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The old man and nargile


The old man and nargile
Photo Information
Copyright: Yiannis Logiotatidis (logios) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 120 W: 28 N: 279] (1856)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-05-15
Camera: Nikon D70, Sigma 55-200 f/4-5,6
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/160 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-04-09 13:32
Viewed: 920
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Here we are in Amman , Jordan, in the heart of old market, with this friendly old man smoking nargile.
Some notes
The nargile (NAHR-gee-leh), or Turkish water pipe, is an old way of smoking Turkish tobacco.
The nargile consists of a glass bottle (sise, SHEE-sheh) into which a metal pipe device is placed. The bottle is half filled with water, and a long flexible hose (marpuç) is attached to the pipe. Atop the pipe are a small metal tray to catch cinders and above it a small cup-shaped bowl (lüle, LUR-leh) to hold the tobacco.

Cool-dude modern smokers sometimes drop a glow-stick into the bowl when smoking at night, to give a soft mellow light to the bubbling water.

A specially-formed plug of tobacco (tumbak or tömbeki) is placed in the lüle, and a glowing coal mangir) is placed atop the tobacco, igniting it. (The coal is of a special type chosen for its long-smouldering life.)

The smoker attaches a mouthpiece (sipsi, SEEP-see, or agizlik, ah-UHZZ-luhk) to the flexible hose, sucks on it, and draws tobacco smoke down through the pipe device, through the cooling water, along the flexible hose and into the mouth.
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Nice shot. Good composition.
Sergio

Μια θαυμάσια απεικόνηση της καθημερινότητας ενός μακρυνού λαού, με εξαιρετικό καδράρισμα, καθαρότητα και φυσικά χρώματα. Με τέτοιες ωραίες φωτό μπορεις να φτιάχνεις οδοιπορικά από τις μακρυνές σου περιπλανήσεις.
Καλό Πάσχα, και ευχαριστώ για τα καλά σου λόγια.
Βασίλης

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