Let us Honour The Mother of Light - a photo on Flickriver

            This is a digital-art image in order to honour and pictorially magnify the Mother of Light, aka “Theotokos” (Greek for “Blessed Virgin Mary” or “Madonna” or “Our Lady”): In Greek Orthodox Church the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on the 21st day of November (feast day).

The final digital art image is based upon a high dynamic range shot of the life-size mosaic icon created in AD 1283. The icon depicts Theotokos holding the Lord infant on Her right side (“Dexiokratousa”). The mosaic is part of the marble iconostasis of the 13th-century Byzantine church at Porta-Panagia (near Trikala), Greece.

The shot was inspired by liturgical texts of Theotokos' feast day such as the following odes:

—“Let us honour and magnify in song the Theotokos and the Mother of light.”

—“I shall open my mouth and it shall be filled with the Spirit; and I shall pour out a word to the Queen and Mother; and I shall be seen cheerfully celebrating; and rejoicing, I shall sing of her miracles.”

Taken on: November 5, 2022

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Camera: Canon EOS R5, f/6.3, 1/30 sec, 24mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R5
Lens:	24mm F1.4 DG HSM \| Art 015
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 24.0 (Macintosh)
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