Thanks for the tour, John. These are places I'll likely never see.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/15/2014 1:56 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> I went to the Lebanon and Syria in late June 1971 and have a few shots of my
> trip here:
>
> http://www.redrobinphoto.com/MiddleEast [all K25 slides taken with an M3
> with 35mm/f1.4 Summilux]
>
> The trees are the Cedars of the Lebanon, a national symbol. The tall columns
> seen left of centre in the mid distance of Tina's image are the remains of
> the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek. Superstition had it that if the ever
> present flocks of crows left the site the entire vicinity would be doomed.
> The 8th to 5th images at the end are of the "......the Umayyad Mosque, also
> known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus,
> is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. It is considered by
> some Muslims to be the fourth-holiest place in Islam" [quote from Wikipedia]
>
> The shade temperature at Baalbek was in the mid 30sC and the stone ground
> work hot enough to fry an egg !
>
> I suspect that Tina went to all of these places.
>
> jh
>
>
>
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> Subject: [OM] IMG: Baalbek and Roman Ruins
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>
>> PESO:
>>
>> I'm finally getting around to editing the 3500 photos I took in 2005 of a
>> trip to Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and Jordan. I processed enough of them to
>> put together the two presentations I was hired to do, but have avoided the
>> rest because it was when I was using Canon cameras and I dreaded fixing
>> the
>> files. Some of them are better than others, though. I like this one for
>> the juxtaposition of the current town against the Roman ruins:
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/154497150/large
>>
>> Hit Original if you want to see it larger.
>>
>> C&C greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Tina
>>
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