Showing posts with label Zabbar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zabbar. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

In Dreams

Zabbar, Malta

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." Oscar Wilde

The first impression I got when I see this photograph was 'dreams'. Not the kind we experience while we are awake, but the actual dreams that we experience while we are asleep. The blue border contrasted with the dark background and a lighter sky all for some weird reason or another remind me of a dream.

The church in the photograph can be found in Zabbar. While it's not one of the nicest churches in Malta, I believe there is something around it that makes it all worthwhile to visit. Right in front of the main door (which is the lower middle one in the photograph) there is a street that stretches almost 1km straight down (0.6 miles.) While I have never seen this myself I have heard it several times. If you are standing at the very edge of the street and the main door of the church is open, you can see the altar. The main church door is right in the center of the street and seeing it from a distance is quite impressive.

Even though it slightly resembles (I repeat, slightly) Red Square in Moscow, this church has basically nothing similar to the Kremlin. It's the effects I used on Hipstamatic that are making it look alike.

For this photo I used my iPhone 3G with the Hipstamatic app. Settings were random and I don't really remember what type I used.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

The Gate II

Zabbar, Malta

Notre Dame Gate in Zabbar, Malta
"In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything." Cat Stevens

Today I am posting my 90th photograph...the 90th photograph of a journey that started exactly three months ago. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my subscribers and viewers as without you I wouldn't have made it to almost 11,000 views in three months.

Anyway the photograph of today is the second photograph I am posting of the Notre Dame Gate that is found in Zabbar, Malta. The first photograph was of the Gate that is right in the center of this structure. The photo and more historical information can be found on my first post which can be found here.

This photograph was captured on my iPhone using the Hipstamatic app. Some minor editing was done in PS CS4. Settings for Hipstamatic were BlacKeys B&W/Lucifer IV