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'Rent-a-Camel'


'Rent-a-Camel'
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Copyright: Hans Spruijt (GreenBaron) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3140 W: 796 N: 9688] (38635)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-06-15
Categories: Daily Life, Nature, Transportation, Mood
Camera: Minolta Z1
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Egypt 2004 [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2006-09-23 5:16
Viewed: 1424
Points: 28
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
On my tour through Egypt in 2004 I also visited the Sinai. It is an abandoned area where you only can find the St. Catherine’s Monastery. The ‘highlight’ of the Sinai dessert is the second highest point Mount Sinai (2,285 meter). The legend is that Moses received on this mountain the Ten Commandments. So this area is relatively popular. To ascend to the summit of the mountain is done every day by many people. Starting in the middle of the night gathering at the monastery to travel up the mountain. Of course the beginning is the easy part. But climbing a mountain via a small rocky path is not a sinecure. Almost everybody (the bright ones didn’t) carried a flashlight to lighten the path up! On several spots along the trek there were places to buy drinks. But also the Egyptian ‘businessman’ were there offering their camels to bring your tired body up. And I can assure you they didn’t accept a simple “No thank you”. Very insistent they kept offering their duties to the bushed people. So some did, although I can guarantee a ride on a camel going upwards is not a pleasure at all. Nevertheless I reached exhausted after a three hour climb the summit of the ‘holy’ mountain. On the top groups of religious people were praying and singing and waiting for a spectacular sunrise over the Sinai. And indeed the sunrise was fabulous! But when you are on the top you have to go down. Walking now in daylight was a more easy job. Still the ‘rent-a-camel’ business was hot. Again, riding a camel downwards is even more obnoxious than going up with such an animal and that except from the smell which is in all directions almost unbearable! After all I arrived around eight o’clock in the morning the monastery again and had a great breakfast from the monks.
About the picture. At the foot of the Mount Sinai the ‘rent-a-camel’ guys are doing their business. Not for me I went by foot up and down.

PS-talk:
- Increased contrast and brightness (+5)
- Increased saturation (+3)
- Cropped
- Framed

Mount Sinai (Arabic: جبل موسى), also known as Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Gebel Musa or Jabal Musa ("Moses' Mountain") by the Bedouins, is the name of a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula. At 2,285 metres high, it is the second highest mountain in the Sinai, after Mount St. Catherine,[1] and is in a mountain range in the southern part of the peninsula. It is near a protruding lower bluff known as Ras Sasafeh (Sufsafeh), and rises almost perpendicularly from the plain. The Monastery of St. Catherine is sited at the foot of the mountain, at an elevation of around 1,200m. Text from Wikipedia.com
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TFS this great shot, the calid tones in this are so great, i like it so much, and the info that you put here is reallye great, Thanks again

Hello Hans, Very beautiful image. Framing is impécable and we have right on two subjects which are completent perfectly without being obstructed. Cheer and thank you.
Stéphane

nice story with words and pic
sharp
colorful

A very interesting picture (and note). The colours are great and the image sharp. The framing, with the camels right at the bottom against the large mountain behind, is very effective.

Muy bien toda la foto, el nombre lo mejor.
Felicitaciones Hans.
Saludos.

hoi Hans, kleurvol, I like the way, the figures give a great sense od scale, thanx, M, (*_*)

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  • jan515 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2518 W: 48 N: 2993] (14124)
  • [2006-09-23 13:51]
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Hello Hans,
everything very well visible, beautiful you made, please it me well. Very good sharpness and excellent colors, beautifully. Congratulate.
Kind regards and Best wishes.

Janusz

Hello Hans, very well photographed and composed with all natural colours. I like your composition of 4 camels and the men.

Great note and instructive too.

very well done! Cheers, Yan :)
ps: Thank you very much for the crit on "Kayaking on the Gatineau River at Sunset". It's really appreciated.

Great shot, Hans. Me? Yeah, I'd take the camel any day (double humper of course!) I couldn't imagine being at the 'height' of the hump! Nice dof, pov, subject and note!

Excellent shot Hans, and a great note too. That does not look like a pleasant climb, you have portrayed those forbidding rocks very well indeed.
Great colours.
Thanks for sharing
Rew

Great colours and excellent composition. Very interesting story. And that blue sky can only be an African sky. Great photo from a fascinating country.

Excellent shot, my friend Hans nice color impressive mountain in thedesert.Very useful notes. Thanks for posting .
Best regards
Ioannis

wonderful, colorful, interesting!
tfs!!!

Great one, Hans with a smell of adventure !
The compo is nice and the title is funny.
No thanks, I won't rent one, it makes me sick travelling on that kind of "vehicle", better walk or hitch-hike ;)
TFS
Sylvie

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  • Alba Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 577 W: 0 N: 207] (2762)
  • [2007-01-09 17:09]

Hi Hans,
Camels are always so photogenic... Nice colours and composition to evocate these vessels of the desert on a montainous background.
Mary

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