Mausolée Habib Bourguiba Photo

Photographer’s Note

Mausolée Habib Bourguiba

Displayed here is the central portion of the mausoleum of Habib Bourguiba, the first president of Tunisia and responsible for its independence. The eye catchers here are of course the domes, but the ornamented way the vernacular architecture of the southern parts of the Med is represented in the lower part, the light coloured box type structure, is fascinating too.
Captured during a Tunisia trek in October 1993.

Habib Bourguiba was born in 1903 and was Sorbonne-educated. His involvement to separate Tunisia from France led to his detainment and exile in 1939. He returned in 1949 and formed the Neo-Destour Party to continue his efforts for separation. After complex internal dynamics, involving a period of hybrid Tunisian-French rule, Tunisia gained its independence on March 20, 1956 with Bourguiba as prime minister. He became the prime mover in the modernization of the Tusenian state which amongst other things brought a collectivist experiment in the sixties and the granting of modern civil rights to women. In 1975 he was appointed life long president. During large parts of his rules he was very popular allthough there where complaints about rigged elections and from the beginning of the 80s he had difficulties ensuring the positive connection to the world market and dealing with the orthodox Islamitic political movement. In the last years of Bourguiba’s rule his health detoriated and in a smooth and unique ‘coupe d’état médicale’, his prime minister Ben Ali forced him to resign on November 7, 1987. He died in 1997 and was put to rest under the central dome.
When I took this photo in 1993, Bourguiba's parents and first wife were entered in the mausoleum.

The tech: Scanned with the EpsonPerfection 2450 photo. PCS3 work flow: I altered the saturation, contrast, curves and levels for the whole pic and some elements separately, using different layers, enhanced the edges, ran the noise filter on the sky USM-ed (a 5 step method), added a frame and resized and did a gentle USM (1,1px, 22%) again.

syd1946, edytungkal, PixelTerror, jhm, carper, danos, Floydian, Tue, UlfE, alvaraalto, cherryripe, lucasgalodoido, Vames has marked this note useful

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syd1946 (17965) 2008-01-18 1:00

Kalimera Bert,
An amazing architecture and also a great form as an image!I am impressed from the quality in colors and light but most of all I admire your eye to the lines,the shapes and graphism to create another masterpiece.Your note always helps a lot!

Have a nice weekend file mou!

Thomas

edytungkal (4519) 2008-01-18 1:08

Perfect composition on this beautiful historic building, the architectures are fantasitic and you have captured it excellent to show the details with clarity. I like this shot Bert, great work......tfs

daniel

imrek (4) 2008-01-18 1:12

HI Bert,

very nice colors and pov and of course quality is outstanding, what does mean "5 step method"?

rgs,

imre

PixelTerror (86797) 2008-01-18 2:56

Salaam Bert,
Many people have their holiday in Tunisia but we see surprisingly few photos on TE, so it's nice that you post some, for a scan it is very crisp and detail so it means your workflow must be right, without the provided data I couldn't tell it's a scan. I also note the fall light contributes buch better to lighting your subject than the hard summer one, and last but not least I like this 1001 nights architecture, must look nice at night too I guess.
Have a nice day JY

jhm (83276) 2008-01-18 3:32

Hallo Bert,

Hoe heeft u deze foto zolang kunnen bewaren, het is een perfect kwaliteits foto.
Wat u hier presenteerd in niet alledaags te vinden op TE.
Zeer mooie samenstelling schitterend van kleur en dit voor een gescandbeeld, mijn complimenten voor dit foto werk Bert.
Bedankt voor uw schitterende commentaar op mijn laatse foto, ik ben er door gevleid.

Prettig weekend, maar het weer zal droevig zijn de komende vierdagen, temp hier 9.4°C en regen.
John.

carper (65598) 2008-01-18 3:34

mooie foto Bert,
prachtige moskee zeer goed in beeld gebracht. De verhouding is ook goed, uitstekend fotowerk. prettig weekend. Ik hoop dat we de zon deze keer weer eens te zien krijgen.
groet Jaap

danos (33192) 2008-01-18 7:20

Hello Bert,
what vivid colours and light!!Excellent sharp capture with extra contrast colours between the mausoleum of Habib Bourguiba,and the sky.. It's a superb capture Bert, one to be truely proud of.Informative your note too.

Regards,Danos

Floydian (30970) 2008-01-18 7:25

Hallo Bert,
Een schitterend kleurpalet met felle diepe tinten die overweldigend binne komen hier. Dat blauw steekt mooi af then de gouden koepel en brengt een prachtig contrast in the foto. Mooi symetrisch opgebouwd and de hele setting ademt een bepaald soort van respect en rust...mooie plaat in een perfect scan, iets wat je heel goed onder controle hebt.
Prettig weekend, Henk

Tue (25608) 2008-01-18 8:06

Hej Bert,
Prachtige foto van dit mausoleum. Het licht is heel aantrekkelijk en komt mooi van links. Vooral mooi te zien hoe het op de koepels schijnt. De decoraties op de muren zijn goed te bewonderen. Uitstekend werk!
Fijn weekend!
Groeten,
Lars

UlfE (9158) 2008-01-18 12:48

Hi Bert,

I am really, really impressed. The quality of this is top class. Nobody could beleive that this is a 15 years old shot. Colours, clarity and lighting are amazing. Absolutely fantastic editing work. Have a nice weekend!

Cheers,

Ulf

alvaraalto (5301) 2008-01-18 14:48

Hallo Bert,
Een schitterende kwaliteit. Heb je de foto of het negatief gescand? In elk geval hebben die 5 stappen voor een perfect resultaat gezorgd.
groet Rob

cherryripe (19173) 2008-01-19 7:23

Hi Bert
This looks like a postcard showing a very pure image without tourists. The symmetry shows off the pretty building so well against a perfect blue sky. The colours are so attractive.
Regards
Nikki

lucasgalodoido (16789) 2008-01-19 12:11

Hi Bert,
very beautiful architecture and clean place. Good colors in your photo too.
Congratulations and Hug!

Stepan (27175) 2008-01-22 23:17

Clean, pure, straight... The symmetry enhances the visual impact. That's simply great.
Stéphane

brevbrev14 (372) 2008-01-30 6:52

dear Bert! how are you?
i like a lot the image and i hope to visit Tunisia at the end of the year..
great architecture image...really clear and perfectly composed!
ciao!
Valeria

pablominto (41314) 2008-06-06 4:45

Hello Bert,

The symmetry in composition is attractive, so are the pin sharp details in the architecture!
The side light works well to create this 3-D effect, also rendering great colours...

Greetings,
Pablo -

Vames (4356) 2008-06-13 5:32