Silk Road: Samarqand, a photo from Samarkand, East

Photographer's Note

Travels on the Silk Road:
(See also workshop version!) Traditionally, travellers had to pass through poor mountaneous regions, through untamed deserts and steppes to reach from time to time one of the fabulously rich stopover sites. Samarqand qualified for centuries as such a site. The pic shows the interiour of the Tillya Kari mosque built in 1660 AD. It is a part of the medrassa of the same name. The famous Registan center of higher learning is composed of three medressas, Tillya Kari is one of them.
The pic reveals the art of placing a circular cupola on a square building frame by slipping in succesive rings of octagonal and 16-gonal structure. The technique was first developed in early Byzantine times by the Greeks but it became a part of Islamic architecture early on.
The shot was taken by hand but on support without flash, the slide scanned, the resulting pic staightened and saturated and sharpened.
I hope it worked.

mirko_ninkovic, mehr, demneh, ahmet54, Buin, broglia, doubay has marked this note useful

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mirko_ninkovic (488) 2007-01-27 9:10

hi Dietrich,
Beautiful colors in this post from your trip. Great example of Islamic art and architecture. Well done!
Greetings,
Mirko

mamcg (5390) 2007-01-27 9:16

These are still undiscovered, TFS..

mehr (1360) 2007-01-27 9:33

Hi Dietrich,
another interesting shoot from you with extensive information. Beautiful colors and nice sharpness. Too many details over curved roof is to be recognized.
Thanks for sharing.
Bahram

ahmet54 (2893) 2007-01-27 9:37

Salom Dietrich Beg,
ein Rausch in Gold, Blau und Rot. Trotz der Unschärfen eine hervorragende Innenaufnahme.
Gute Komposition.
Viele Grüße,
Roland, der in letzter Zeit nur noch vom Registon träumt.

yannick (1471) 2007-01-27 10:46

Bonsoir Dietrich.
Voilà une belle photo de la décoration intérieure de la mosquée. Les couleurs sont bien rendues, et le choix de la composition donne une bonne idée du lieu.
A bientôt,
Yannick

Buin (42082) 2007-01-27 11:06

Hallo Dietrich!
Diese Pracht ist ja fast überirdisch! Die Zahl der verschiedenen Muster ist unglaublich und diese Farben ... hinreißend! Der Übergang vom Quadrat zur Kuppel ist sehr gut dargestellt. Ein außergewöhnliches Gebäude und ein ebensolches Foto!
Grüße aus dem verschneiten Siegen, aber es taut - und ein schönes Wochenende!
Frank

broglia (3598) 2007-01-27 11:11

Hi Dietrich, marvelous shot under difficult conditions. Such wonderful colours too. I did a small workshop - hope you don't mind. Regards, Roberto.

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doubay (2091) 2007-01-31 4:08

Hallo Dietrich,

wahnsinniges Interiour. Wenn ich mal reich bin, richte ich mir meine Villa auch so ein.
Der Kommentar, wie immer, sehr gut.

VG
Andreas