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Machu Picchu silhouettes


Machu Picchu silhouettes
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Copyright: Flavia Soares (Flavia) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1730 W: 96 N: 1897] (7824)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-06-16
Categories: Ruins
Camera: Minolta Dimage Z3
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/200 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Travelogue: Peru on the Road
Date Submitted: 2006-11-19 14:53
Viewed: 682
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Day 11 - People were still wainting for their guides and the sun to go down the ruins whem we decided to explore the city by ourselves. I looked up in a kind of indecision... Should I stay or should I go? It was them that I saw the silhouettes and decided to try this picture. The house that appears is what some people say the 'gardian' house. It's the hieghst building, located on the upper terraces outside the city gate. Machu Pichu is divided on a rural area - the terraces that encircle the village and the urban area which has a unique access. Many are the teories and suppositions about this place and the reason it remains forgottem for so many centuries. For those interested the book Machu Picchu and the Ica Road, from professor Victor Angles Vargas is an interesting ad ilustrative book. I bought it in Cusco, not sure you can find it outside Peru.

Picture was cropped on the botton. A different POV is on WS, please let me know wich one you preffer. A slightly different POV and speed is also available in WS showing the terraces bellow this house.

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i find the workshop more charming although you used slow shutter speed in workshop but it is quite sharp and well detailed dear your note is very informative

Bonjour Flavia,
Je suis un peu absent de TE ces derniers temps (trop de boulot ;-)... mais je continue à regarder régulièrement tes photos.
J'aime beaucoup ce contre-jour en cascade... il se passe pratiquement de légende tant on reconnaît l'architecture typique de Macchu Picchu.
Amitiés de Belgique
Eric /.

Olá flávia, gostei das 3 fotos. Essa e a outra que mostram a silhueta me agradaram mais por causa do belo cpeu azul. Só acredito que em ambas há um excesso de parte negra que poderia ser "cropado" fora. Nessa aqui, eu talvez daria um pouco mais de saturação e um controle de níveis deixando o azul mais intenso.
Sinto um grande mistério nessas suas fotos de Machu Picchu, hein?
Até mais
andre

Hola Flavia:
Sencilla pero con buena composición que hace que la foto impacte al verla.
Un saludo: Javi

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  • cam Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1720 W: 75 N: 2169] (8380)
  • [2007-06-29 9:21]

Hi Flavia
I like your picture for what is left to the imagination.
A place well known,a place that I have discoved,A place that have left its mark in my soul.
Good pesentation of this famous house,and the presence of the peoples,of which I was one of them recently,makes a good composition.
It has an impact on me.
I have started to post my own souvenir of Machu-Picchu and i is a pleasure to relive them.

Have a good weekend
Charles

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