Ribbons of gold by Michael Gimenez Rodriguez de vera

Ribbons of gold by Michael Gimenez Rodriguez de vera

Hello Everyone, This photo was taken at the beginning of a recognition walk. I started the hike at dawn because I wanted to witness sunrise in the village before hiking up. The next morning would have to start in the dark in order to get to the summit for dawn. Only the roosters, dogs and horses were awake and behind the secular church light started rising so I got myself in an elevated point and start the shooting cession. It’s a multiple exposure photo. The surrounding of the village is amazing and the church is a simple medieval church dated to the 9th or 10th century. The scene is clearly a backdrop shot with the 5,193 meter-high summit on the background. The church is surrounded by low stone wall and defended by a Svan tower standing on its west end. Same kind of towers already presented in some of my earlier publications. According to a local legend, the church was the scene of the murder of the nobleman who sought to impose his rule on the free people of the region. The legend has it that the entire village helped pull a cord attached to the trigger of a musket, thus dividing equally the responsibility for killing the man. Cheers!

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