In the red oasis-2 Photo

Photographer’s Note

Another picture from "The red oasis" – Timimoun in the Algerian desert, approximately 1.000 km southwest of the capital Algiers.
Timimoun has got its nickname for obvious reasons: almost every house is plastered with locally produced red mud.
This picture from a journey in 1975 was scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

JanD, LeeLoo, saxo042, dareco, bukitgolfb301, fanni, jlbrthnn, ellelloo trouve(nt) cette note utile

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JanD (15031) 2009-05-12 2:10

Howdy Holmertz!
Amazing oasis. Excellent scene. Superb colors, very good saturation. Original image.
Regards.

LeeLoo (5232) 2009-05-12 2:51

Dear Gert Holmertz!
Wonderful colors.
Good saturation.
Very good point of view.
Original composition.
Very interesting place.
TFS!

jasmis (50901) 2009-05-12 3:11

Atractive presentation in real African colours.
I can feel the heat of the sand.

Regards.

saxo042 (16182) 2009-05-12 3:24

Hej Gert,
In this picture of this red oasis, you have added a blue detail as the eye-catcher! (There seems to be a red dressed man in the background, but he is hardly visible). This place must have looked the same for eons, a very interesting photo!
Hälsningar
Gunnar

dareco (17104) 2009-05-12 12:24

Very nice colors and textures!! Good lighting and detail. A very interesting scene. TFS

bukitgolfb301 (4907) 2009-05-12 13:54

Hello again my dear Gert

Great photo.
Chocolate basis color is very thick and good atmosphere. Kodachrome color is very mild indeed.

Thanks for sharing and best regards,

Takero

fanni (8811) 2009-05-12 14:44

Hej Gert,
excellent quality of the scan! I wish I had had such good colour films some 30 years ago when photography was my main hobby besides writing...
the man wearing bright blue clothes catches attention at once - he seems to be the key figure among this Kingdom of "red mud"! Interesting documentary and historical photo. And again, I see these very curiously shaped buildings!
Kindest regards,
Elena

emka (22177) 2009-05-12 16:55

Hi Gert, Splendid place this red oasis. Fantastic colour contrasts. Such exotic view with the camels. Nice green accent.

Regards

Malgorzata

hispic (7399) 2009-05-12 20:40

Hello Gert,
Rendition of film is great, indeed! This high color saturation and high contrast of Kodachrome is truly pleasant. This image has an excellent quality exceeding recent digital cameras despite old film. These archives seems your treasures.
Regards, Hisashi

jlbrthnn (38775) 2009-05-13 3:07

Hello Gert,
The image typical, and is tallied in a very attractive way. The colors ocher are superb. The details and the life are pleasant to contemplate. A work very quite carried out and interesting. Cheer.
Have a nice day.
Cordially
Joël

nwoehnl (120) 2009-05-13 8:02

Hi Gert. Fine quality you managed to pull off in this Kodachrome scan of a photo that you took when I was 8 years old :-O Good vertical crop to focus on the characteristic setting with the people and camels traversing in front of the re-e-e-d architecture. Fine rendition of the local atmosphere, very good.

nirvana73 (8826) 2009-05-13 10:05

Hello Gert
great colors and light
i like walking territorial people an the road
good compostion
thanks for sharing and explanations
best regards
Ozhan

Waylim (11093) 2009-05-13 13:14

Hello Gert,
Another really good image from you archive. It nice to see how thing has or has not changed in this part of the world, while we have changed form film to digital age. Sure the clarity of the image will never be the same, but the essence of the place is even more authentic and true. It is under vallued this classic film image. thanks
Way

mafegan (4429) 2009-05-13 20:12

Hi Gert
Obviously very good lighting with the brilliant blue sky contrasting against the rich red buildings. The redness seems almost unreal - in saying this part of Australia's Northern Territory is known as the red centre. Tfs, Marlene

ellelloo (4923) 2009-05-13 21:25

Hej Gert,
You have again picked up a gem from your treasure box of old Kodachrome slides! Great colour contrast. The man dressed in blue is a good eye-catcher in this read oasis. A good TE contribution! TFS!
Hälsningar,
Lasse

Bluejeans (32945) 2009-06-02 5:34

Ola Gert,
Linda esta imagem com estas casas em tons de vermelho e laranja , ficou magnifico este primeiro plano com estes camelos e o dono vestido de azul , bom enquadramento da foto ,paranbéns!!
Um abraço Gonçalo

horatiuTT (4566) 2009-07-02 1:54

remarcable view Gert,well done
Horatius