Princess Hotel Ortakoy
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Ortakoy, Istanbul, TR
Made by fikretonal
update: Jan 07, 2008 Intelligent Traveller's choice for the week of Jan 07, 2008: intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/01/global-eye-turk.... Ortakoy Mosque has a unique heritage in this neighborhood and I had been planning for a long time to capture it. It was before sunrise on a Sunday morning right in front of the Bosphorus Bridge, where the two continents (Europe and Asia) are almost touching each other. I was a little bit late and I did not know exactly from where the sun would be coming up. And it was an overcast, dull morning and most of the fishermen had already left for fishing. Luckily there were still three vessels there waiting for duty. And there were still some people hanging around, burning their candles at both ends, and a bunch of university students making music, playing guitar and singing all together out loud. The lights on the bridge and the mosque were still on and turned off right after taking this shot. Otherwise, most likely the façade of the mosque would have been too dark. I live in Toronto, and my mom and sister live in Istanbul. I was there to visit them last summer for a short period of time. However, I was dying to spare some time in the city to take some photographs, so we made a deal the previous night with my little nephew and my mom to wake up really early in the pitch dark to go to Ortakoy. The only reason that I had to make this deal was to make sure that this mischievous 8-year old boy would not cry out for being woken up in the middle of his sleep. It turned out that he loved to carry up my tripod even though he was still sleepy. I still shoot film with my Canon EOS ELAN 7N camera. I used Velvia 50 film and Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM lens at f/22 around 18mm to have enough DOF to get the mosque, Bosphorus Bridge at the back and the leading poles at the front all the way sharp. Since the sky was so boring, I attached my 1-stop graduated tobacco and 1-stop graduated neutral density Cokin filters to give a try.
halife merdivenleri / caliph's stairs
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A view from the Caliph's stairs in the Dolmabahce Palace.
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b-boy instanbul'dan kazandi
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mavi salon / blue saloon
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Nearest places of interest:
| Etz Ha Hayim Sinagogu Ortakoy Square Esma Sultan Yalısı Gaziosmanpaşa Ortaokulu | Reina Club Turkcell Kuruçeşme Arena Yildiz Palace Yıldız Abdulhamit Camii |
