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Photographer’s Note

Tanneries

Morocco is famous for producing high quality soft leather. It is recommended that only those with strong stomachs visit the tanner's quarter, close to the Karaouine Mosque, which despite its odorous reputation has become one of Fez' main attractions. Visitors can ascend to any one of the terraces belonging to the surrounding leather shops that look down on the fascinating tanners' yard, honeycombed with vats of dye and piled with skins, and although there is no need to pay it is expected that you will at least look around the shop afterwards. The reason for the bad smell is chiefly because guano and pigeon droppings are used as part of the curing process.

ChrisJ, jjbach, jpages, PixelTerror, olopez, Guenther, nwoehnl, capthaddock, Paolo, cfaveiga has marked this note useful

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naxius (16679) 2005-04-09 5:58

This place is always very impressive by its colors!
Very good and instructive to see how these men are working.
Very difficult I guess.
I remember also the very hard smell there was!
Alex

jpages (1670) 2005-04-09 7:06

Muy buena vista de los curtidores... casi lo huelo, uno de los lugares que mas me gustó de Fez y Marruecos.Has capturado la faena del lugar con unos colores muy vivos y con las zonas sin sol también con buena luz. Muy bien. Yo todavía no he visto los míos, a ver si te puedo hacer la competencia!
Saludos y buen fin de semana.

jjbach (9111) 2005-04-09 9:19

Very impressive shot Jose!! It's the first time in my life, that I see a tannery. Very interesting picture. Great picture, thanks for sharing!

Regards John

MiguelP (14336) 2005-04-09 15:17

¿Visitaste Fez, pillín? Impresionante ¿verdad? (aunque sino recuerdo mal -hace ya casi 15 años que fui- el olor era bastante epatante también).
Buena composición y mejor colorimetría. Un abrazo.

PixelTerror (86839) 2005-04-10 3:27

Hola Jose,
Tanneries are indeed characteristic of Moroccan cities and your good overlooking PoV as well as the excellent note document them well, the sun seems to have been hard here but we can well see the differences in color tones, well done !
Saludos,
Jean-Yves

ChrisJ (70443) 2005-04-11 3:35

Hi Jose

An excellent daily life shot, with a good, strong diagonal. Wonderful, saturated, color, & good sharpness. Buenos!

olopez (4870) 2005-04-11 3:59

Excelente punto de vista para mostrar estos curtidores JM.
Buena diagonal y colores y interesante nota.

toni_al (15476) 2005-04-12 14:27

Hola Jose Manuel.
Foto muy interesante, y por supuesto una toma precipsa. La composition y los colores resaltan muy bien.
Saludos
Toni

Guenther (6859) 2005-04-13 11:07

Hola Jose, imagen muy interesante y informativa. El punto de toma y la luz son perfectos; me gustan en particular los diferentes tonos de rojo y marrón.

castellano (708) 2005-04-14 4:59

Preciosa!

Me encanta el juego de tonalidades y el ambiente que transmite esta foto, parece retrotaernos a la edad media (si no fuese por la ropa de los lugareños).

Bonita escena. Buen trabajo!

nwoehnl (120) 2005-04-14 16:00

Hola Jose. A very interesting photographic subject - a good repetitive element provided by the colorfully filled basins, and the composition is greatly enhanced by the people working and moving in this unique environment. Good instructive notes, too, I learned a lot by looking at this posting of yours.

capthaddock (28640) 2005-04-17 12:22

Hi Jose - another colourful image of this place, excellent note, saludos desde Marrakech.

Paolo (40755) 2005-05-12 5:46

Great shot of that Tanneries!!!
it's so colorful! also light and focus are good, but the point of view is really wonderful!
thanks Josè.
ciao

cfaveiga (411) 2006-05-19 16:36