Christ Pantokrator, a photo from Blagoevgrad, West

Photographer's Note

Hristos Voskrese!
Happy Easter to everyone celebrating today!
For this reason I went trough my old photos and I found a few I made last year at the Rila monastery.
It is the biggest monastery complex in Bulgaria and probably the most visited one, included in the UNESCO world heritage list. It was established by St. Ivan Rilski in the beginning of the Xth century.
The monastery had been burned and destroyed many times during the Ottoman rule but constructed again. Nowadays it looks more like a fortress from the outside than a monastery, but that's how it was in past times.
The mural on the photo is of Christ Pantokrator and is one of the many at the outer side of the monastery church.

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CMJC (5097) 2008-04-27 3:58

it's the Orthodox easter today. have a happy Easter!
this paint is interesting because they are religious subjects but also zodiacal signs...

PixelTerror (0) 2008-04-27 10:05

HI Tsvetana,
Such artwork photo get less attention than sunsets or the like one TE, but they tell their lot about the world, here Bulgaria, and this one is fully appropriate for orthodox Easter, happy Easter to you ! Beautiful religious artwork btw, and good rendering of the many nice details.
Have a nice evening JY

worldcitizen (16104) 2008-04-27 12:21

Hello Tsvetana,
I hope you had a good Easter! I like your presentation of this beautiful detail from the monastery. The artwork and colors are really nice, and the circular patterns jump out boldly in the sqaure frame.

Jardim (3243) 2008-04-27 14:11

Ol� Tsvetana,

Good framework, colors and sharpness. The photo is a postcard.
J伃io Jardim

LeeLoo (0) 2008-04-29 5:50