Panorama (B&W) of the Suleymamiye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

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According to Wikipedia, the Süleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey and is the largest mosque in the city, and one of the best-known sights of Istanbul. The mosque was built on the order of Sultan Süleyman (Süleyman the Magnificent), who was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of the architectural genius of Mimar Sinan, The construction work began in 1550 and was finished in 1558. This "vast religious complex called the Süleymaniye blended Islamic and Byzantine architectural elements. It combines tall, slender minarets with large domed buildings supported by half domes in the style of the Byzantine church Hagia Sophia, which the Ottomans had converted into the mosque of Aya Sofya. Like the other imperial mosques in Istanbul, the mosque itself is preceded by a monumental courtyard (seen here) on its west side. The courtyard at the Süleymaniye is of exceptional grandeur with a colonnaded peristyle with columns of marble, granite and porphyry. At the four corners of the courtyard are the four minarets, a number only allowable to mosques endowed by a sultan (princes and princesses could construct two minarets; others only one). The main dome is 174 feet (53 m) high and has a diameter of 90 feet (27.5 m). At the time it was built, the dome was the highest in the Ottoman Empire, when measured from sea level, but still lower from its base and smaller in diameter than that of Hagia Sophia.
The two original constituent images were shot in color and then converted into black and white using Abobe Camera Raw (included with Photoshop CS6). The panorama was then constructed using Photoshop CS6 to stitch together vertically the two landscape oriented images.

Panorama (B&W) of the Suleymamiye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

Taken in: Turkey / Mercan (show map)

Taken on: October 3, 2013

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Sets appears in: • 2013 - Athens & Istanbul • B&W Development of Color Images

Camera: Nikon D800, f/4.0, 1/4000 sec, 10mm (=15mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800
Lens:	10.0-20.0 mm f/3.5
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	1/4000 sec
Focal Length:	10mm (35mm equivalent: 15mm)
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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