Greece- Meteora N 4 (better seen large)

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 Another angle of one of 6  monasteries  that are still in use. A beautiful meeting with the Greek people and a trip to an unusual sight of nature and human spirit . A great wonder how they were built starting at  the 9th -11th century!.....
 

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Very beautiful!!

Very nice work to the series presenting the wonderful part of Greece. I guess the image would be very interesting in B&W too. I presume in conversion it to the B&W the sky will be black?

Alberto and Guunar !

Guunar you  were right about the B/W conversion, it is nice, so here it is for you and other visitors. The sky are partly black, but not completely,the clouds though are better seen in the B/W ...

Pnina, thank you for presenting it in B&W too. Some contrast may add dramatic atmosphere?

Wow, Pnina, what a fantastic location for a monastery. These are the kinds of images that seeded themselves into my mind as a boy - faraway places and knights and princesses and castles perched on cliffs. They excited me then and continue to excite the boy in me today.

Guunar, special thanks for taking the time, the added adjustment bring its details closer to the  viewer and it is very nice! but as in reality  the monasteries are far and not very close to the viewers, I think that  my B/W is closer to how they really look. Anyway it is a nice alternative!

 

Jack, as ususal your imagination is setting a very nice point...;-)) thanks for writing your point of view! and have kept some of your childhood! very important!

Sorry of the typo on your name...!

Very interesting image, Pnina. I prefer the BW version because the color one has that very saturated sky. I did a small version showing how I think it would have been better, hope you don't mind. Regards, Tibi

Thanks,I don't mind, and it is a good way to do it. The unusual thing is that Idid not add   saturation, the raw file came out with this sky color, and I have some more with this sky, so you were rigt in adjusting it  and I will do it to the rest of them as well!

Thanks for your  advice!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like all presented versions of this wonderful landscape with amazing shapes and curves, colors are really attractive in colour version eventhought i'm also inspired in B&W versions, specially the alternative one.

Nice to see you here  again, and thanks for liking the different alternatives. Thanks as well for your second comment ! ;-))

Wonderful and interesting view, Pnina, great job, abrazos. 

Pnina, The monks & nuns  lived in a different world those days. I am fascinated by the location and the architecture of these complex of buildings. Though you have taken this shot from a long distance, the sharpness and details of the image are commendable.

Mari ,great to see you again and have your impressions!

 

Amal,thanks for your answer, I hope you have brought with you as well some photographic  treasures...;-)).

 

I'm glad to see you here again,  and read  your  nice eloquent comments.

This is awesome.  I like it.

i prefer the color version. nice documentary. compliments -koushik

Now that's a retreat if I've ever seen one!  What a location!  Impressive place, and beautifully photographed.  I think even a little less blue sky might bring out the monastery a little more prominently.  But personally I prefer the color to the B&W. 

Bill, Koushik and Christal for expressing your impressions.A s I wrote before that  is the  sky that came out from the camera,. I still think that in  Tibi's version the sky are nicer...and I like both the B/W and the colored versions , but for my personal taste the colored version is the better from the two because of the dark rocks, the monasteries are a color points on them and therfor their details are better observed.

Whoa. A stunning view, I am sure. Thanks for sharing! 

It is images like this which take me to other places (that I may or may not see myself one day) but also to other times.  How many generations of monks lived and worshipped there, what they saw, the changes in governments and empires that took place around them.  Fascinating and beautiful.  

Thanks for your visit and comments.

I'm so glad that you liked it, as well as your photo in  the POW. Very  well photgraphed ,chosen to start with ,and great thread!