Silk Road: Samarqand, a photo from Samarkand, Est

Photographer's Note

Travel on the Silk Road from Toshkent to Kashgar:
I end the presentation of Samarqand, the all-important hub on the Silk Road for thousands of years, with this Mausoleum for Kutlug Aka, built around 1360. It consitutes one of many structures along the mausoleum road, called Shah-i-Zinda. The mausoleum road developed under the Timurids into an architectural testing ground. The celebration of ceramic art makes Shah-i-Zinda a street of superlatives. Look at the carved and glazed tiles!

There was a glare in the upper right corner that I stamped over in Photoshop. Slight sharpening after size reduction, and reducing the brilliant parts by 12% were the other manipulations.

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daddo (28748) 2007-09-27 3:03

Hi Dietrich.Always a pleasure to see such colours and craftsmanship. Thanks for bringing such beauty to our attention. Regards. Klaudio.

Buin (42580) 2007-09-27 3:33

Hallo Dieter!
Was soll man da noch sagen...!? Du weißt, was ich von Deinen Bildern und dem "wie" Deiner Reise halte. Dies hier ist einfach wieder nur wunderschön und eindrucksvoll und in Verbindung mit dem Kommentar ein toller TE-Beitrag.
Grüße aus dem triefnassen Siegen!
Frank

marjan (7) 2007-09-27 5:20