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Istanbul
Islam is the predominant religion in Turkey yet it is illegal for women to cover their faces in public buildings, universities and libraries. A female professor of history I spoke with was adamant that, in a civilised society, we need to see each other’s face when we communicate.
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Blue Mosque:
St. Sophia’s: once a church, then a mosque, now a museum:
The Grand Bazaar:
Bosphorous Bridge:
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Olympia and Delphi
Mycenae
Mycenae and Agamemnon’s tomb, the Beehive Tomb. My camera body chose this moment to self destruct, reducing me to using a point and shoot until we returned to Athens, where my wife compelled me to buy a new body. Not that I was complaining.
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Yours truly standing in front of an antique windmill clutching his new camera body, which cost him considerably more than it was worth before the 23% tax which the EU refused to refund despite strenuous protests:
Agamemnon’s tomb:
Mycenae:
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Corinth
Athens
While we were in Greece there was a one day strike which disrupted very little – for us, at least – and we saw some of the demonstrations in Athens; no violence, though. The locals we spoke to were sympathetic to the demonstrators but had no use for the rioters who, they were convinced, were imported professional agitators.
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The Acropolis
Mars Hill where St. Paul preached:
Street vendor:
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The Monasteries of Metéora, Greece
These six Greek Orthodox monasteries, built between the 14th and 16th centuries, are located at Metéora and most are perched on high cliffs accessible by staircases cut into the rock and through a basket or net that is lowered by a rope from the top. Supplies are still hoisted up this way and, at one time, the monks were too.
The narthex of each, where unbaptized worshippers had to wait, is decorated with scenes of gruesome torture that early Christians had to endure: dismemberment, disembowelling, flaying and similar disincentives to holding fast to Christianity. The idea was to impress on new or prospective converts the sacrifices made by their forebears. Not what we would think of today as a warmly welcoming seeker friendly experience – but it worked, apparently.
To my intense annoyance, my DSLR body chose the second day of our excursion to self-destruct, so these photos are taken with a very limited point and shoot camera. Such was my frustration that my wife persuaded me to buy a replacement body when we returned to Athens.
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The Moon
The moon this evening was 356,577 kilometres away – the closest to earth it has been for 18 years.
It was a lovely clear night and this is what it looked like from my back garden in Oakville.
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Internet Explorer 9 not much use for photographers
I wanted to like IE9, I really did: it is very fast and has a number of useful built-in security features.
Unfortunately, it is next to useless if you are a photographer and want to see images on a wide-gamut monitor – something photographers usually have – with anything like accurate colours.
All wide-gamut monitors come with colour profiles that Windows can use to correctly display colour information. Unfortunately Microsoft has never used these profiles in any of its version of Internet Explorer; instead it uses a default sRGB profile – IE9 is no exception. This results in every image appearing super-saturated on a wide-gamut monitor. Ironically, Microsoft trumpets IE9’s ability to correctly extract embedded colour profiles from images – but it then proceeds to nullify its efforts by displaying the image using an sRGB profile, regardless of the monitor.
Firefox has used monitor colour profiles for some time, so it’s back to Firefox for me.
For example. This is what Ava should look like:
And this is how IE9 displays her on a wide gamut monitor:
Update: I just installed Firefox 4.0 RC1 and it seems to be as fast – or almost as fast – as IE9. And the colours are right. Lot’s of other improvements, too.
