Alhambra II# by artaddict2

Photography • Historical • posted on Feb 25, 2009

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Please zoom * Sneaked this one on before the workmen turn up. signing off now and packing the PC away.

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anahata.c

11:57AM | Sun, 22 March 2009

First, thank you so much for coming to my gallery on my birthday & extending your wishes in another gallery as well—much appreciated. Second, I've seen you in so many places here, I don't know why I never stopped in your gallery sooner. It's just time, and never being able to get to everyone I want...Well I chose this image at random, just to get a 'taste'; and brother did I pick a magical image! The Alhambra of course speaks for itself, it's a photographic cornucopia (or nightmare I guess, depending on one's point of view!). But what you've done with it is something else: You've given us a silvery soft light, a patina of a rare jewel, and it shimmers and it's soft & dreamy, but not too dreamy. It's like a picture seen through a beautiful window: It's touched by a patina of a veil. And your composition shows strong architectural sense (maybe you've done architectural shot alot, I don't know): A straight-on shot of the face of a great arch (atop) and its reflected arches behind. One of the glories of this style—like the Gothic in Western Europe—was to turn stone walls into sinews, and make them seem like webs letting-in light everywhere. You caught that, along with a wonderful slight sense of mist. Beautiful shot all around. I'll be back...

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