POTD: Barrels for burning incense papers in housing estates

Photo of the Day: You know those burner barrels that taoists and the Chinese use in housing estates to burn incense papers when they pray?

How do these barrels mysteriously appear at the beginning of the hungry ghost festival (or other major pray dates) and then disappear at the end?

Mystery solved! I was having dinner in the evening when I spotted these two workers rounding up these burner barrels. I had the D5200 with me so I snatched a quick snapshot as they went by into the dusk. Photo taken with a Nikon D5200 with NIKKOR 18-55mm kit lens. Photo credit: John Tan.

Mystery solved! I was having dinner in the evening when I spotted these two workers rounding up these burner barrels. I had the D5200 with me so I snatched a quick snapshot as they went by into the dusk. Photo taken with a Nikon D5200 with NIKKOR 18-55mm kit lens. Photo credit: John Tan.

These burning barrels were refurbished from oil barrels and are offered to offer a less messy alternative to burning incense paper in the open – where the ashes fly and spread everywhere when the wind blows.

This is especially the case during the hungry ghost festival and on the first and fifteenth (full-moon) day of the Chinese Lunar calendar.

Declaration: This is the original snapshot. These workers were so swift-footed I barely had time to take a single snap - no time to frame or anything. There was thus this eye-sore of a concrete pillar right at the center bottom, which I have removed by using the Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CC. This feature seldom disappoint and in this case, it took 10 seconds (including selection of the offending pillar) what would have taken much longer without the feature.

Declaration: This is the original snapshot. These workers were so swift-footed I barely had time to take a single snap before they whizzed past – no time to frame or anything. There was thus this eye-sore of a concrete pillar right at the center bottom, which I have removed by using the Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CC. This feature seldom disappoint and in this case, it took 10 seconds (including selection of the offending pillar) what would have taken much longer without the feature.

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