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Hugging the mountain
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Marjolein Katsma (iamback)
![Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 16 W: 2 N: 29]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/s-n-s.gif) (50) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-04-10 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Camera: Fujifilm Finepix F30 |
| Exposure: f/7.2, 1/450 seconds |
| Map: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-06-26 11:56 |
| Viewed: 1352 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Click on the image for the full-size version.
Wadi Do'an is a branch of Wadi Hadramawt, rising up to the south. It's a wide and fertile valley, and farther to the south, where it's more humid, there are extensive date palm groves.
Here we see Al-Hajjarayn, a town which both has similarities to Shibam, and contrasts with it. The architecture is basically the same, high-rise family houses made of mud brick (though not as high as in Shibam); but unlike Shibam, sitting on a hill in the middle of the valley, and even unlike most Hadramawt towns built along the base of the mountain, Al-Hajjarayn hugs the cliff half-way up and even curves around it in a horse-shoe shape.
The view from the other side of the valley was spectacular, giving a feel for the wideness of the valley and how the town makes such an organic whole with the mountain - it almost disappears into it if it were not for the occasional whitewashed houses.
To capture this wideness with the town so intimately one with the mountain, I decided to try a panorama here. Hand-held, 7 shots covering just over 180 degrees; stitched together with Autostitch (my first attempt with that program). Unfortunately this process removes the EXIF data; shutter speed (middle exposure) and F-stop (fixed) were as indicated, @ ISO 100.
The map marker shows my position, with Al-Hajjarayn due East across the valley. If you zoom in on the map a little you can see the ramp going up into town also visible in the middle of the picture.
Tech note:
The quality of the full-size panorama is not perfect - Autostitch does not do any color correction and I set it at size 50% (hoping it would not run for hours to render the result) and JPEG quality 80%. Unfortunately this left quite a few artifacts which I then tried to limit with more PP. I also worked on it to remove a bit of the haze caused by all the dust in the air. |
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- nata
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(453) - [2007-07-03 4:08]
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Hi Marjolein,
nice panorama picture.Provides a rather wide view.TFS
