A landmark location in Old Airport Road, Bangalore is Kempfort Shiva Temple. During one of my recent visits, I took a few close ups of the magnificent and majestic 65 foot open air idol of Lord Shiva. Sharing the same here.
All of the Shiva photos were shot by me with Panasonic Lumix TZ3 camera in broad day light.
The mega idol is portrayed in sitting posture or padmasan, with all others spares in proportional sizes. There is also ganga on the 'jada mudi' of the lord (which was off when I captured these photos). I was told that, during various occasions the 'ganga' is set of and it looks even more magnificent to see water flowing from that height....
The full view of the lord. Click on the image (any image) to see their original size...
Few more views of the lord
Look at the magnitude of the view from right beneath him.
Close up view of Ganga Devi on the topknot of Shiva (in Off mode)
A close up of the Jada Mudi, Trinetra, Chandra and Ganga.....
Look at the curls of his hair....awesome is not the word
A close up of the his extra right hand - holding the trishul
The snake in his neck.
The left hand holding the 'Udukkai'
A beautiful close up of the padmasan posture....
Note the shape of the thighs, the calf muscle and legs....they are so realistic... even the nails and the back of fingers in both his legs and hands....
The massive rudraksh garland... Each ball of rudraksh is made of many hundreds of normal sized rudraksh to get that size.....
On the right side of the Shiva idol, is a massive Ganesha
The huge moonjur with a big modak at the foot of Ganesh
