Moon over the Qasr

AlanLichty

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Not quite certain where this one should go as a forum topic since the only terrestrial objects in the image are man made.

The subject structure has long been known as the Qasr al-bint Far'oun (castle of the pharaoh's daughter) and is located at the west end of the main street in the Nabataean city of Petra. Centuries after Petra was abandoned most of the original names were lost and pretty anything that was large was attributed to Egyptian Pharaohs and their families. In reality it is a temple dedicated to a god named Dushares commonly worshipped around 2000 years ago on the Arabian Peninsula.

In this case I had some nice lighting in the evening and spent a few shots trying to get some shots with the moon over the remains of the archway at the building entrance.

Slide scanned from Kodachrome 25 using a Canon 5Dmk IV on a copy stand.

QasrMoon.jpg


C&C always welcome.
 
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Ben Egbert

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My first impression was a natural arch, then I read and took another look. I think it fits here just fine. Good to see an unusual image like this.
 

JimFox

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Hey Alan, yeah I think it fits here, one day maybe we will add a forum category for historical buildings.

That's pretty cool looking. I do like the moon in this. I think I would do a pano crop on it though and lose the top half of the sky, it's too empty up there and I think it hurts rather then helps the image.
 

AlanLichty

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Good call on the crop - my notions of landscape image composition were a bit on the green side 40 years ago. I just built a copy stand so I could use my camera to digitize old slides. Turns out it makes my old slide scanner seem antiquated in comparing the results. I got lost in the process of making this image and didn't stop to really look at the scene.

This crop looks a lot better to me.

 
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