Town Hall II Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is a part right above the entrance. The writing says: LIBERTATEM QUAM PEPERERE MAIORES DIGNE STUDEAT SERVARE POSTERITAS. Which is freely translated: The freedom, which was earned by the ancients, may be obtained by posterity.

The Hamburg town hall, built in neo-Renaissance style in 1886-97, the magnificent "seat of government" of the city state. The town hall has an impressive size with its total of 647 rooms. Because of the swampy underground the town hall was build upon 4000 wood logs.

Post-Processing in PS6: cropping, colour selection for the golden writing, inverted the selection and desaturated, unsharp mask.

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avigur_11 (21307) 2004-02-25 3:27

A good architecture shot, Jan. Well captured and very well framed. Very good note. I like this golden characters while all the rest is desaturated. Good job.

robbertjan (2906) 2004-02-25 4:13

Jan great architecture picture! Good composition in a rigth angle. I like the symentri in this one! Well seen.

summer89 (5414) 2004-02-25 5:56

Great Detail Jan, and great Photographer's Note. The writing is similar to Portuguese, my language. I like the detail of your photo, make me remenber along time ago. The symentri is excelent, like wrote Robbert.

Well done.

pamastro (7215) 2004-02-26 14:49

Very nice crop. Good detail and good 3 dimensionality. The way you presented it the writing seems to be floating just in front of the building. Nicely done and I like your long crop here, also, as on the workshop you did for me today. Good note, also. Good job.

orme (6746) 2004-02-27 0:29

A well framed shot, Jan. Beautiful architecture and good detail. Thank you for the informative note.

cool_krishna (465) 2004-02-29 6:28