Back in town, a photo from Ghat, West

Photographer's Note

Day VIII

After the last moutains and the last dunes, we arrive in Ghat. Ghat is a sad and lost town in the desert.

Every people flying back to Europe was here, while waiting for the plane. The place was then a little overcrowded, especially after a week a peace and silence.

That's why it was a little hard to enjoy walking there, even if the old city and the citadel were finally worth it...

weswang, Tue, jmdaoudal, aloyho has marked this note useful

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Fis2 (170639) 2006-01-24 15:57

Witaj Stephane!
Wonderful place. I like the light and colours. Good composition. Great sky. Very impressive picture!
Greetings
Krzysztof

weswang (18247) 2006-01-24 17:11

Hi Stephane, This is a very special looking city with its own characters. A nice shot with good PoV and DoF to show the details of the foreground as well as the open view to the background. Nice contrast and good clarity. Well done.

gilou530 (34) 2006-01-24 17:26

salut stephane
voila donc la cit� de tous les d駱arts, effectivement c'est une vieille ville, tu as su trouv� l'endroit calme de tous touristes pour cette photo.
amiti駸
gilbert

Ejla (439) 2006-01-24 17:30

My husband dreams of going to New York...looking at your photos, I wish to go to Libya

Tue (92302) 2006-01-24 18:24

Bonsoir St駱hane,
Nice view over this old city. I like the castle on top of the mountain. Well composed shot with fine colours. Good work!
Hilsner,
Lars

Graal (103040) 2006-01-25 2:53

Hi Stephane,
another interesting photo from the Libya. Good composition and nice warm colours. I like it a lot. Good captured and well done.
Rgs, Aleksander

jasmis (58653) 2006-01-25 3:46

Excelent and exotic landscape. Warm colours. I need it now when in Katowice is 20 degrees below zero. Regards, Stephane!

rosaline (0) 2006-01-25 4:17

Hi Stephane
Back in town eh? Hope you had a good trip wherever you've been. I've never been to Ghat, though I did go to Ghadames, which was spectacular. Great shot here, it looks a little like a Moroccan casbah. Nice light and exposure and good framing as usual. Nice work.
Aubrey

kevinos (7517) 2006-01-25 4:23

A very atmospheric image,Stephane, well worth your walk.

xavshot (69835) 2006-01-25 12:55

Hello St駱hane
tu t'es superbement bien d饕rouill� sur cette photo pour ne pas avoir tout ces touristes dont tu parles dans ta note... l'endroit semble bien pr駸erv� et le cadrage que tu as choisi est excellent. Mention sp馗iale pour ces dunes du fond qui donnent un belle couleur dor馥.
Bravo
Xavier

ndb1958 (9289) 2006-01-25 12:55

Beautiful panorama, St駱hane. Colours and lightning are very nice. Nino

Didi (61589) 2006-01-25 15:07

Bonsoir Stephane
Magnifique citadelle parfaitement cadr馥 baign馥 d'une lumi鑽e lat駻ale qui accentue le relief.
Mais quelle est donc l'origine de cette ville ?

Kenny10pin (19301) 2006-01-26 9:37

very ncie shot here of the buildngs of sadn, very good perspective and also the colours are great, well done

jbweasle (9393) 2006-01-26 10:49

Hi Stephane, I loved your desert pics bit it's good to see that there is more in Libya! Nice composition with the castle on the hill in the top corner, dropping away to the town below.

jmdaoudal (82) 2006-01-26 12:01

Malgr� le sinconv駭ients du voyage, elle vaut le coup d'oeil cette citadelle du D駸ert. La photo est bonne mais la lumi鑽e ('est normal pour l'endroit) me semble un peu dure et accentue le cot� rocailleux de l'endroit, j'aurais peu 黎re (c'est peut 黎re pas possible sur place) Cerch� un POV un peu plus � droite et un peu plus 駘ev� pour donner de l'importance aux ruines qui se trouvent en bas, en effet la citadelle peut devenir un 駘駑ent secondaire en r馘uisant la part de la surface ombr馥).
Mais tout cela n'est que supputation.
jean Michel

tjanze (5674) 2006-01-26 14:17

Hi Stephane,

Great panorama photo.From the castle must be a great view.Good composition,colours and light.

aloyho (6798) 2006-01-28 3:36

Hi Stephane,
Quite a change now that we are back in town. With the nice blue sky and the beautiful cloud you can really heave a sigh of relief. You managed the light well and it looks like a good time of the day with all those good shadows to bring out the shapes. I must say I enjoyed this desert trip tagging along behind you. Well done!! Best regards.

pamastro (7296) 2006-02-06 12:29

I just looked at a fortress in Sion that jrzuffery posted and now this one in Libya. Two totally different settings but both equally as beautiful. And both places have fortresses that match their settings. Here the large rock this fortress sits on appears massive and horizontal topped by an equally massive and horizontal fort. And you capture the lonliness of this last outpost here. The emptiness, the roughness of the rocks, the dunes and mountains in the distance. It's really the last place on earth. And it watches out over the great unknown beyond in its lonliness. Very well done Stephane.

abulafia (4900) 2006-05-03 5:27

Nice work Stephane
i like your composition, where you can see the citadel and part of the landscape at the same time. and the colours are great.
Harry