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Ceiling Mosaic
Ceiling Mosaic
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Challenge: Bits & Pieces II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon
Location: German WWI Cemetery, Bitola
Date: Jan 1, 2011
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1s
Date Uploaded: Jan 2, 2011

 This is inside the mausoleum of the WWI German cemetery in Bitola, where 3406 German soldiers are buried (cemetery was built in 1936). The town Bitola was on the front line during the first world war - the so-called Thessaloniki front. The town remained a front line city and was bombarded daily between 1916 and 1918, suffering almost total destruction.

Interesting story about this cemetery: when the Germans returned in WWII, seeing that the locals had maintained the cemetery through the years between the wars, in gratitude they replaced the old town clock with a working one.

The marble mosaic on the ceiling seemed appropriate for this challenge. Made from 3 exposures, tonemapped, topaz-ed, then changed my mind and turned it into a strong b&w. Suits the place and mood.

Statistics
Place: 26 out of 107
Avg (all users): 5.7281
Avg (commenters): 8.2000
Avg (participants): 5.8627
Avg (non-participants): 5.6190
Views since voting: 962
Views during voting: 201
Votes: 114
Comments: 6
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/09/2011 04:48:09 PM
you added to the complexity and the ornament


I'm hanging you in the Posthumous Art Gallery

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 01/09/2011 03:27:37 PM
Love the light coming through those upper windows
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 01/08/2011 06:52:31 AM
One of my favorites in the challenge, but, in my very humble opinion, there is much to be gained here with stronger blacks. 7
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 01/07/2011 10:34:22 PM
interesting
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 01/06/2011 07:07:44 AM
Just awesome. What a photograph. Lines and patterns and rays and cubes and all the geometric shapes in all the most pleasing tones. Killer.
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 01/05/2011 06:30:28 AM
Definitely fits the challenge theme well but other then that a bit uninspiring.
(not voting)
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