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Ascend to the Panagia of Tinos


Ascend to the Panagia of Tinos
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Copyright: Mpampis Mantoukas (Xalkida) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 492 W: 114 N: 531] (2753)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2002-08-05
Categories: Daily Life, Event
Camera: Canon EOS 300, Fuji Superia 400
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2004-10-01 15:14
Viewed: 999
Points: 5
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a street scene from the city of Tinos, at Tinos island, Kyklades.

This street is not an ordinary street: is the street who lead to the great church of Panagia of Tinos (Virgin Mary of Tinos). Not surprise? Ok.

Here in Greece we believe in a religion procedure called Tama (=Solemn promise). We do a tama to a saint or to the Virgin Mary for cure a loved person or for a birth of a child etc. The special tama that the orthodox christians doing to Virgin Mary is to climb this street (I think it's about 1 kilometer of something like that) with naked knees (!!) and especially at the season near Virgin Mary's birthay (15th of August). Think: to climb this street with your naked knees in the middle of a very hot summer month (for Greece) and under your naked knees and hands the flamed asphalt! Real achievement!
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To Dingo: Thank you for your commentsXalkida 1 10-01 16:11
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Nice photo and a good angle. We can see the church on the top of the street. I never saw a pavement like that. Looks like some kind of marble.

There's something wrong with the colors here. I think there's to much magenta on the photo. You can use color balance in Photoshop to add a bit more green to correct this.
The photo is also a bit blured. You can sharpen it and then use the blur tool to blur the sky that is a bit noisy too.
Sorry so manny sugestions :)

Nice capture of this long torturing road, Μπάμπη. I stood at that exact spot some odd 13 years ago. TFS.

I agree with David about the colours and the noise in the sky. I prepared a WS.

Why did you use a 400 ISO film in this bright light ? I think a 100 ISO would be better (less grain)...

I do agree that 100 speed film may hav been a better choice but you probably only had 400. The hill in your shot looks like a hard long walk and the brightness of the shot makes me think it's vry hot there.

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