The Great Temple of Ramesse II Photo

Photographer’s Note

This amazing statues of The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simble, was builded in 1260BC; sandstone; depth within the rock 60 metre.

Abu Simble represents the absolute pinnacle of the architecture of the Nubian rock temples. The facade, which takes the form of a pylon, is dominated by four colossal seated figures, 22 metre tall.

I used my first filmed Olympus SLR to take this picture and then converted the negatives into digital image. I sincerely hope the quality of the picture is not to bad.

The shutter speed used was 1/500sec with aperture f11.

Any comments are most welcome. Thank You. Regards, Andrew.

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randompics (913) 2005-04-20 12:31

A great shot and good note. I think it would be even better if you could include some objects like human being to compare the size of these structures. Without anything to compare with, the size of the structure cannot be judged. But anyway it is a very beautiful shot.

jofiction (114) 2005-04-20 13:40

Hi Andrew,
Great shot, its amazing these kind of structures are still standing, great composition and angle. i love the fact that you can still see the ingravings on the wall behind them. great work.

Jo xx

kclai (2267) 2005-04-20 21:31

Hi Andrew, I agreeded with Rabin, that you should include people in your photo to compare the magnificient size of the structures and one last advise, please to use different and creative angle to produce better shot compared to the general angle shot. Good luck.
Eric Lai

gaby (19793) 2005-04-21 4:57

I like this amazing statues
Nice shot and great capture
Thanks
Gaby

alexlie (5359) 2005-04-21 7:30

Hi Andrew!
Interestinh photo from Egipt. I like your composition and colors. The note is good too.
Regards.

elihesamian (26091) 2005-04-22 9:04

A good and nice informative shot with reaching a fine warm touch of colors and a great playing with light and shadows.
very well detailed and captured with a god composition for it,I like it,Andrew!
Thanks for sharing.

Regards
M
(your next shot of this,has a problem about white sky,almost I have not problem with white sky,and I have some that in my gallery,but in your next shot,it dosn't works well,and Hope you don't mind that I don't write for it and say it here:)

Yours
M