Temple of Debod

RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
edited June 21, 2006 in Holy Macro
The Temple of Debod was built in Egypt by the Nubians somewhere between 200 and 400 BC. It would have been destroyed by the Aswan Dam project, and was moved to Madrid in 1968 in gratitude for Spanish assistance on that project. It looks a little out of place here, but is rather cool.

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  • deeyadeeya Registered Users Posts: 147 Major grins
    edited June 20, 2006
    Beautiful
    Reminds me of pictures old pix my parents took in Egypt and Turkey... I love this kind of old stuff.. :)

    I really like the first shot...

    Great job!
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited June 20, 2006
    Rsinmadrid
    The photos are nice but - excuse me - your avatar ...
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited June 20, 2006
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    The Temple of Debod was built in Egypt by the Nubians somewhere between 200 and 400 BC. It would have been destroyed by the Aswan Dam project, and was moved to Madrid in 1968 in gratitude for Spanish assistance on that project. It looks a little out of place here, but is rather cool.
    Thanks for looking. C&C always welcome.

    Cheers,

    Wow........thats nice to know they didn't destroy it, so you got a little bit of Egypt in Madrid now hu :D how cool is that...... Skippy (Australia)

    Love that Third Shot thumb.gif
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited June 21, 2006
    The third shot does it for me as well, and it looks like you took it early or late in the day -very nice warm light!
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
    edited June 21, 2006
    deeya wrote:
    Reminds me of pictures old pix my parents took in Egypt and Turkey... I love this kind of old stuff.. :)

    I really like the first shot...

    Great job!

    Glad you liked it, Denise. thumb.gif

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
    edited June 21, 2006
    Antonio Correia wrote:
    but - excuse me - your avatar ...
    Thanks to George Fillmore, my egg shot got a second 15 minutes of fame, so I decided to have a bit of fun. The grim expression came from having to use a tripod. rolleyes1.gif
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
    edited June 21, 2006
    Dalantech wrote:
    The third shot does it for me as well, and it looks like you took it early or late in the day -very nice warm light!
    Thanks Skippy and Dalantech. I like #1 and #3 best. I only included #2 so you could get a better idea of what the thing looks like. I was shooting at around 9:30 in the morning...mainly to avoid the hordes of tourists that show up when the place opens at 10. The buses were arriving just as I was leaving. :D
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited June 21, 2006
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Thanks to George Fillmore, my egg shot got a second 15 minutes of fame, so I decided to have a bit of fun. The grim expression came from having to use a tripod. rolleyes1.gif
    rolleyes1.gifrofl
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited June 21, 2006
    Richard these are great thanks for sharing past
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
    edited June 21, 2006
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Richard these are great thanks for sharing past

    Glad you liked them, Awais.
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