Delphi Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

View on the ruin field in delphi and a column.

"Delphi is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and it was a major site for the worship of the god Apollo. His sacred precinct in Delphi was a Panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, the precursor to the Olympic Games.

Delphi was revered throughout the Greek world as the site of the omphalos stone, the centre of the earth and the universe. In the inner hestia ("hearth") of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned. After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi".
(Wikipedia.org)

Hellas, dip, snunney, rasto1893, jhm, bakes888, Charo, luiscar, zeca, skippy007 has marked this note useful

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bema (9062) 2008-08-14 0:43

Hallo Wolfgang,

ein schöner Blickwinkel und eine in sich bestechende Präsentation; tolle Schärfe und sehr schöne plastische Tiefe..gefällt.

viele Grüße Bernd

dip (12844) 2008-08-14 0:52

Hallo Wolfgang,
ein Klassiker! Sehr gute Komposition,auch qualitativ sehr gut,
Grüße,
Dimitris.

mikolaj_kawa (31161) 2008-08-14 0:54

Hello Wolfgang! Very interesting composition. Wonderful column. Amazing background. Good POV. Very original light and colors. Good effect. Well done!

ManuMay (11373) 2008-08-14 1:22

Hello Wolfgang!

Very good view an very interesting composition!
I love this classic art!! Your contrasts and light management are very good too.
Thanks for sharing.
Have a nice day.
Best regards.
Manuel.

Hellas (5095) 2008-08-14 3:41

Hello, Wolfgang!

Very good composition and light management. The definition of details is also great and the colour natural. Very good work my friend!

Warm regards,
Athanasios.

snunney (35464) 2008-08-14 3:57

Hello Wolfgang,
A fine composition under a good light that helps bring out the detail in the old column. A well chosen point of view that puts everything in context. Excellent clarity.

SteveH (3995) 2008-08-14 18:16

HI Wolfgang, great shot with sharp detail visible in the coloumn, avoiding overexposing too, and good depth as the viewer is taken down the valley and to the hills behind. nice one. Cheers, Steve

rasto1893 (1803) 2008-08-15 3:08

Hello Wolfgang
Nice photo, good composition and very nice colours, nice view of Delphi
My Best Regards
Rastislav

jhm (83298) 2008-08-16 9:09

Hello Wolfgang,

Excellent detail of the column, very old but absolutely attractive.
Your contrasts and light management are very good too.
Very well done, TFS.

Have a nice weekend,
John.

bakes888 (18327) 2008-08-16 17:53

Hi Wolfgang. Great photo. I like the way you have added the column into the scene to place the ruins in context. Good colour and detail also. Thanks for sharing.
Have a good Sunday, Paul.

rodgerg (24937) 2008-08-17 0:45

Hello Wolfgang,

An excellent composition with a POV well selected and a great depth of field. I like the mode which in one discovers your photograph: the vestige on the left in the FG, then the descent towards the valley and in end the moutains in the BG. A true walk for the eyes.
Best regards,
Roger

John_F_Kennedy (31994) 2008-08-18 0:28

Ein typisches griechsiches Säulenfragment perfekt ins Bild gesetzt. Obwohl - ich war in den 80ern in Delphi und war etwas enttäuscht, weil soviele Teile in Museen gebracht wurden und hier nicht zu sehen waren.
Viele Grüße,
Achim

Charo (31779) 2008-08-19 6:26

Hallo Wolfgang,
Sehr gute Perspektive aus den Ruinen und mit dieser Spalte in den Vordergrund, der zu einem viel Tiefe. Ausgezeichnete Licht und Details.
Grüße,
Charo

luiscar (3282) 2008-08-19 9:32

Hello Wolfgang

The composition is mgnifica the foreground with the monument rspntado to perfection rule of 1 / 3 is good, also has achieved a good depth later.

greetings

Buin (38220) 2008-08-20 3:39

Hallo Wolfgang!
Ein eindrucksvolles und herrlich aufgebautes Bild! Was für ein Blick ...
Grüße aus dem wolkigen Südwestfalen!
frank

zeca (20026) 2008-08-20 18:50

Beautiful capture, from a great point of view. The depht of field is excellent. Both architecture and nature are in evidence. Well done!
Regards,
Zeca

skippy007 (7327) 2008-08-25 23:39

Hello Wolfgang, Good detail & colouring on the column, good POV overlooking the valley below, An interesting scene, very well captured in good natural colour & detail. An image that Apollo would be happy with. Thank you also the informative note.
Regards
Santo

CaesarP (3666) 2008-10-18 16:28

Hello Wolfgang,
very interesting Greek summer photo, nice subject and close shot of it, nice idea, pov and quality.
Regards Caesar

DariaK (641) 2009-03-04 18:17

I like this perspective very much. And the contrast between the hardness of the marble and the softness of the landscape behind it. Good detail on the column, too, which I feel I can reach out and touch. Nice picture.

Daria