KYRENIA HARBOUR: a super panorama picture..!

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 20:11

See the famous harbour of Kyrenia through the camera of the Dutch photographer Bo de Visser: a super panorama photo from a couple of days ago!

Click this link and be patient till the file has loaded. Experiment with the buttons in the picture to navigate or just watch...

▶ [ http://is.gd/9MO7HR/Kyrenia_harbour_super_panorama_photo ].

flightholiday


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 20:25

Your back!

flightholiday


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 20:26

OK Hans - someone had to state the obvious! Nice one

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 20:28

Dear Hans,



This panorama is heavenly!



My thousand thanks to you and darling Bo!

xx xx



Clarissa

spider


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 20:54

Thank you Hans for a wonderful view and welcome back..



So wish that I could post something like this on my facebook for all my friends and family around the world to see.





Spider,X

Roley


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:11

Msg 1:Excellent, but my Panorama photo taken with my brownie box camera Model 127 in black and white in 1957 is better (in my opinion ) as a).The harbour is not cluttered up with too many boats.b).The history of the scene shown is there for all to see.

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:14

Re : Msg6,



Can we see it please?

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:26

Hans. The + and - buttons do not seem to work!

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:34

@ msg 6, Roley: If you upload your picture from 1957 I'll reply with a picture from Kyrenia harbour dated 1878 - the first Kyrenia harbour photograph in history (taken by a British photographer). Hardly any boats at all and only history... To be honest: I think you can only compare the quality of photographs when they are taken on (almost) the same spot and date and under (almost) the same circumstances.

kavenkoy


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:37

thanks for that hans ,fantastics



would love to see 1957 shot also



kav

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 21:42

@ msg 8, No1Doyen: Is your (browser) software up-to-date, Bill (including the latest versions of Java and Flash)?

Roley


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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 22:31

Msg:7 and Msg 9:I will consult my computer expert and will advise shortly.Hans the oldest photographs i have seen showed Kyrenia harbour having a small beach and ladies wearing bonnets and Victorian dresses playing with their children.I will check out these photographs this weekend and the date they were taken ,which is shown, and report back.Hans i would agree with you that to compare photographs the same (or simular) circumstances need to apply.

denizen



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Message Posted:
19/04/2011 23:51

Excellent, but my Panorama photo taken with my brownie box camera Model 127 in black and white in 1957 is better (in my opinion ) as a).The harbour is not cluttered up with too many boats.b).The history of the scene shown is there for all to see.



You show me yours Roley and I'll show you mine

shrimp


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011

How I love this place...............thank you for sharing ...........x

janjin



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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 00:02

Hello Hans

Thank you for the picture.

We have just travelled back from Cyprus and it made me feel (holiday) home sick.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 10:30

@ msg 12, Roley: When the British Empire leased Cyprus from the Ottoman Sultanate (1878, an interesting and complicated story but not relevant here) imo some very important decisions were made. First of all a certain Captain H.H. Kitchener (later Lord Kitchener) was ordered to map Cyprus - the result is still stunning and impressive. Secondly a photographer (I'll find his name in my archive later) was ordered to photograph daily life in Cyprus. Again, a stunning and impressive series!

There are more than 130 years between the picture in my message # 1 and the two pictures I'll show you now (a present from my Cypriot Turkish friend M.) - I hope you'll all enjoy. Remember the pics next time you walk in Kyrenias ancient harbour..!

▶ [ http://is.gd/udVNbn/Kyrenia_in_1878 ].

dippersgirl



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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 10:44

Enjoyed the fabulous panorama, but being keen on history, I loved the old ones even more, hope we can see more of them. I suspect you got lots squirreled away in your archive.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 11:09

The countries where the pano picture in msg 1 was seen* (until April 20, 2011, 11 am):

▶ [ http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/stats_kyr_harbour_2011.jpg ].



* Turkey including Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Clarissa2


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Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
20/04/2011 11:52

Re : Msg16,



DearDC,



Thank you for the pictures, how very intriguing!



It is interesting to see that the general shabbiness and neglect were in vogue in 1878 too.



Clarissa

TopTen


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 11:59

Brilliant DC

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 12:30

I've now linked the web pages so you can easily jump from page to page.

Start here: ▶ [ http://is.gd/9MO7HR/Kyrenia_harbour_in_2011_super_panorama_photo ].

Or here: ▶ [ http://is.gd/udVNbn/Kyrenia_harbour_in_1878 ].

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 18:55

Amazing! The countries where the pano picture in msg 1 was seen* (until April 20, 2011, 7 pm, Cyprus time):

▶ [ http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/stats_kyr_harbour_2011_2.jpg ].

* Turkey including Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 20:08

More nostalgia: Kyrenia Harbour in 1950...:

▶ [ http://www.allcrusades.com/bb/01/11/tekst_3.html

charlotte55


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Posts: 302

Message Posted:
20/04/2011 20:25

Thank you so much for this and also the sunset

I am away just now and I miss it so much

Charlotte x

iceman


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Message Posted:
20/04/2011 23:19

Hans

At least give some credit to the photographers of the "nostalgic" photos you post.!!!



Msg 16 photo by John Thomson

Msg 23 photo by Heigaz Mangoian



You can ask me the ones you dont know.. ;)

JohhnyLee


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Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
21/04/2011 04:56

Great Panoramic picture, and its the first photo of the Harbour I have seen that shows my boat.



Good Work Han's.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
21/04/2011 09:41

@ msg 25, iceman: You are right - done.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
21/04/2011 10:30

The countries where the pano picture in msg 1 was seen* (until April 21, 2011, 10.30 am):



▶ [ http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/stats_kyr_harbour_2011_3.jpg ].



* Turkey including Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
23/04/2011 10:15

@ msg 6 & 12, Roley: If you need some help to scan or upload your picture let me know and we'll find a way to do it.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is eager to view your photograph!

Clarissa2


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Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
23/04/2011 10:50

Re : Msg 29,



Yes, I would like to see Roley's picture too.



Dear DC, I think it would be also nice if we could have a link in this thread to the engraving of Kyrenia Castle and Harbour in 1879 by Tristram Ellis .

What do you think?

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
23/04/2011 11:10

@ msg 30, Clarissa2: I agree, but this is all I can find in my site at the moment: "ELLIS, Tristram James - Thirteen Etchings of the views & places of interest in Cyprus. London, 1879. This is the whole collection of thirteen plates etched by Ellis, all in frames. 4 frames by 3 plates each and another smaller with a girl weaving. The Ellis work is considered the first work by a famous artist depicting people and places after the 1878 annexation of Cyprus by the British. They are well executed in excellent contrast bearing the inscription Tristram Ellis, 1879. This is a very important and scarce work in a small edition. Ellis, an accomplished artist, visited Cyprus with the start of the British Administration."

And this URL: ▶ [ http://www.allcrusades.com/bb_webpages_03/06_tristram_ellis/tekst.html ].

But not his Kyrenia etching..!

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
23/04/2011 14:26

Here's how the great British artist Tristram Ellis saw Kyrenia harbour in 1879:

▶ [ http://www.allcrusades.com/bb/01/15/tekst.html ].

Thank you, Clarissa2!

Clarissa2


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Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
23/04/2011 20:23

Re : Msg 31&32,



DC,



Thank you for uploading it.



These days it is very difficult to find even the prints or images of Ellis's engravings - they are all in private collections.

Turtle


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Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
23/04/2011 20:50

Fascinating pictures Hans.....many thanks for sharing them with us.



Excuse my ignorance but in the 1950 picture it shows the harbour at low tide, do we not get a low tide anymore or has the water level been "engineered" to stay high ?