In Turkey many mosques, including this one, broadcast prayers, and accompanying roger beeps, on over-amplified, inferior public address equipment, thus obscuring the diction and creating a kind of pastiche of what might otherwise be a beautiful spiritual experience.
Cappadocia, once an important staging post on the Silk Road now has many abandoned cave houses such as the one in this photograph taken by Jeremy Maxwell, Fine Art Photographer, Turkey.
I snapped this with the E-3 fitted with the 25mm Panasonic Leica Summilux, which is undoubtedly my heaviest but best lens.
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Difficilis,querulus, laudator temporis acti.
Sepuero, castigator, cesorque minorum
Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray lives with his wife Irem, and daughter Amazon at Amos, Turunc near Marmaris, Turkey... . he is currently writing a series of three books about photography for publication on Amazon Kindle. The first of these 'Photography and Psychoanalysis' was published on May 10th, 2013.
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