The green mosque Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is the Green mosque, Masjid Sabz, of Balkh in northern Afghanistan. Today, and already in 1973 when this picture was taken, Balkh is a small town of little significance, but it is one of the oldest cities in the world, founded about 4 000 years ago. It was the birthplace of Zoroaster (Zarathustra), prophet and poet and founder of the Zoroastrian religion. Avicenna (ibn Sina), one of the great muslim scholars of the 11th century was born here, as was Jalal ad-Din Rumi, 13th century poet and philosopher who moved to Konya in Turkey, where he is known as Celaleddin Rumi. After his death his followers started the Sufi order of the whirling dervishes.
Alexander the great probably came to Balkh, so did Gengis Khan and Marco Polo.
Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

mikolaj_kawa, saxo042, sayeed_rahman, molla, paololg, fanni has marked this note useful

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mikolaj_kawa (29933) 2007-12-27 1:28

Hello Gert! Beautiful architecture. Amazing colors. Beautiful scenery. Good capture. Best regard!

gigiotta (453) 2007-12-27 1:39

You have slide with a good stability. Subject and note are interesting, tha architecture is well illustrated, compliments, Donatella

saxo042 (15544) 2007-12-27 1:46

Hej Gert,
A beautiful building, is it still standing like this after all years of war? When was it built?

A very good capture and a good scan.

Hälsningar
Gunnar

sayeed_rahman (2267) 2007-12-27 1:49

Hello Gert

Youve managed the light well in this place..seems the right exposure. The elements have been carefully used with the right perspective ..overall good depth and layers.. a good job :) Like it.

Cheers
Sayeed

TopGeo (21723) 2007-12-27 1:49

Hi Gert excellent shot! A lot interesting reception of temenos green mosque and beautifully foto, that you presented the picture with the plan and the plants in the frame became the reception most impressive praises and I thank
Georgios

molla (6881) 2007-12-28 2:48

Hej Gert
So rich and so poor, would be my description of your Afghani image to day.
H//Anders

paololg (13643) 2007-12-29 15:27

Ciao Gert,
stupendous image of this building in typical Asian style. Very beautiful the colors and very good the neatness considering that the photo was scanned. Well done. Bravo!
Regards
Paolo.

CaesarP (3600) 2008-09-26 3:33

Hello Gert,
great capture of this great architecture, superb quality for 30 old years picture.
I forgot - we do have computers nowadays.
Thank you for sharing
Regards Caesar

fanni (8735) 2008-10-03 14:38

Hej Gert,
again I thought to look through your photos posted relatively long ago.
This one is very good. Excellent composition, very good POV to show the mosque! Very good colours for a scanned photo; the whole colour gamma is quiet and beautiful. I like the tree branch on the left: it looks soft and is a very nice element of the image.
best regards,
Elena