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Message 8518 (24. Mar. 2009 14:29) (Tree)

Bernhard
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Pictures from Nile Cruise
: I love the pictures and love your photography! I appreciate this even more since I study this stuff in art history. Your photos should be in the book!! Thanks so much for sharing. ;-D

Thanks for the compliments, Claudine. Of course I can also send you a high-res version of any of the pictures should you want it.
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Bernhard: Pictures from Nile Cruise (23. Mar. 2009 23:16)
 Finally I got round to scanning my photos and I have selected a few of them to put into a page about my vacation on the Nile: http://adinfinitum.de/Egypt09/
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Jay: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 03:36)
 : Finally I got round to scanning my photos and I have selected a few of them to put into a page about my vacation on the Nile: http://adinfinitum.de/Egypt09/

WOW!!!! I live a couple of miles from the "Luxor" here in Vegas, but it's nowhere near as cool as the one in your album! LOL!
Seriously, Bernard. Incredible images of Amazing paces. Thanks. And Good Job on the behind-the-lens work, Bro. I saw my Mom's pics from her trip to Egypt from last year, & I LOVE MY MOM, but they didn't do the Majesty of the place Justice. Looks like you captured some of that.....thanks for the beautiful pictures.
PEACE............................Jay
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biffsk8er: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 07:33)
 : : Finally I got round to scanning my photos and I have selected a few of them to put into a page about my vacation on the Nile: http://adinfinitum.de/Egypt09/

Fantastic clarity! I feel as if I'm there! Are a lot of those sculptures and buildings reworked? Looks like they were rebuilt.
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joe90: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 08:07)
 Nice postcards MrB, obviously mine is still in transit.
Exelent work by the way,you do the place justice.
Thanx for sharing.

cheers joe

: : Finally I got round to scanning my photos and I have selected a few of them to put into a page about my vacation on the Nile: http://adinfinitum.de/Egypt09/
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: WOW!!!! I live a couple of miles from the "Luxor" here in Vegas, but it's nowhere near as cool as the one in your album! LOL!
: Seriously, Bernard. Incredible images of Amazing paces. Thanks. And Good Job on the behind-the-lens work, Bro. I saw my Mom's pics from her trip to Egypt from last year, & I LOVE MY MOM, but they didn't do the Majesty of the place Justice. Looks like you captured some of that.....thanks for the beautiful pictures.
: PEACE............................Jay
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Bernhard: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 08:59)
 : WOW!!!! I live a couple of miles from the "Luxor" here in Vegas, but it's nowhere near as cool as the one in your album! LOL!

But it's probably also warmer in your Luxor than in Germany. ;-)

: Seriously, Bernard. Incredible images of Amazing paces. Thanks. And Good Job on the behind-the-lens work, Bro. I saw my Mom's pics from her trip to Egypt from last year, & I LOVE MY MOM, but they didn't do the Majesty of the place Justice. Looks like you captured some of that.....thanks for the beautiful pictures.

Thank you for the kind words! I do not consider myself much of a location photographer (well, I think my subject rather is skate pictures) but as you said: The place is just impressive.
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Bernhard: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 09:08)
 : Fantastic clarity! I feel as if I'm there! Are a lot of those sculptures and buildings reworked? Looks like they were rebuilt.

Some of those places have been excavated only recently, like the Luxor temple. When I was there, they where excavating a 3.6 km long avenue of sphinxes connecting the Karnak temple and the Luxor temple.

Some temples have been moved to save them from the waters of Lake Nasser which they created by bulding the big Assuan dam (which is 100 m high, by the way). Abu Simbel has been carved up and relocated to the shore of the lake, the Philae temple has been moved to a new island.

Most of the stuff is original, but there are reproductions like the barque in the inner sanctum of the Horus temple. All the temple facades had been colorful but of the colors almost nothing is left. There are some colors left at the Hatshepsout temple and also in the graves in the valley of the kings. But you aren't allowed to take pictures there, probably because they fear that the flashes will harm the colors (or because they want to sell books and postcards ;-)).
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Bernhard: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 09:09)
 : Nice postcards MrB, obviously mine is still in transit.
: Exelent work by the way,you do the place justice.
: Thanx for sharing.

Hey Joe, thanks for the kind words! I am happy that you liked the postcards!
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claudine: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 14:06)
 I love the pictures and love your photography! I appreciate this even more since I study this stuff in art history. Your photos should be in the book!! Thanks so much for sharing. ;-D

: : Finally I got round to scanning my photos and I have selected a few of them to put into a page about my vacation on the Nile: http://adinfinitum.de/Egypt09/
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: WOW!!!! I live a couple of miles from the "Luxor" here in Vegas, but it's nowhere near as cool as the one in your album! LOL!
: Seriously, Bernard. Incredible images of Amazing paces. Thanks. And Good Job on the behind-the-lens work, Bro. I saw my Mom's pics from her trip to Egypt from last year, & I LOVE MY MOM, but they didn't do the Majesty of the place Justice. Looks like you captured some of that.....thanks for the beautiful pictures.
: PEACE............................Jay
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Bernhard: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 14:29)
 : I love the pictures and love your photography! I appreciate this even more since I study this stuff in art history. Your photos should be in the book!! Thanks so much for sharing. ;-D

Thanks for the compliments, Claudine. Of course I can also send you a high-res version of any of the pictures should you want it.
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zorg: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 21:18)
 thats's very very nice!!!! would like to go there too now ;-)

Did you find some skateparks over there??


: : Finally I got round to scanning my photos and I have selected a few of them to put into a page about my vacation on the Nile: http://adinfinitum.de/Egypt09/
:
: WOW!!!! I live a couple of miles from the "Luxor" here in Vegas, but it's nowhere near as cool as the one in your album! LOL!
: Seriously, Bernard. Incredible images of Amazing paces. Thanks. And Good Job on the behind-the-lens work, Bro. I saw my Mom's pics from her trip to Egypt from last year, & I LOVE MY MOM, but they didn't do the Majesty of the place Justice. Looks like you captured some of that.....thanks for the beautiful pictures.
: PEACE............................Jay
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Bernhard: Pictures from Nile Cruise (24. Mar. 2009 21:55)
 : thats's very very nice!!!! would like to go there too now ;-)

It's a good way to escape the cold weather here ...

: Did you find some skateparks over there??

No. If I had, I would have taken pictures for sure! But I also have to admit that I didn't go exploring on my own but stayed with Abdul, our tour guide. You can see him on some of the pictures!
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ireNe: Pictures from Nile Cruise (25. Mar. 2009 12:51)
 : Finally I got round to scanning my photos and I have selected a few of them to put into a page about my vacation on the Nile: http://adinfinitum.de/Egypt09/

you have captured what looks like an incredible place to be. beautiful photographs...must be breathtaking and mindboggling thinking about what it took to build such structures. it looks hot. how was the weather?
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Bernhard: Pictures from Nile Cruise (25. Mar. 2009 13:01)
 : you have captured what looks like an incredible place to be. beautiful photographs...must be breathtaking and mindboggling thinking about what it took to build such structures.

It was quite an achievement for the old Egyptians, considering what means they had on their disposal. Only yesterday I looked up in a book about the Karnak temple how they erected their obelisks. The structure to enable this was by far bigger that the obelisk itself and built from bricks made out of Nile mud. They still use such brick for building today!

: it looks hot. how was the weather?

Often above 30 degrees Celsius. But it got quite cool in the night (below 10 degrees) so the swimming pool on the sun deck always was very refreshing. ;-)
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claudine: Pictures from Nile Cruise (25. Mar. 2009 14:16)
 We learned they had simple carts and rolled them up one at a time. Lots of work back then! Pretty amazing what they could do with very little.

: : you have captured what looks like an incredible place to be. beautiful photographs...must be breathtaking and mindboggling thinking about what it took to build such structures.
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: It was quite an achievement for the old Egyptians, considering what means they had on their disposal. Only yesterday I looked up in a book about the Karnak temple how they erected their obelisks. The structure to enable this was by far bigger that the obelisk itself and built from bricks made out of Nile mud. They still use such brick for building today!
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: : it looks hot. how was the weather?
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: Often above 30 degrees Celsius. But it got quite cool in the night (below 10 degrees) so the swimming pool on the sun deck always was very refreshing. ;-)
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Bernhard: Pictures from Nile Cruise (25. Mar. 2009 14:25)
 : We learned they had simple carts and rolled them up one at a time. Lots of work back then! Pretty amazing what they could do with very little.

But one obelisk at a time is still a much bigger feat than one big boulder at a time. And the erection of such a spire (it really is one piece!) is mind-boggling!



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ireNe: Pictures from Nile Cruise (25. Mar. 2009 16:44)
 : : We learned they had simple carts and rolled them up one at a time. Lots of work back then! Pretty amazing what they could do with very little.
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: But one obelisk at a time is still a much bigger feat than one big boulder at a time. And the erection of such a spire (it really is one piece!) is mind-boggling!
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imagine if they chose to erect structures to skate!
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biffsk8er: Pictures from Nile Cruise (25. Mar. 2009 19:42)
 : imagine if they chose to erect structures to skate!

I'd be up for skating it!!
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