Jerusalem, Last Rays of Light (please see large)

 

Jerusalem, is not a regulare city. It is a city with a very long history and many " faces". Holy and Mundane.

Some of it's life ,architecture ,events, and people, I will upload for your impressions.

 

This is a part of Jerusalem at the very end of the day, seen from the Olive Mount. The golden dome is the " dome of the rock", behind parts of the old walls of the city.

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I love this city ...

Incredible details, Great DOF & light, fantastic exposure balance, splendid composition, WONDERFUL CAPTURE, Pnina!!! Best regards

Very nice capture here, well exposed and composed photograph

 

Wishing you all of the best

A beautiful image, Pnina. I like particularly the delicate light and the color accent of the golden dome in the middle. Viewed large, this picture looks even more impressive.

Amazing; could Jesus have imagined...

 

Well of course; anyway, time and history do so much to a place and so many people have lived their lives here in radically different settings. I would have never pictured Jerusalem to look like this. To this day Jerusalem registers in my mind as dirt streets being plyed by merchants with pack donkeys. Thanks for erasing the sterotypes, Pnina. Stay well. ~Sky

Thanks Gershon, Richard, Rashed, Vrindavan, Matthias and sky, I appreciate your feedback.

 

Sky, Jerusalem is a very beautiful and special city.I'm glad that my photo, and there will be more changed your wrong idea of the city.To visit that city is a special experience, to all people, and all religions.

 

 

Beautiful.Significant point of focus,Pnina.

 

Thanks,

 

sally

I love the golden light against the blue shadows, and then of course, the brilliantly golden dome.

 

 

Perhaps one day, I'll be able to see it with my own eyes, rather than having to borrow others' vision. Thanks for giving me something to look forward to.

Thanks Sally and Jeff.

 

Jeff, I hope you will be able to see it in your own eyes, it is worth the sight!

Pnina, what a superb (and superbly detailed) picture. The slight haze and the last rays glinting off the dome give the picture an air of super reality as if I'm standing on a hill and looking down on the scene in person. It's a rare effect and one not easily accomplished. One must have both skill and the luck to be there (with camera) when conditions are perfect as they were here.

Jack, thanks! I did not know if the haze is not a distraction for some. but your good eye reasured me... Thanks my friend!

A wonderful image!

It leaves me breathless. I can stare at this for hours. This is the kind of picture that I hope to take when I visit Israel.

Love how you've decided to capitalize on the selective illumination of the light to crerate a "focal point" in this image. Really well done. Regards.

Oh, Pnina - how did I miss this gem? It's beautiful - your city is beautiful! I SO very much want to go there some day. I have a couple of friends who are Biblical scholars and who lead trips to Israel. I want to get into one of their groups one of these years and see this place that I only really ever read about. The wall, the buildings, the old and the new together ... amazing! Thank you SO much for posting this!

What a beautiful photograph - the city with so much meaning to so many of the world's peoples. I do hope that eventually all the peoples of the middle east, in fact, all of the world, can step back for a moment and look at the beauty and significance of Jerusalem and realize that Peace is the answer, and that Love is the 'roadmap' to Peace. Shalom, and thank you for sharing this incredible image, Pnina. Cheers! Chris

Lou Ann, I hope it will not take years;-)) till you take that tour! it is worth every minute. the city is a gem!

 

Chris, thanks so much! the city is open to all worshipers,We hope that peace will come to the city of love and faith , and to us the inhabitant.Shalom is our dream.

lovely. What a pity, the modern city closes in... cheers Jana

This is a wonderful capture and holds special meaning for me. I took photos from this same vantage point in 1981 with film. It is a magical, wondrous and dangerous place. I was moved by sitting in the Garden of Gethsemane among the same olive trees that Jesus was in the night before his death. It seems this place, more than any other, is the central geographic point where cultures clash, violence breeds and humans continue to misunderstand each other...to the peril of us all.

 

Thank you for the memory and a fine image!

 

Dick

Richard, I'm glad it brought you such memories. the place is not dangerous, but the situation in general is complicated.

 

Thanks for your feeback and telling your memories.

Beautiful capture! I wish peace for the people of Jerusalem.

Thanks, I wish as you are , and pray for peace in this beautiful city which suffers a lot.