Angkor Wat

The NY Times ran this story about photographer John McDermott's spectacular photos of Angkor Wat, but neglected to link to his personal site where you can view many more.

To capture the eerie calm, he had planned his trip to coincide with a total solar eclipse.

“The light does really funny things during an eclipse,” he said. “First of all, it’s devoid of color, becomes monochromatic, sort of platinum. And then it ripples and does unusual things, so the whole setting becomes quite surreal” — as if Angkor Wat, with its graciously decaying walls and bas-relief depictions of Buddhist hell, wasn’t surreal enough already."

Cool beans.