Some images from my last trip in 2011

 Going through my photos recently I was struck at the beauty of Tibet, the colours, the light, the textures. 

While away, I'm never happy with the images I take on my small digital camera, they always seem to miss something of what it is I'm seeing and experiencing.  So I get home, show them to friends who are interested and then forget about them. 

 A lot of the 'not being happy' with my images is trying to look at them in the camera's small view finder but with the strong glare of the Tibetan sun, I can never really tell if they are over-exposed or blurred.  But I have re-visited my photos this week and am pleasantly surprised by what I see so I wanted to share some of them with you.

 The murals you see above and below are painted on the walls of Ronghpu Monastery which is near the base of Mount Everest.  Many mountain climbers visited the monastery during the 1920's and it was the Lama of Ronghpu who gave Tenzing Norgay his name as a young child.