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Dusk and Koutoubia


Dusk and Koutoubia
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Copyright: Catherine M D (noborders) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 136 W: 0 N: 158] (724)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006
Categories: Nocturnal
Exposure: f/3.5, 1/25 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-03-09 4:02
Viewed: 830
Points: 10
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The little open air restaurants have just been mounted again for the night and are opening ; the bigger crowd will arrive after sunset.

This view was taken just before the opening of the film festival of Marrakech, a giant screen was being mounted on the west side of the square.

South of this main square (Djemma el Fna), is the very famous Koutoubia minaret :

(From ilove-marrakesh.com website :
« built by Sultan Abdeloumen in the 12th century, the « booksellers Mosque » owes its name to the hundreds of manuscript sellers who set up shop around it upon its foundation. Its architecture and richness of decoration make it one of the masterpieces of Hispano-Moorish art. Its minaret is the elder brother of the Giralda (in Seville) and the Tour Hassan (in Rabat). 69m high (77 at the tip of the lanternon), it is built from Gueliz limestone and its external decoration, differing on each face, is a mixture of floral and graphic ornementation, interlacings, bands of earthenware tiling and intermingled arcading.

Today, we can still see it from far off on the Haouz plain, proudly rearing above the City’s rampart.)
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Nice lights and a beautiful sunset in the background. Very nice festive atmsphere.

Hi Catherine,
I find you picture amazing and so lively. The atmosphere is magic and inviting . Of course it would be nice to see a larger format of it ... tfs
Jean-Pierre

Hi Dear Catherin

Very Nice Sunset & shot.

Mamnoon az inke sar mizanid .

Ghorbane Shoma. Amir

Catherine,

Nice view!

pleasant for me!

Regards!

Hi Catherine,

I returned a little behind his album, and I could find this beautiful image for here.
Nice lights and a beautiful sunset.
Great capture and beautiful visual!
Congratulations

Sérgio
:)

Hi Cath, nice nocturnal shot. The colors in sky and lights are very good. TFS

Vandana

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