Viking's disembarkment Photo

Photographer’s Note

This photo shows a place called Dwejra.Dwejra is also home of the Fungus Rock or, as it is locally known, "Il-Gebla tal-General" which translates to General's Rock. It is called so in remembrance of the Italian General who centuries ago fell to his death while supervising quarrying activities in the area. History tells us that a special plant with medicinal and healing properties used to grow on Fungus Rock and because of this the Rock used to be heavily guarded during the era of the Knights of Malta. Anyone caught stealing the crop was sentenced to death or to life on the galleys. The crop was picked and brought to the mainland by using a primitive system of baskets and pulleys.

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quillo (7074) 2009-04-15 8:42

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Hello Thomas, interesting history of the rock
and nice image of the small island, is important
the presence of the ship in the scene since it
is possible to specify the scale and the proportion
of the composition, I like the result of the work,
congratulations.

A greeting and welcome to TE.

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PixelTerror (86036) 2009-04-23 3:06

Hi Thomas
Vikings as south as Malta, LOL the shape of the boat makes it believable, good that the boat is there to give scale as well and show us how big the rock is. I think you could push highlights to give this image a more luminous feeling.
Have a nice day JY

jmdias (18819) 2009-05-07 7:51

thomas

I liked this image from your country, very nice framing, the light is soft and interesting and the boat is the cherry in the cake.
I have some relationship with malta since I was baptized by a maltese priest. there was a legend saying he said a malediction against my hometown. haha

hugs

jorge

fritzi007 (2389) 2009-06-05 12:25