Expedition Persia and Middle-East pt II, in monochrome

[GSPeP]

Excellent pictures of a great trip. Not many of us will be able to do such a adventure.

Thanks for sharing them.

 

[Barrie]

Margus,
Along with all the others I thank you for sharing your pictures with us, they are terrific.
I was trying to see what sort of camera you used, Mir, I found some 35mm on line which look a bit like Contax or early Leicas but I did not find a photo of MF Mirs, is it like an early Hasselblad?
35mm lens is amazing, I presume you use a red filter for the mono, where does it fit on the 35mm fish eye front or back?
You should get these shot up in an exhibition some where, try the Photographers Gallery in London, your shots are right up their street.
http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?latest
all the best,
Barrie.

 

[Tsiklonaut]

Some more B&W film shots from the expedition...

Breakfast time in Romania

Typical roads in Romania - some holes half a metre deep. Better take spare pair of front forks with you and have life-insurance done

The gipsy children we met in the mountain village...

The Tatra mountains

Khaju bridge in Esfahan, Islamic Rep. of Iran

Imam mosque in Esfahan. Check the detailedness of the building - it's even more stunning to look it close

Huge mosque in Yazd

Got authorization from the mullah ("muslim priest") to get into one of the mosques - non muslims aren't allowed into most of mosques there.

Minarets

Typical arabic hi-tec building, this one is in Yazd

Stairs into Golestan Palace, Tehran

The ceiling of the Alexander prison in Yazd - the diameter of the opening is about 6 metres, so you can imagine how big the fully symmetrical "spheric" room was...

A view to the vast Iranian plateau. Looks rather like a landscape on the Moon... Fantastic view from the first steep and high mountain slope we found

Zagros Mountains, Iran. You can see it is so hot that the far mountains dissipate into hot air - it was mostly 30 to 35 degrees Celsius heat there every bloody day, in the Dasht-e-Kavir desert there was even much more - more than +40C!

Some more close-up South-Iran deserted landscape

Takht-e-Jamshid aka Persepolis

Persian warriors

And the kings of the first country ever existed on the Planet Earth...

Iranian nomadic men play the bloody ritual fighting game at the wedding party...

Bridge in East-Turkey, built in the 15th century...

Cappadocia, Turkey

Very interesting formations and creations they had there

From inside...

Hope you like them!

Cheers, Margus (& Kariina)