Columns of Apamea Photo

Photographer’s Note

Welcome to Apamea, an important desert trading post on the long trek from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. The remains, preserved by the dryness of the climate, are largely of Roman construction and cover a vast area. During Roman times, the city’s population numbered about half a million, of whom 380,000 or so were slaves. These elegant columns, which form part of the two-mile long main street, have spiral fluting, the direction of the fluting alternating with that on the next – this is a feature unique to Apamea. The projections you can see from a couple of the columns would have supported busts of eminent citizen, these long since lost, destroyed or carted off to museums.

As with most of the sites we visited in Syria, this was blissfully free of other visitors, and I shot the various columns from just about every angle. The atmosphere and the vastness of the place really blew me away.

Paolo, atus, cherryripe, Quentin, Vicky, nwoehnl, PixelTerror, dolin has marked this note useful

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Paolo (40700) 2006-02-22 4:23

Hi Susanna, amazing shot.
the perspective of the pillars is very beautiful. excellent focus, light and colours.
the cotnrast with the sky is amazing.
thanks, ciao

atus (15452) 2006-02-22 4:46

Hi Susanna,
very nicely composed shot here with great POV,very good lighting and sharpness and beautiful colors,too.Compliments!
Attila

cherryripe (18973) 2006-02-22 4:55

Hi Susanna
Excellent perspective of the pillars. They are very sharp and the light is excellent too and I like the varied sky. Great that you managed to get this shot without tourists.
Have a nice day.
Nikki

Quentin (5278) 2006-02-22 10:24

Salut Susanna
It is a great picture of these columns! The light is very nice and the sky behind really beautiful. I just regret that the first column on the right is not completly include in the photo. But anyway this a very beautiful shot!
Cheers
Quentin

blue-velvet30 (6524) 2006-02-22 11:11

Hello Susanna!
Perfect composition! Excellent colors, details, light. Great work!
TFS ;-)
regards
Dorota

Vicky (1438) 2006-02-22 11:47

Hi Susanna,
Excellently focused shot from a perfect PoV to show these ruins in all their splendour. The backdrop of the blue sky and grey clouds offset the detail in the stone and the white border finishes it all off nicely. Super colours and sharpness and good to see it all alone without people in the way! Well done. Best wishes, Vicky

toni_al (15430) 2006-02-22 14:07

Salut Susanna
Très belle composition et beau contraste des couleurs, entre les tons chauds et froids.
Amitiés
@+Toni

nwoehnl (120) 2006-02-22 16:30

Excellent photo of the ruins, Susanna - expert tech on this one, and good comprehensive framing. The light and contrasts are tops, and the vivid sky makes a fine canvas for the old columns to still echo their old-time splendor. Very nice.

markstaples (15670) 2006-02-22 17:14

Hi Susanna
Nice POV, great diagonals, well composed, nice sharp image against a lovely blue sky.
Best wishes
Mark

PixelTerror (86060) 2006-02-23 4:58

Salut Susanna,
ca doit faire tout drole de visiter un site antique comme ca sans visiteurs, ca change un peu de l'Acropole par example ou du forum a Rome...
Jolie perspective bien positionnee dans la diagonale et aux couleurs equilibres, un beau ciel aussi, j'ai l'impression qu'il devait y avoir matiere a essayer des contreplongees dans ce coin, non ?
Tiens, tu avais meme emmene ce bon vieux 18-55 !!!
Bonne journee,
Jean-Yves

dolin (15647) 2006-02-23 9:46

Salut Susanna.
Très belle prise, les couleurs sont superbes et j'aime bien cette angle de ce pdv.
Ca semble assez simple....mais c'est juste beau.
J'aurais peut-être juste cropé la première colonne de droite...mais c'est perso.
Bien joué
Fred

devimeuxbe (55865) 2006-02-25 17:11

Bonsoir Suzanne
J'aime bien cette image avec l'alignement qui semble parfait et qui devient discontinu au sommet. Luminosité, netteté et netteté sont parfaite.
Bien vu
Bertrand

annagrace (2463) 2006-02-26 20:56