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Wordless Wednesday – Night & Day

12 November, 2008 by Adam R. Paul

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Ayasofya AKA the Haghia Sofia (~535AD), Istanbul, Turkey

10 Responses

on 12 November, 2008 at 15:19 Evita

Wow that is one amazing structure! Great capture. Both those photos have their own pizazz and give a different personality to the building.
on 12 November, 2008 at 18:40 montucky

Two beautiful perspectives! Very well done!
on 12 November, 2008 at 19:05 Tom @ Ohio Nature

Hi Adam- These are great pictures. Have you ever submitted them to any of the stock photography websites like Istockphoto or Shutterstock? I’ve been messing around with selling some of my shots there- I think many of your images would sell, especially travel shots, etc.

Tom
on 13 November, 2008 at 05:34 Nina

Wow–those are fantastic!
on 13 November, 2008 at 07:34 scienceguy288

I heard that this structure was built to resist earthquakes. Even at that time, such amazing engineering.
on 13 November, 2008 at 09:03 Adam R. Paul

Evita: Welcome, and thanks for commenting!

Montucky: Thank you!

Tom: Thx. I have not explored the microstock sites. Perhaps one of these days, although I’d think that to be successful on them, you would have to take shots with an eye towards selling them as stock, which would be a shift for me.

Nina: Thanks!

Scienceguy: Wikipedia has a great article on Ayasofya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haghia_Sofia – in short I don’t think it was built w/earthquakes in mind so much, but was damaged during several, and the repairs certainly kept them in mind. Interestingly, the addition of the 4 minarets by the famous Islamic architect Sinan has helped to stabilize the structure by weighting its corners. According to the wiki article, Sinan was one of the first earthquake engineers.
on 13 November, 2008 at 22:48 Thomas

Both the images are amazing, however the night shot scores over the day shot by a huge margin. Very well done
on 14 November, 2008 at 21:43 Onsite Minnesota Photography, Minneapolis

Wow. That’s beautiful! I love both the day and night images.
on 15 November, 2008 at 12:31 Adam R. Paul

Thomas: Thank you

OMP,MN: Welcome, and thanks for commenting!
on 26 November, 2008 at 16:41 ankush vimawala

awesome shots of this marvelous monument