Apollon Temple, a photo from Aydin, Aegean

Photographer's Note

I used a funny filter for this shot :) do you have any guess??

Didyma, a famous temple for its oracles. This temple dedicated to Apollo was the richest and biggest of the Ionian temples on Anatolian soil. It was to cover such a vast area, that its construction lasted more than 150-200 years and yet it was planned to be without ceiling. Again after the "Ionian Rebellion", it was to Alexander the Great to order its restoration. On the ruins of the VIth century BC temple, a church was built during the Byzantine period. Though the ruins one can see today, are of pre-Christian age.

The temple was famous all over the Greek world for its oracles so that it even surpassed the reputation of Delphi.The reason for which the harbor of Panamos near Didyma became very busy and was visited by lots of commanders, ordinary and respected people, is that they wanted to learn their future from the priests of the temple. The oracle ceremonies were in two steps: the Pithy would first comment the glitters on the waters of a well and then the priests would translate these into literal and impressive words.

After the Lade War, many of the priests were to escape from the temple or killed by Alexander the Great and the temple of Didyma remained an unimportant temple till the Roman time.

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serdarhepgul (1744) 2005-09-30 13:10

Ellerinize sağlık
Serdar

selman (371) 2005-09-30 13:45

Basarılı bir kompozisyon. Hususi olarak böyle yaptınıgız asikar ama ben sarı agırlıklı olan bu renk tonunu sev(e)medim :) Auto Level, "blue" ve "cyan" artırdıgımızda ortaya cok daha güzel bir renk cıkıyor bence.
Bir de sag kösedeki yesillik kompozisyona uymamıs gibi. Kesseydiniz keske. Bir workshop hazırladım ama gün icinde iki tane daha yolladıgım icin gönderebilir miyim, bilmiyorum. Eger olmazsa kusura bakmayınız :)

Tebrikler :)
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Edit : Denedim, olmuyor.

dbezan (166) 2005-09-30 13:56

Very dramatic contrast and good detail of the friezes on the columns.

ahmet54 (3600) 2005-09-30 14:33

Merhaba Mine,
Didim'deki Apollon mabedinin güzel bir resmini cektiniz. Kompozisyon iyi. Ama renklerle neler yaptiniz? Ben bir WS denedim.
Ümit ederim ki, hosunuza gitsin.
Selamlar Roland (ahmet54)

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bpelvan (3798) 2005-10-04 12:57

Merhaba Mine,
Aslında çok fena değil renkler. Curves ile biraz karartıp gün batımı kızıllığı (hafif) yakalanabilir.
Ama mabed muhteşem görünüyor. Baktığın açı gayet iyi. ellerine sağlık...
Bülent

Fis2 (170693) 2005-10-13 17:14

Hi Mine!
Your photo is wonderful.
I like the composition and colours.
Super light!
Very impressive picture.
Regards
Krzysztof

valdec (7367) 2005-10-20 10:47

Hi
w³a¶ciwe to ju¿ chyba wsyscy wszystko napisali - cudowna kolorystyka, kompozycja ¶wiatlo , fantastyczne

ixtanbul7 (447) 2005-11-16 2:30

Bu resim de cok hos. Ozellikle renkler. Sari agirlikli olmasi ayri bir hava katmis resme... Sagda biraz fazlalik var ama gerisi muhtesem. Isigin bol olsun.

johnhopkins (866) 2006-05-13 13:39

Nice shot Mine with the columns standing so proud against the sky and the shorter columns making the foreground.

xsanthos (275) 2006-10-30 4:25

Her görüşün kendine göre haklılık yanı var. Resmin rengi o resme nasıl bir ruh hali ile baktığınıza göre değişir. Böyle güzel olmuş.

Tebrikler.

nedim (77) 2006-11-15 9:20

Cok guzel bir kompozisyon. Renkler makinenin sephia butonuyla yakalanmis izlenimini veriyor. Bence kusursuz.

fotohadi (2967) 2007-01-19 8:30

Merhaba Mine hanım.Spia ton güzellik katmış,gökyüzü tonu ndan biraz sarılık alınsa daha iyi olurdu görüşündeyim.

batalay (41261) 2007-09-11 8:29

Merhaba Mine,

Bu hafta sonu Didimde olucaganizdan ve Milet'i ziyaret etmek istediginizden bahsetmistiniz. Buralar hakikate hayran oldugum yerler, ve dogrusu çok kiskandim. Buradan ihtibaren Inglizce yaziyorum, sonra Türkçe yazmaya dönerim.

Milet, "Miletus," is where science was born. The 7th century BC natural philosopher Thales of Miletus, founded an academy where he taught that natural phenomena could be explained by natural laws and one did not have to attribute them to the whims and vagaries of the Gods. His expression of "natural laws" represents the laws of physics and chemistry. It was an astonishing time with other philosophers/student/scholars including Anaximenes, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Heraclitus and others. Another natural philospher who came from this area (Island of Samos) was Aristarchus who taught that the sun was at the center of the Cosmos, and not the earth. He is know as the "Copernicus of Antiquity." Continuing in Turkish...

Insallah bol resim çekersiniz. Dün aksam Crystal Cruise Vapur seyahatinden haber aldim. Gelicek yil Agustos ayinda kisa 1-2 günlügüne Istanbul'a gelicegiz. Kardesimin evinde bir Trekearth çayi (partisi) yapmak istiyorum. Insallah 21-22 Agustos siralarinda Istanbulda bulunursunz. Telefonda kardesim'e söyledigim vakit, "Sen gel de istedigin gibi bir parti yapariz," demisti. Ona göre siz de düsünmeye baslayin -- kimler var orada bir liste yapaya basliyalim.

Didim harika bir vakit geçirin,

Bülent

PiPan (0) 2007-11-18 8:57

I'm sure about "The toast", Apollo, Pan and still standing Pi in picture.