As usual, we met up at the cang tin (canteen) of the Duy Tan University at 8am to continue with the panoramic project. Today we will cover the Cham Museum and Heritage Building.
The Cham Museum, with its Cham architecture houses an extensive collection of Cham art (stone sculptures). Our 3 teams started to work their magic, with the girls covering the external panoramas of the museum and the boys inside the museum. We had some difficulties mapping the statues because of its wide range and it affected the stitching. The solution was to map the statues in stages and combine them manually. The other major problem we faced was the constant movement of tourists. Moving people will create ghostly image in the stitching process. There was no way we could get the tourists to move aside to achieve a clear shot of the statues. Therefore, patience was the key to achieve a perfect panorama.
Entrance of cham museum
Some displaced cham art
Sculpture of god
GENESA- god of intelligence and luck
2nd floor
Next, we moved on to the Heritage Building. The Heritage Building is only a few blocks away from DTU. The interior of the museum was still under construction and we were not given access, therefore we just did an exterior panorama covering the grounds. This panoramic shooting was a quick one due to the wide space of the building. After finishing our job, we had a short rest and then we took the van back to the Monkey Mountain (Son Tra) again.
The reasons for the reshoot were the failure of our transitional panoramas to match each other and our stitching of the gigantic Guan Yin sculptures was incomplete. Our 3 teams headed for the mountain after lunch to complete our project. For the transitional part, we took pictures of the 18 ‘luo han’ linearly where each picture needs to overlap the previous picture. For the huge Guan Yin statue, we took the pictures in 2 layers. Several places were chosen so that we can create the hotspots for the Monkey Mountain temple. The photo shooting was running smooth today because there are only a few tourists in the temple.
Entrance of temple
Temple
18 luohan, 9 at the left
18 luohan, 9 at the right
Amazing scenery !!
"Fierce" Luohan
“Friendly” Luohan
We finished taking pictures at 4pm. Taking advantage of the remaining daylight, Mr Foo suggested we continue our ‘adventures’ from yesterday since there were lesser people in the van. We took the alternate way up to the mountain. In the van, all of us were excited and had high hopes to catch the monkeys in action, but alas, only one monkey ran across the road in a flash. The scenery from the peak of Monkey Mountain made up for the disappointment. Its cooling weather and spectacular view made our nerve wrecking trip totally worth it.
Such a narrow lane for two ways traffic
Our travelling route
High up at the mountain
Standing on the cliff overlooking the view of danang city
That’s the whole program for day 12. Hopefully our panoramic works!!
Entrance of cham museum
Our travelling route
