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Ascend to the Panagia of Tinos (5)
Xalkida Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 492 W: 114 N: 531] (2753)
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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Xalkida Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 492 W: 114 N: 531] (2753)
Lighting & noise
Edited by:Dingo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2744 W: 369 N: 2624] (11948)
Μπάμπη, I agree with David's remarks.
Worked with MS PictureIt : used magic wand to select the sky, copied to separate layer, and applied noise reduction to it : luminant noise 60, chromatic noise 20.

Used levels auto fix on the background layer, and applied very little sharpening...