a sacrifice and worship.
And it may be possible to create for each tribe that has the same symbol. That is the origin of the image “Dragon”.
The symbol of the dragon not only believed that there was a mysterious power
It still believed in the supernatural power of dragons that bring rain and rain to humanity, bring abundance prosperity, and happiness to people.
Therefore, the dragon symbol is created in different parts of Chinese architecture.
Whether it is a roof, wall, window, floor and pillar used to support the weight of the building all created in a dragon pattern.
The creation of a dragon dragged around the pole, therefore, there is a source and conform to the beliefs of the dragon.
Because the meaning that is hidden in the dragon is goodness, glory and trust that it is a magical animal and has great power over any other magical creature.
All 1,680 images.
1186 from the air (DJI Phantom 4Pro)
and 494 from the ground (Camera:Sony A7R II lense 28 mm f2, 90mm f2.8 ).
We flown manually to capture the images because the narrow and not secure area for flight with the program.
On ground most of the photos were taken from hand some of them were supported with tripod.
Both we use 2.5 hours of shooting photos.
No Post processing.
It very hard to scan because of shiny and reflection surface. and it height 6.9 meters.
Location: Golden dragon cave temple Ratchaburi Thailand
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RC Screenshots;
Some screenshot of working.
Unfortunately It can’t upload directly on sketchfab from RC for a script problem.
Thanks to the RC team for any things help and this great competition!