The spirit of Eastern Anatolia Photo

Photographer’s Note

We were on the road, with a small bus, from the Nemrut Dagi to the Van Lake, in the Eastern Anatolian Region, the "Far East" of the wonderful Turkey.
Eastern Anatolia is a fantastic Region, the less populated and one of the biggest.
The Taurus Mountains which parallel Turkey's southern border, and the Black Sea Mounts in the north join together to form a mighty range. Enormous flat valleys appear after many dozens of miles of mountains streets, and here there is the Spirit of that area: the absolute nothing.
10, 20, 40 miles of land, sometimes corn fields, normally only abandoned earth.
Sometimes there is a small bungalow that sold tap water, watermelons (excellent!) and delicious honey. And nothing more.
The traffic is a word unknown here, only few big trucks that run from the big cities of Central Anatolia to the borders with the Caucasian Nations and to Iran and Iraq.
It was a long way, many, many hours, but never boring. Never.

*scanned image*

sam224, arnabchat, huynt, serenadanesi, gaby, nerve, cessy, sufi has marked this note useful

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rbcy1974 (20742) 2005-07-12 4:10

Hi Paolo,
This is my favorite region of Turkey.
I really like the position of the trucks and farmers in the photo and the sark contrast between the sky and the ground; Gives it a true frontier ambiance.
A+
Daniel

summersun (4964) 2005-07-12 4:21

joli paysage rural, j'aime beaucoup la lumière et la couleur dorée de l'herbe et le bleu/violet du ciel.
Vanessa

sam224 (5851) 2005-07-12 4:31

Bella composizione e colori molto vividi. I dettagli sono un po' scomposti, ma sicuramente ció è dovuto alla scannerizzazione. Un buon lavoro.

arnabchat (6982) 2005-07-12 4:59

Hi Paolo,
nice flury of colors, bright and lovely. one can feel the simple country life. wonder if the tilt is that of the ground or of the camera, but anyway, a simple but nice photo.
thanks for sharing, Arnab

huynt (5077) 2005-07-12 5:00

Hi Paolo
A wondeful color and light shot. I like the color tone and two cars. All is perfect. Well compositon. Thanks. Ciao. Huy

serenadanesi (926) 2005-07-12 5:43

Bella fotografia, Paolo. I colori sono magnifici e la linea dell'orizzonte rende bene l'idea di spazi immensi. Purtroppo lo scanner ha un po' rovinato la definizione dell'immagine.

gaby (19793) 2005-07-12 5:53

Hi Paolo, un cliché superbement composé avec de très jolies couleurs chaudes -
le ciel aussi est splendide
Merci
Gaby

sergecross (3438) 2005-07-12 23:02

Paolo, your picture contains a nice theme and dramatic scene is very interesting. I think that needs more quality on the resolution but is very good and i like tha background.
Sergio

jrj (34777) 2005-07-13 7:22

I like this motive and the compo. The lov pov works great andpresents the detail in the best way. The scanning is this time maybe not a complete sucess, but anyway a most intersting shot P.

DLM (6447) 2005-07-14 13:22

Hi Paolo,Great image,sky looks aamazing.POV is great how it leads the eye up towards the group of people.
Well done.
Dave.

nerve (10210) 2005-07-15 3:39

typical Turkey! Shame on me that i have not been to many eastern parts of my country yet!
(especially Van area) they say its really beautiful..well, maybe in the future i hope..

Strong colours here Paolo with a plain but good composition,, this type of yellow made me a bit homesick now, lol!

Well done,
ciao!

cessy (13647) 2005-07-17 1:17

very nice angle and composition, Paolo
fabulous colors too

fadingstar78 (325) 2005-12-22 11:45

very nice. And I like the sky as only background. but the pic is of bad quality. is it either badly scanned or too sharpened maybe?

sufi (9568) 2006-10-13 10:48

Hi Paolo, my friend...
It really does reflect "The spirit of Eastern Anatolia".. Wonderful point of view and perfect colors... Also perfect light, details and clarity... Scanned but beuatiful...
TFS...
Stay well..
Salim.