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Hellenistic Gate


Hellenistic Gate
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Copyright: Brad Thurlow (thurlowbk) Silver Note Writer [C: 3 W: 0 N: 11] (59)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-05-27
Categories: Ruins
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, 17-40mm f/4 L, Polarizer
Exposure: f/11, 1/60 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-02-23 14:23
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Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Here is a photo of the Hellenistic gates in the town of Perge, located 18 km from the southern city of Antalya. The city was settled around 1500 BC by the Hittites, was later invaded by Alexander the Great, and finally developed into a Roman city through the first 3 centuries AD.

The gates are what remain of the 3rd century Hellenistic parts of the city and are located well inside the city walls later constructed by the Romans. It is interesting to note that the Romans kept these gates as a part of their city - perhaps they were as impressed as us tourists today...
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  • flip89 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 602 W: 174 N: 599] (3433)
  • [2007-02-23 14:29]

Hi Brad, welcome to TE! This is a terrific capture! You were so lucky to be there when the sky has this drama going on to compliment the dramatic ruins of the gates. I love the lines here - the line of the structures pointing to the sky and then the lines of the cloud pointing to the structures. A fine capture indeed!

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  • sebcz Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 667 W: 149 N: 348] (2345)
  • [2007-02-23 14:30]

Hi Brad!
Those two structures look a bit like chimneys - the clouds being their smoke. I like the composition. Welcome to TE!
Seb

I love the dramatic sky. That makes this picture. The structural remains are quite interesting as well; a fine capture all around. Well done, and welcome to TE!

Hi Brad,

Nice composition and capture... I like cloud with beutiful sky color.. welcome to TE

Hasan

This sky is amazing Brad! It seems hand-painted! I am glad you included these people on the bottom of the photo. It helps giving some scale to the stone structures. Very good! And welcome to TE! :)

Hello Brad

Good photo, which bring us a sense of past times with endless never ending big sky pointing back to what has left from past times.

Hello Brad,

After seeing your last shot of the ferry chimneys, I looked at your Intro. You are an engineer and a part-time grad student in Southern California I see. Do you know the photos of (kensimage) an excellent photographer and mathematician on the faculty of USC?

I am a theoretical physicist, a long-time academic, but originally from Turkey. Accordingly, such images always attract my interest. After giving a lecture at an international conference on nuclear medicine in Antalya, I went traipsing to the archaeological sites that tightly pack the area -- Termessos, Aspendos, and certainly Perge (where the mathematician Apollonius lived in AD 2nd century. And indeed, I knew about this round structure as Hellenistic. A recent posting of the same area identified it as Byzantine. I'm glad to get your note on it.

Regards,
Bulent

There are many strong images in your gallery but this one really stands out for me. Maybe I'm just easily taken in by wonderful skies. Those clouds look as if they've been painted on and almost steal the show from the objects of this shot, the gates. Excellent job, PHIL

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