Ilha de Mocambique street Photo

Photographer’s Note

Ilha de Mocambique about 3 km off the mainland is a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the Mozambique's most fascinating destinations. Arab, Indian and Portuguese architectural influences are blended in this place.
For hundreds of years it was a major centre of intercontinental maritime trade. It was occupied by Arab merchants from the tenth century until the end of the fifteenth, and in the sixteenth century due to Vasco da Gama it became a port of call on the route from Europe to the East Indies. In 1507 the Portuguese built a fortress on the island. A later fortification that has survived is the fort of St. Sebastian, which was built between 1558 and 1620 and is inspired by Italian Renaissance military architecture. Mozambique port grew rapidly during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Unfortunatelly the town as it appears today is very dirty, many of the beautiful houses and palaces are completly ruined.

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tomescuc (2837) 2008-12-08 11:13

Interesting street scene, especially taken in a seldom documented part of the world
Cristian

KevRyan (22344) 2008-12-08 15:22

I like your basic idea/observation here - it has all the makings of a really interesting image -things let it down for me a bit - firstly the exposure on the figures - I know there is a balance with the land and the buildings but some selective work on the figures post processing is entirely justifiable here I think. The other issue for me is the bunching or overlapping of the the figures - I think a photograph like this improves with more separation between figures - not always something that will be seen of course.

bw Kev

Deepforest (8813) 2008-12-13 5:29

Witaj Maciek,
bardzo interesujaca scena uliczna przedstawiajaca codzienne zycie... W sumie proste ujecie, ale wiele mozna sie z niego dowiedziec o zyciu mieszkancow tej czesci Mozambiku... Postaci na pierwszym planie sa troche zbyt ciemne (wydaje mi sie ze mam dobrze skalibrowany monitor), natomiast kolorstyka ulicy jest wprost bajeczna... Brakuje mi tylko kilku slow twojego komentarza do tego zdjecia.
Pozdrawiam,
Andrzej