mercur temple Photo

Photographer’s Note

The temple lies in the mountain park wilhelmshöhe somewhat apart on a hill. One sees someone there only rare. After many years I visited the lonely temple again. The photo shows its mirror image in a small brook.

"The "Roman" merkur temple, which refers merkur to the God, was built from 1782 to 1783. It is consisting an open circular building with 6 m diameters, of 8 columns. Its model is the temple of the Venus in the English landscape park Stowe. In the Second World War the temple lost its dome as well as the Merkurstatue." (Wikipedia)

snunney, asajernigan, ymrk, carper, brano14, syd1946, gracious, Dpbours, trekks, jhm, skippy007, claudigan, Clementi, pboehringer has marked this note useful

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snunney (34146) 2009-01-27 3:22

Hello Wolfgang,
I very much like the lighting here and the way you have framed the temple and its reflection making excellent use of the vertical format. Superb natural colours and very good sharpness throughout. A very pleasing image.

rodgerg (23151) 2009-01-27 3:31

Hello Wolfgang,

Very nice! An excellent use of light with a pleasnat play of shade. The nuances of the green colours are very well collceted. The temple arise very well in this green colours. Congratulations especilaly for these incredible reflections.
Best regards,
Roger

asajernigan (13921) 2009-01-27 3:32

Wolfgang,
This is a well composed shot! The inclusion of the water in the foreground was a good decision. The reflection is great giving the shot a nice sense of depth and balance. The lighting and colors are great with excellent sharpness and DOF. The long shadows creates nice contrast throughout the shot.
TFS,
Asa

bema (8471) 2009-01-27 3:39

Hallo Wolfgang,

na, da habe ich wohl mehr Glück, da sich schon ein paar Kollegen verewigt haben; sehr schön komponierte Naturaufnahme, sehr toll finde ich die Spiegelung im Bachlauf, wenn man bedenkt, wie weit das Objekt eigentlich vom Aufnahme standort entfernt ist..
Tolles Photo!

viele Grüße Bernd

Buin (36932) 2009-01-27 5:02

Hallo Wolfgang!
Ein umwerfend schönes Motiv - und ein ebenfalls umwerfend schönes Bild. Der Aufbau ist sehr geschickt und "eyecatching" ;-) Die vielerlei Grüntöne sind - wenn ich aus dem Fenster schaue - ein richtiger Genuss. Man könnte anfangen zu träumen ...
Grüße aus der kalt-grauen Wirklichkeit in siegen!
frank

claudees (490) 2009-01-27 6:02 [Comment]

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Tobias__Ortmann (2589) 2009-01-27 8:18

Hi wolfgang,
schönes BIld nette atmosphäre und das Licht ist auch super
am besten gefällt mir diese kleine spiegelung im Wasser
lg Toba

ymrk (8361) 2009-01-27 9:08

Wolfgang,
The beautiful reflexion with very rejoiced green color.Yea,really!Very lovely views!
Have a nice alltime,take care!

Yağmur

carper (64130) 2009-01-27 9:20

very nice one Wolfgang,
the perspective is nice and it good to see the reflection to, good composition and well seen, very nice, have a nice evening.
regard jaap

brano14 (1848) 2009-01-27 9:46

Wolfgang,
Very simple scene, but that idea with reflection made all differences. Now we have a great photo.
Thanks!
Brano

syd1946 (17807) 2009-01-27 10:12

Hello Wolfgang,
Beautiful image with the green color rules in the synthesis and the the small reflected temple adding much more beauty.Very nice play with the light and shadows too!

Greetings,
Thomas

gracious (20017) 2009-01-27 10:27

Hello Wolfgang,
It's me again!
very beautiful image well captured in the best pov on nature!
the reflection and the partial shadows makes a calm and peaceful atmosphere over the place
well done
regards
Tony

Miha2ou7 (4887) 2009-01-27 12:57

Abend Wolfgang,

An absolutely splendid photo, again utilizing the wide angle with probably some cropping to produce this lovely vertical composition, with many elements and layers, all perfectly sharp and in perfect colors. Fine stuff.

Best regards.

tomescuc (2835) 2009-01-27 14:10

Hallo Wolfgang,
A carefully crafted and balanced composition. The temple reflection is perfectly rendered in the pond. The shade of greens are beautiful. You have done a great job of managing the bright light on the top side of the image.
Cristian

John_F_Kennedy (30689) 2009-01-28 3:54

War bestimmt nicht einfach, bis der kleine Tempel in den Wasserlauf gepaßt hat :-)
Schöne Komposition.
Viele Grüße,
Achim

Dpbours (216) 2009-01-28 4:07

Hello Wolfgang,

In the small thumbnail, I was thinking that you went for your favourite teahouse again! But now I see it's a little temple in a different location.
Very nice reflections there in between the duckweed. That's really the name in English! I translated it online from the Dutch 'eendekroos'. What is it called in German?? Ente wasserlinse? :-)

Greetings! Dennis

TGULUMSER (12422) 2009-01-28 11:41

Hello Wolfgang,
The tones of green are amazing, reflections are nice, too. Great composition,
Best regards,
Tulay

trekks (14260) 2009-01-28 21:21

hi Wolfgang

A nice setting of green and making good advantage of the narrow stream of water for that reflection in your POV, the vertical format works great for this shot. Good summer's day scene.

tfs, bill

il_corsaro_nero (1361) 2009-01-29 3:54

Hi Wolfang,
I like the lights in this picture and the quiet atmosphere.
Green is a difficult color in Photography as well as in fine arts. Here you show a complete series of green tones. The light balance is excellent. Very good. Please, put your shoting data, they are useful to understand how a picture has been captured.
Benedetto

hdl (6735) 2009-01-30 4:57

Hi Wolfgang. Is it possible that your toilet picture got deleted? Nice picture here too with that reflection. Very green, let spring come!

delkoo (33976) 2009-01-30 9:14

hi wolfgang,
This is a lovely photo. The exposure and focus are perfect. All the elements of a good composition are also there .

best regards
didieri

paololg (13248) 2009-01-30 10:36

Ciao Wolfgang,
stupendous image, pure cromoterapy. The green is present in all of its tonalities, thanks to the excellent management of the light. You have done really a pleasant work, compliment!
Ciao, have a nice w.e.!
Paolo

jhm (81731) 2009-02-01 3:12

Guten Mittag Wolf,

Simple composition but pleasant for look at.
Excellent reflection in water, you lay very nice with light and shadows.
Composition and presentation atre superb.
Very well done, TFS.

Have a nice sunday,
John.

skippy007 (6817) 2009-02-01 21:23

Hello Wolfgang, I have seen photos of this Temple before but this is the most creative I have seen, the colours, light are good but the best part of this scene is the reflection, well realised.
Regards
Santo

claudigan (2708) 2009-02-02 12:27

Hello Wolfgang,
There are two opposite points of view of the same subject in the same shot!I like the quiet temple which dominate the field reminding us the Roman Empire leading. And then, the reflection is more mysterious, erased in part by the vegetation around as a souvenir. This cohabitation is really well done and the shot so refreshing!
Regards,
Claude.

Clementi (42957) 2009-02-05 10:43

Ciao Wolfgang,
an exceptional use of light and beautiful reflections characterize this beautiful picture. accompanied by a nice note.
nice job
Giorgio

pboehringer (770) 2009-02-06 9:33

Wolfgang,
that is fantastic and I admire how well you managed the light here. The upper part has a lot of light with the potential of overexposure and the lower portion dark as it is the potential of underexposure. None of it happened, both spots are balanced, right on spot. The detail of the temple as partial reflection surrounded by all the green is extremely good.
Peter

fritzi007 (2381) 2009-02-18 11:09

Hallo Wolfgang!
Das Grün, das stille Wasser, die Spiegelung,-sehenswert!
VG Wolfgang

chrisnet (20354) 2009-03-07 10:11

Hello Wolfgang,
I like much this symetry, and the very good reflection of the temple is well captured, very well seen and done.
Regards
Christian

charlotte_iona (1098) 2009-04-17 4:10

This works very well, with the reflection of the temple in the stream. Very pleasing composition.

darek1978 (11143) 2009-05-17 12:27

Hello Wolfgang,
I like the composition with the little mirror and the fantastic sun light in the background, very interesting place. Excellent green tones and colours, great perspective, well done!
Regards,
Darek

fserajian (4451) 2009-05-27 12:50

Hi Wolfgang,

I must admit this is a well composed shot, you have managed to capture the atmosphere so well withe excellent FG detail and DOF. TFS

Fara