BernardL
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Stunning. These landscapes and monuments must be known, for sure, but I've never seen them pictured like that.
tsiklonaut
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In the night they are lit up with a completely different look.
Hey mr. Policeman, I only want to make a picture of that shiny nice building behind you...
tsiklonaut
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And a closer look of endless hours work investment into those fine details.
The locals are proud and take lots of selfies in front. Islam strictly does not allow depictions of any live being in Koran or any holy site like mosque.
Hence the two tigers and horses on that mosque wall has been a huge controversy and fight between the islamic scholars here.
Interestingly they are still depicted and not removed after centuries - maybe there's hope?
tsiklonaut
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Thanks Bernard!
They are very known for historians and for those travellers who seek alternative or more challanging routes, but much less known for "normal" ("NYC" or "Paris" type of a-) tourist.
Thud
Established
WOW
They are GREAT.
They are GREAT.
tsiklonaut
Well-known
Thanks man!
tsiklonaut
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Minaret.
Shapes of millenia
tsiklonaut
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The garden.
A lone tree before a dome.
tsiklonaut
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The unique Chor Minor mosque, the towers are not minarets, three of them used for storage and one has a staircase leading to top floor.
Each tower has a ceramic tiles covering it with different deco motifs.
Those now futuristic-looking shapes are created out of pure efficient defense practice against the conquerors and built 1000 years ago.
tsiklonaut
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A millenia old wall, the local people roam on to their daily work through many generarions.
Out to Lunch
Ventor
Great! Keep on posting...I hope you have some more in store.
Abbazz
6x9 and be there!
Brillant picture. Thank you for sharing these wonderful shots from a little known part of the world.
A millenia old wall, the local people roam on to their daily work through many generarions.
And kudos to your dedication to film photography. Traveling the world with two Pentax 6x7 bodies, a Fuji GA645 and a Horizont panoramic camera is an extraordinary feat!
Cheers!
Abbazz
tsiklonaut
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Termezian man visiting holy sites in his Uzbek backyard. A great intelligent fellow to talk to. He invited us to Afghan border to show us around the holy spots of islam,
unfortunately our route didn't go there. Maybe someday...
Tunnel, it's in the darkness where the human imagination lights up.
tsiklonaut
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Thanks, Abbazz!
I do have some in store, it seems to me the film photography isn't much liked though since it doesn't "connect" with the new age young photogrpahers who haven't used film and only know digital. If I was travelling with some super-duper expensive Leica digital rangefinder or Canon 5D mark zillion, or Nikon Dzillion or something this thread would be much more popular I guess...
robert blu
quiet photographer
I come regularly to this thread, mainly for three reasons, which are somehow related each other.
Number one is the spirit of adventure which is evident, number two is the possibility to see with the eye of a real traveler places which I' ll never see otherwise and number three is the quality of the pictures, both from a technical point of view and also form the aesthetic point of view.
Your dedication to photography in form of film photography is what makes the photos excellent. Keep posting please !
robert
Number one is the spirit of adventure which is evident, number two is the possibility to see with the eye of a real traveler places which I' ll never see otherwise and number three is the quality of the pictures, both from a technical point of view and also form the aesthetic point of view.
Your dedication to photography in form of film photography is what makes the photos excellent. Keep posting please !
robert
tsiklonaut
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Thank you so much for the feedback, Robert!
The following of the film travel photography is indeed a very tiny but looks like it's passionate just like the film photographers themselves. There's an old saying that just a few passionate people can outweigh a countless gray mass of bores.
I'll keep on posting as the time provides.
Cheers,
Margus
tsiklonaut
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Streetlife.
One of the madrasas in Bukhara.
tsiklonaut
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Those walls and angles looks rather surreal.
Persian style cooling towers to bring the wind down into the buildings.
tsiklonaut
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You don't own the path, the path owns you.
As we left the great city in the desert.
tsiklonaut
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Dried up Aral sea. So awkward to see and walk in the place that used to be many meters underwater. It's one of the biggest man-made ecological disasters in history.
The picture doesn't do justice how big those ships are, in a very alienated environment - a bone dry desert with water nowhere in sight.