East Mebon, a 10th century Angkor era temple in Cambodia.

This month’s free desktop calendar is ready for you to download in a choice of 8 different sizes. I’ve reached back into the archives for an unpublished photograph this month. This image was taken in 2006 just after dawn at the East Mebon temple in Cambodia. Dating from the 10th century, it was constructed during the reign of King Rajendravarman and is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.

Why did I reach back into my archives for this? The simple answer is that it was a bit of an experiment. When shooting on that particular trip, I bracketed a lot of the shots 2 stops apart in order to give me more options come processing time. I’d originally processed this as an HDR photograph using the software available at the time (late 2006) but wasn’t happy with the results so I scrapped it. I have a policy of never deleting anything (hard drive storage is cheap so why delete) so when I was trying a few things out using the wonderful Nik HDR Efex Pro the other day, I decided to give some of these Cambodia photographs another go. I had this looking pretty good straight away using one of the presets, so brought it back into Lightroom. After a little extra consideration, I opened it in Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 and applied a skylight filter to give it a hint of color.

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